Credits
Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
Cast: Venkatesh, Charmme, Nayana Tara, Sunil, Sayaji Shinde, Pradeep Rawat, Rajiv Kanakala, Sarvanand, Sameer, Sanjay, Baljeet, Sudha, Venu Madhav, Telangana Sakuntala, Revathy, LB Sriram, Master Teja, Brahamanandham
Music: Ramana Gogula
Background Music: Mani Sharma
Story - Dialogues: Akula Siva
Cinematography: Chota K Naidu
Art Direction: Chinna
Editing: Gowtam Raju
Lyrics: Chandrabose, Kulasekhar & Vishwa
Fx supervision: RaNa daggubati
Screenplay - direction: VV Vinayak
Producer: Nallamalupu Bujji
Release date: 14th January 2006
Interesting Facts:
- Bunny cinema taravatha, VV Vinayak got offers from Nagarjuna and Prabhas. Prabhas dates konchem late ayye laa vunnayi, could wait for Nagarjuna but Rendu nelalu taravatha next year cheddam ani challaga cheppadu,
- Then he got a call from his friend Nallamalupu Bujji and said I have Venkatesh’s dates, then Bujji told Venkatesh and he also felt it would be new for me to do a movie with Vinayak and gave the green signal
- Initially the story was set in Rayalaseema faction backdrop how an elder son save his family was the story going with the trend at the time, Venkatesh liked the story but felt faction movies are getting boring, take the same line but change the backdrop. Then Vinayak and his writer Akula Siva worked on the story and finished the changes within a month and Akula siva also wrote dialogues. He wrote them in accordance with Venky’s image and wrote the story to appeal to class, family audience and mass audience and Venkatesh ki baga nachesindi
- Title should be new and they fixed Lakshmi. Casting started and initially main heroines were Aarthi Agarwal and Charmi but due to Aarthi Agarwal’s personal problems at the time she dropped out and was replaced with Nayantara marking her Telugu debut
- They appointed Mani Sharma as the music director but he was full busy at the time and couldnt compose songs but gave his word that he will compose BGM at least and then Nallamalupu Bujji gave me the offer.
- Ramana Gogula said about the music speficially am letting out a secret to you now. Generally, we give tunes to the situation in films. But for the first time, I got so much of freedom that I scored the songs first and then they customized the situations and themes to fit in these songs in Lakshmi. For example, there is no slot for Hey Satyabhama song in the film, so they created an appropriate one.
- Filming was done in Hyderabad, Rama Naidu studios 3 sets they put, Kolkata 15 days schedule, Ghatkesar they filmed some scenes in engineering college there, and then filmed songs in New Zealand,
- Within 80 working days and 12 crores budget, movie finished filming. Due to the combo craze, trade vargalo craze yeru padindi, Lakshmi sold like hot cake in all areas such that Bujji got 5 crores table profit before release
- January 14th, 2006 in 320 centers for Sankranthi, Lakshmi movie released and due to the mass posters before release, Venky fans did baari hungama and enjoyed the movie. Venkatesh acting, family sentiment and comedy entertained everybody and it became a blockbuster at the box office
- The idea of having a cartoon animation for Venu Madhav Telangana Shakuntala fght was Rana Daggubati’s idea and he worked as VFX supervisor for the movie.
- Venkatesh mass chesthe box office yela shake avuthado choopinchindi Laskhmi movie. Brought Venkatesh renewed craze in mass movie, nayantara became a star and signed Boss with Nagarjuna, Venu Madhav image got elevated again and Vinayak and Akula Shiva combo garnered a lot of craze so Lakshmi was a turning point for a lot of people who worked on the movie
- Box office details: 1st week share was 9 crores which was all time top 2 movie at the time and collected 24 crores share becoming the highest grossing movie in Venkatesh’s career at the point, was the 6th film in Telugu movie history to collect 24 crores share at the time,
- Ran for 50 days in 215 centers and and 100 days in 94 centers.
