Vikramarkudu is a 2006 Telugu action thriller film directed by S.S. Rajamouli. Ravi Teja and Anushka Shetty play the lead roles. Ravi Teja played a double role, for the first time, in this film and praised by big stars for his commendable performance. The film was given an 'A' certificate upon release. It released on 23 June 2006 and was a big success.
It was later remade in Tamil as Siruthai, in Bangladeshi Bengali as Ulta Palta 69, in Kannada as Veera Madakari, in Hindi as Rowdy Rathore, and in Indian Bengali as Bikram Singha.
Story
Athili Sathi Babu (Ravi Teja) is a small-time thief and crook who is crazy about acts of daredevilry who falls in love with Neeraja (Anushka Shetty) who is in Hyderabad to attend a marriage. Sathi Babu makes his way into her heart and she also starts loving him. Sathi Babu tells her the truth about him being a thief and resolves to give up crime forever. But before that, he decides to swindle one last person for a large sum of money along with his con-friend Duvva (Brahmanandam). He tricks a woman on a railway station (Not really station, it is bus stand) and flees with a trunk. This leads Sathi Babu to Neha (Baby Neha), a young girl who was in the trunk instead of the wealth he thought was in the trunk, who thinks that satibabu is her father. Flummoxed by what is happening, but forced to keep Neha with her as a police officer Inspector Mahanti (Rajiv Kanakala) keeps his eye on him.
Although he tries keeping neha away from Neeraja’s eyes, the latter finds out about Neha. Angry and hurt, Neeraja leaves for her place leaving Sathi Babu heartbroken. Soon, unknown goons attack him, taking him to be a latter named ASP Vikram Singh Rathod (also Ravi Teja), Neha’s real father. Rathod looks exactly like Sathi Babu which had caused all the confusion. While many unknown persons help Sathi Babu run to safety with Neha in his arms, he is soon surrounded by the goons. It is then that Rathod makes an appearance and saves the day killing every goon by himself. But Rathod soon dies suffering from injuries.
The other policemen who had assisted the ASP then inform Sathi Babu of the whole incident. In a village Devgarh, a MLA, Bavuji used to trouble and torture people and also annex money from them. His son Munna (Amit Kumar Tiwari) used to rape the wives of policemen. Rathod immediately arrested him and also made him mentally insane. Munna humiliates police by removing their clothes but was killed by Rathod when he was hung from a tree by the belt of a humiliated inspector. Rathod was attacked by Bavuji's brother Titla on Dusshehra where he was stabbed from the back as well as shot in the head while trying to save a village child and was assumed to be dead. But he survived with a brain injury although the goons assumed that he is dead. Effects of this brain injury are later visible and these effects are diminished by water falling on his head.
Sathi Babu then adopts Neha, who does not know that her father is dead. Then Sathi Babu returns to Devgarh posing as ASP Vikram Singh Rathod and heads to settle the scores with Bavuji. Duvva tells Neeraja the truth and she forgives satibabu. Sathi Babu, being a goon handles Bavuji well with tricks. He sets the MLA's wine factory on fire and makes the villagers rob his food store. A fight ensues in which he defeats all Bavuji's men alone. In the end, he fights with Titla on a rope bridge. Sathibabu ties the rope and cuts the rope and Titla fall to death. Sathibabu gets married to Neeraja and they leave for a new life with Neha and Duvva.
Ravi Teja as Athili Sathi Babu /ASP Vikram Singh Rathod
Anushka Shetty as Neeraja Goswami
Brahmanandam as Duvva Abbulu
Jyothika as Mrs. Rathod
Vineet Kumar as Bavuji, MLA
Ajay as Titla
Rajiv Kanakala as Inspector Mahanti
Ruthika as Sub-Inspector Razia
Amit Kumar Tiwari as Munna
Raghu Babu as Bavuji’s brother-in-law
Jaya Prakash Reddy as Home Minister
Baby Neha as Neha
Prakash Raj as DCP (Guest Appearance)
Meghna Naidu as Item number in song "Vastavaa"
Production
The shooting was disrupted by quarry workers started pelting the film’s unit with stones, damaging most of the equipment and injuring some of the film crew including director Rajamouli. The quarry workers were asked, by the quarry manager, to stop their work and leave the area, for the shooting of particular scenes. What started as a small miff between the manager and the workers escalated with the workers showering stones, even as the film crew was leaving the quarry in their vehicles. The injured crew members were admitted to Apollo hospital. Director Rajamouli suffered a hairline fracture to his hand. A formal complaint was lodged against the quarry workers and its owner.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack received very good response from the public as well as critics. The song "College Papala" (well known as Jhinta Ta Chita Chita) was reused by Sajid-Wajid in the Hindi remake of this film, Rowdy Rathore.
Tracklist
No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | |
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1. | "Dammare Damma" | Chandrabose | Tippu, K. S. Chithra, Vijji | ||
2. | "Jum Jum Maya" | M. M. Keeravani | M. M. Keeravani & Sunitha | ||
3. | "College Papala" | Ramajogayya Sastry | Jassie Gift, K. S. Chithra | 5.06 | |
4. | "Vasthava Vasthava" | Chandrabose | Anuradha Sriram | ||
5. | "Dooranga" | M. M. Keeravani | M. M. Keeravani, Ganga | ||
6. | "Jo Laali" | M. M. Keeravani | Malavika |
Directed by | S. S. Rajamouli |
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Produced by | M. L. Kumar Chowdary |
Written by | S. S. Rajamouli K. V. Vijayendra Prasad M. Ratnam |
Starring | Ravi Teja Anushka Shetty Brahmanandam Ajay Jyothika |
Music by | M. M. Keeravani |
Cinematography | Sarvesh Murari |
Editing by | Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao |
Distributed by | Sri Keerthi Creations |
Release date(s) | 23 June 2006 |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | 10 crore(US$1.7 million)[1] |
Box office | 26 crore(US$4.4 million) |
Vikramarkudu | ||||
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Soundtrack album to Vikramarkudu by M. M. Keeravani | ||||
Released | May 31, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2006 RajaNandini Recording Studio, Hyderabad | |||
Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
Language | Telugu | |||
Label | Aditya Music | |||
Producer | M. M. Keeravani | |||
M. M. Keeravani chronology | ||||
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