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Damarukam is a 2012 Telugu socio fantasy film produced by R.R Venkat on R. R. Movie Makers banner, written and directed by Srinivasa Reddy. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Anushka Shetty play the lead roles and music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film recorded as Utter flop at box office.
The film was released on 23 November 2012. Chota K. Naidu won Filmfare Award for Best Cinematographer - South. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Shiva - The Superhero 2.
The protagonist of the movie is born with a divine grace of Lord Shiva (Prakash Raj) and the boy's parents are advised to name him as Mallikarjuna as he is destined to accomplish a great work. During his childhood, Mallikarjuna faces a great tragedy as his parents and grandparents are killed by a huge feline creature when they are returning from Kashi. This incident leaves his younger sister, Sailu (Abhinaya) paralyzed from the waist and hence renders her lame (Sailu had a talent for dancing before this incident). This disaster makes Malli to become an atheist.
Meanwhile, the scene shifts to the focus of a demon named Andhaka asura (Ravi Shankar). We see him performing a severe penance to obtain the boon of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva blesses the demon that he will not interfere in the latter's attempt to sacrifice a virgin girl in order to obtain complete rulership over the 3 worlds. The demon is advised by his aged friend Maayi (Jeeva) that the sacrifice must be made in a month having 2 solar eclipses, in such a way that he has to marry the girl and sacrifice her before the solar eclipse ends. This will render the demon matchless and a master over all the 5 elements.
The story then shifts to Malli (Nagarjuna), now an adult whose motive is to help people and take care of his bedridden sister. He falls in love with Dr. Maheshwari (Anushka Shetty) on a visit to the hospital where his sister is being treated. There are many scenes where the atheist Malli forces the people of his colony who include Rudraksha (Brahmanandam), Ringu Raja (Raghu Babu), President (Krishna Bhagavaan) and others, not to worship, on account of his childhood tragedy. Then, on one occasion, Malli questions Lord Shiva for his condition and drives away in his car, only to meet with an accident. Lord Shiva comes and saves him. Lord Shiva calls himself as Saambayya, befriends Malli and goes to his home.
The demon chooses Dr. Maheshwari as his target for the sacrifice and prevents the Kaapaalikas (who arrive to the temple) from having access to Mahi, on the first solar eclipse day. Malli rescues Mahi from the Kaapaalikas and Mahi's parents entrust Malli to take care of Mahi. Then, Mahi's parents decide to get Mahi married to a relative, Rahul (Ganesh Venkatraman), who is to arrive from US. This advice is given by saint known to Mahi's family. On his arrival to the airport, Andhakaasura kills Rahul in the washroom and takes his form. The demon, now in Rahul's form, enters Mahi's home, and kills 3 dogs who guard Mahi. The demon also paralyzes Mahi's father, when he comes to know the truth about him. He also tires to kill Malli and Mahi, on their way to a temple, but Lord Shiva intervenes by sending his divine vehicle, Nandi who saves Malli. This infuriates the demon, who feels that Lord Shiva has not kept his promise. He challenges the Lord, to which he replies that it was his duty to protect his devotee. The demon then decides to oppose Lord Shiva, so he kills the saint known to Mahi's family, impersonates him and convinces Malli, Mahi and others that Saambayya is not a good person by faking his death at the hands to Saambayya. This makes Malli angry on Saambayya and he returns the ring of friendship given to him by Saambayya.
Finally, Malli convinces Mahi's family that Rahul is actually Andhakaasura. Then, the demon carries Mahi to the spot of sacrifice and prepares for the ritual. Meanwhile, Malli is advised by the Kaapalika chief (Avinash) to worship Lord Shiva, he tells Malli about his purpose of birth to destroy the demon and the means to do it, as he was the reason of the tragedy in Malli's Childhood and Lord Shiva saved him as Saambayya. Malli confronts the demon, is initially defeated, but he heads skyward to get a blessing from Lord Shiva and finally destroys Andhakaasura by piercing the Trident given by Lord Shiva.
Cast
Nagarjuna Akkineni as Mallikarjuna (Malli)
Anushka Shetty as Maheshwari (Mahi)
Prakash Raj as Lord Shiva / Sambayya
Ravi Shankar as Andhakasura Rakshasha
Ganesh Venkatraman as Rahul
Brahmanandam as Rudraksha
M. S. Narayana as Vankara Satyam
Devan as Vishwanadham, Maheshwari's father
Avinash
Brahmaji as Vishwanadham's brother
Sravan
Sameer as Mallikarjuna's father
Giri Babu as Mallikarjuna's grand father
Raghu Babu as Goke Ring Raju
Krishna Bhagavan as Colony President
Prithviraj as Ad film director
Kamal
Prabhu
Ramaraju
Vijaya Rangaraju
Thagubothu Ramesh as "full bottle" Vasu
Duvvasi Mohan
Jeeva as Maayi
Charmy as a item number
Pragati as Rajeshwari, Maheshwari's mother
Abhinaya as Shailu, Mallikarjuna's sister
Rajitha
Kavitha
Apoorva
Kalpana
Priya as Mallikarjuna's mother
Satya Krishnan
Lakshmi
Geetanjali as Mallikarjuna's grand mother
Aruna
Amurtha Gowri
Sruthi
Archana
Anitha
Nandini
Nansy
Master Gaurav as Young Malli
Casting[edit]
The film sees Nagarjuna and Anushka Shetty playing the leads. Ganesh Venkatraman,[7] Prakash Raj, Pradeep Rawat, Brahmanandam, Krishna Bhagavaan, Ahuti Prasad, Ali, Venu Madhav, Raghu Babu, M.S. Narayana and Jeeva are in the cast. Editing is by Gauthgautamam Raju, art is by Ashok, cinematography is by Chota K. Naidu and music is by Devi Sri Prasad.,[8] Times of Ap reported that Lakshmi Rai was set to shake legs with Nagarjuna for the introduction song in this movie.[9] The makers then have decided to set Charmy in the place of Lakshmi Rai for the introduction song in this movie.[10] Nagarjuna had shown his six-pack abs for the first time in the movie.[11]
Filming
The shooting of the film began on 25 April 2011. The first schedule of the film was in Switzerland, where Nagarjuna would romance Anushka Shetty to the choreography of Raju Sundaram. On 29 September 2012, The theatrical trailer of this socio-fantasy film has released with the movie Rebel, which graced the theatres that day. According to the producer Dr Venkat, the trailer has received a huge response from the film goers. This movie is the first Telugu film ever with over 70 minutes of special effects. It is learnt that the movie is loaded with some of most breathtaking visual effects ever for an Indian movie and is going to set a new benchmark as far as VFx standards go in India. A team of visual effects experts at Firefly Creative Studio have been working on the movie for over a year now. Firefly, the company which worked on special effects for films like Anji, Arundathi, Magadheera & Anaganaga O Dheerudu. Vyshnavi Films purchased the overseas theatrical rights.
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