Indra (film)

Indra
Directed by	B. Gopal
Produced by	C. Ashwini Dutt
Written by	Chinni Krishna Paruchuri Brothers
Starring	Chiranjeevi Sonali Bendre Arti Agarwal Mukesh Rishi Sivaji
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	V. S. R. Swamy
Editing by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Release date(s)	25 July 2002
Running time	156 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Indra (Telugu: ఇంద్ర) is a Telugu language action film directed by B. Gopal. It stars Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, and Arti Agarwal. It was dubbed into Hindi and Tamil as Indra- The Tiger and Indran respectively.

Cast

• Chiranjeevi... Indrasena Reddy / Shankar Narayana
• Arti Agarwal... Snehalatha Reddy
• Sonali Bendre... Pallavi
• Sivaji... Veera manohara Reddy
• S.P.Balasubrahmanyam....in guest role as himself.
• Mukesh Rishi... Veera Shankar Reddy
• Prakash Raj... Governor Chenna Kesava Reddy
• Puneet Issar... Shaukhat Ali Khan
• Tanikella Bharani....Valmeeki
• Mukesh Rishi....Veerayya

Plot

The film opens in a village in Andhrapradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rivals.After the funeral no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will take claim.

The film then moves to 2003 in Varanasi. Shankar Narayana is a taxi driver who has his own boat makes an honest living and is held in high regard by the members of his adopted family. During a singing competition being held in his nieces college Pallavi (Sonali Bendre) sees him and falls in love with him. She makes a plan and pretending to be an orphan starts staying with Shankar Narayana and his family. Pallavi's father is currently the governor of UP, upon finding his daughter missing carries out a search for him and discovers that she is staying with a taxi driver and his family. Enraged he goes to his house to discover that she is staying with Shankar Narayana he folds his hands and greets him and it is hinted that he knows something about Shankar Narayanas past.

Indrasen/Shankar Narayana was held in high regard in his village. He used to work for the benefit of the people. Shivraj who had murdered Indrasen's family is warned by him not to return to the village. Shivraj returns and in the ensuing battle Indrasen kills shivraj. After this his sons swear revenge on Indrasen and his remaining family. One day Indrasen saves a young boy from being run over by a truck who turns out to be the son Veer Shankarnath the eldest son of Shivraj. He is furious over the fact that his son was saved by his enemy and he kills his own son, Indrasend upon hearing this storms Shankarnaths house and confronts him. He buries the boy in the courtyard and plants a small tree over it warning the brothers that if anything were to happen to the tree he would kill all of them. Snehalatha the daughter of Shivraj sees this and falls for Indrasen and tells him that she will marry him.

The town has been suffering from draught and the govt is unable to help because the place where the reservoir can be constructed is owned by Shankarnath and his family who are not giving it up. Indrasen calls a meeting and asks them to hand over the land in exchange for whatever they want. The brothers ask for all of his property and a promise that he will leave the village and Snehalata asks Indrasen to marry him. Indrasen agrees and the reservoir is built. On the day of the wedding unknown to Snehalata her elder brother murders Indrasen's elder sisters and their husbands. In a state of rage Indrasen goes on a rampage killing three of the brothers. Snehalata swears revenge and sends ganesh to seduce Indrasen's niece.

Indrasen then returns to his village and battles his enemies. Snehalata also realizes the truth and asks Ganesh to go ahead and marry. In the end both Snehalata and Pallavi try to convince Indrasena Reddy to marry them but neither are successful as he still wants to work for the people.

Awards

• Chiranjeevi won Filmfare Best Telugu Actor Award.
• Chiranjeevi won Nandi Best Actor Award.

Crew

• Director: B. Gopal
• Writers: Chinni Krishna (story) & Paruchuri Brothers (dialogues)
• Producer: C. Ashwini Dutt
• Co-Producer: K. Sathya Saibaba
• Music: Mani Sharma
• Cinematography: V.S.R. Swamy
• Art: Ashok Kumar
• Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
• Executive Producer: C. Dharmaraju
• Choreography: Lawrence Raghavendra & Raju Sundaram
• Stunts: Vikram Dharma

Music

• Bham bham bole - Hariharan & Shankar Mahadevan

• Ammadu appachi - S. P. Balasubramanyam & Kalpana

• Radhey govinda - Udit Narayan & K. S. Chitra

• Ghallu ghallu mani - S. P. Balasubramanyam & Mallikarjun

• Dayi dayi daammaa - Kay Kay & Mahalakshmi Iyer

• Ayyo ayyo - Karthik & Usha

Release

• The film released in 258 screens,including 223 in Andhra Pradesh,30 in Karnataka,3 in Orissa and 15 in USA.

Box office

• It was the first Telugu movie to gross over Rs.200 million (Rs 20 crores).
• The film had collected a distributors' share of Rs.8.04 crores in its opening week. Its overall share was nearly Rs.32 crores.
• It had a 50-day run in 151 centres,including 9 in Karnataka and 2 in Orissa.
• It had a 100-day run in 122 centres,including 4 in Karnataka.
• It had a 175-day run in 32 centres including a 227-day run in Satyam theatre, Adoni.

Reception

This movie was one of the biggest hits in Chiranjeevi film career. Performance of Chiranjeevi was highly appreciated especially in the song "Dayi dayi daammaa" where he performed famous "Veena Step". A grand 100 day function celebrating the success of the movie was held at Vijayawada.

External links

• Indra at the Internet Movie Database

Indra at the Internet Movie Database