Kandireega
Kandireega is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy action film directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. The film stars Ram Pothineni, Hansika Motwani, Sonu Sood and Aksha Pardasany with the music scored by S. Thaman. Released on 12 August 2011, the film was a commercial success, collecting a distributor share of 22 crore at the box office. It was remade in Bengali as Paglu 2 and Hindi as Main Tera Hero. It was later dubbed into Hindi as Dangerous Khiladi 4.
Plot
Sreenu is the son of Viswanatham. He is a high school dropout in Anakapalli and wants to marry his uncle's daughter Bujji. She rejects him, stating that he doesn’t have a basic college education. Sreenu, who is clever and street-smart, decides to go to Hyderabad for further education. While traveling on the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Hyderabad, he meets Sruthi and falls in love with her. The city gangster Bhavani is in love with her and blackmails her into marrying him. He beats anyone moving closely with Sruthi. Meanwhile, henchmen of Rajanna, a dreaded chieftain from Warangal, are looking for Sreenu in the city.Sreenu meets Bhavani and forces him to a challenge, whereby, he will make Sruthi love him. Sreenu rescues Sruthi from being kidnapped by the gang of Yadayya, a rival of Bhavani. When Sreenu wins Sruthi's heart, and both of them decide to elope, she is kidnapped.
It is then revealed that Rajanna kidnapped Sruthi to get hold of Sreenu because Rajanna's daughter Sandhya is in love with Sreenu. She was on the train during the night and gets impressed by him. Sreenu lands at Rajanna's place and finds himself in a fix. Bhavani, too, arrives at Rajanna's place to take away Sruthi. A police intelligence officer, Avataram, Rajanna's brother-in-law, comes to attend Sreenu and Sandhya's wedding. Sreenu and Bhavani start their one-upmanship games to win Sruthi.
How Sreenu comes out of this quagmire to rescue Sruthi from the clutches of Rajanna and Bhavani and what happens to Sandhya are revealed in the climax interspersed with twists and turns.
Cast
- Ram Pothineni as Kandireega/Sreenu
- Hansika Motwani as Sruthi
- Sonu Sood as Bhavani
- Aksha Pardasany as Sandhya
- Giri Babu as Krishna Rao, Kandireega's father
- Chandra Mohan as Viswanatham, Sreenu's father
- Jaya Prakash Reddy as Rajanna, Sandhya's father
- Sudha as Janaki, Sandhya's mother
- Suhasini Maniratnam as Snehalatha, Kandireega's mother
- Sumithra as Amrutham, Sreenu's mother
- M. S. Narayana as Narayana, Sreenu's uncle
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Subramanyam, Sreenu's uncle
- Srinivasa Reddy as Sreenu's friend
- Raghu Babu as Intelligence Officer Avataram
- Saptagiri as Giri
- Fish Venkat as Chintu
- Sana as Lakshmi, Sruthi's mother
- Y. Kasi Viswanath as Srinivas, Sruthi's father
- Pragathi as Lalita, Sreenu's aunt
- Hema as Sujatha, Sreenu's aunt
- Rama Prabha as Subbammatta
- Brahmaji as Basava
- Praveen as Sathya, Sreenu's friend
- Brahmanandam as Bhavani
- Swati Reddy as Bujji
Production
This film was initially announced in October 2009 with Ravi Teja playing the lead role and with Krishna Vamsi as director, with the producer announcing the film as a partly fantasy venture. The film progressed in pre-production with Tamannaah Bhatia and Sneha Ullal being considered to portray the heroine role, whilst the fantasy elements in the original script were removed. In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram. The filming began in October 2010 with Ram and Hansika Motwani, whilst actress Swati Reddy shot scenes the following month. Ram stated on his Twitter account that the film had three female lead roles, and suggested that Nisha Aggarwal was signed on.During the first schedule, events on the set of the film became the reason for the Telugu film industry strikes of 2010 after Telugu film fighters attacked Tamil film technicians in Chennai on the sets of the film in December 2009. Enraged by this, producers called for a bandh the next day. However, film workers declared a strike immediately after that for an indefinite period. The crisis affected the whole film industry, and no films were shot in Andhra Pradesh during late December and early January while negotiations.
After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by S. Thaman in March 2011.