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{{short description|2019 Indian Telugu-language film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Dear Comrade
| image = Dear Comrade.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Bharat Kamma]]
| producer = Yash Rangineni
| writer =
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = [[Vijay Deverakonda]] [[Rashmika Mandanna]]
 [[Shruti Ramachandran]]
| narrator =
| music = [[Justin Prabhakaran]]
| cinematography = [[Sujith Sarang]]
| editing = Sreejith Sarang
| studio = [[Mythri Movie Makers]] Big Ben Cinemas
| distributor = Big Ben Cinemas
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2019|07|26}}
| runtime = 170 minutes<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hooli |first1=Shekhar H. |title=Dear Comrade movie review and rating: Audience fall in love with Vijay-Rashmika's chemistry again after GG |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/dear-comrade-movie-review-rating-by-audience-live-updates-802353 |access-date=28 July 2019 |work=International Business Times, India Edition |date=26 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget =
| gross = {{estimation}} {{INR}}37.33 crore<ref name="IBTDec2019"/>
}}

'''''Dear Comrade''''' is a 2019 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[romance film|romantic]] [[action drama]] film written and directed by [[Bharat Kamma]] which is produced by [[Mythri Movie Makers]] and Yash Rangineni. The film stars [[Vijay Deverakonda]], [[Rashmika Mandanna]] and [[Shruti Ramachandran]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://in.bookmyshow.com//movies/dear-comrade/ET00075421?fbrefresh=1|title=Dear Comrade Movie (2019) {{!}} Reviews, Cast & Release Date in|last=BookMyShow|website=BookMyShow|language=en|access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref> [[Principal photography]] of the film commenced in August 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/dear-comrade-shooting-for-the-vijay-devarakonda-starrer-progress-in-kakinada/articleshow/67059094.cms|title='Dear Comrade': Shooting for the Vijay Devarakonda-starrer progress in Kakinada - Times of India|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref> The film was theatrically released on 26 July 2019 in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] and along with dubbed versions in [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Malayalam]] and [[Kannada]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/regional-movies/vijay-deverakonda-reveals-dear-comrade-will-release-in-four-languages-shares-new-poster/story-4hK0n7finUccGwOnOTOoeM.html|title=Vijay Deverakonda reveals Dear Comrade will release in four languages, shares new poster|date=8 March 2019|website=hindustantimes|language=en|access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="NIE">{{cite news |title=Dear Comrade will not see Hindi version |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/telugu/2019/jul/13/dear-comrade-will-not-see-hindi-version-2003232.html |access-date=15 July 2019 |work=New Indian Express |date=13 July 2019}}</ref>

== Plot ==
{{Long plot|date=September 2019}}
The movie begins with Bobby, aka Chaitanya Krishna, heavily drunk, dejected, and angry. He is unable to come to terms with the fact that his girlfriend Lilly doesn't want him in her life anymore.

The story now goes into flashback mode, where Bobby is a leftist student union leader at a college in [[Kakinada]] that deals with severe anger management issues. He's a rebel without a cause, like his grandfather Comrade Suryam. He fights with a local politician, Bulliah's brother, due to whom a girl from his college attempts suicide on repeated torture from him to reciprocate his love. He even spends a night in the lock-up with his friends over this. While returning, he runs into Lilly, aka Aparna Devi, who causes him a minor accident, and as compensation, Bobby takes away all her money to fix his bike. He returns home and gets to know that Lilly was, in fact, his childhood friend, (cousin of his neighbour's daughter Jaya) who has come to attend Jaya's wedding. Lilly keeps heartily teasing Bobby over his earlier infatuation with Jaya. During a local cricket match, Bobby discovers that Lilly is, in fact, a state-level cricket player. He gets thoroughly impressed by her and slowly starts to fall for her. During a small party held in the union office to celebrate their team's victory, Lilly sees Bobby getting into a heated argument with a student political leader, and despite her requests to walk away from it, Bobby engages in a fistfight. Lilly realises that Bobby has anger management issues and tries to tell him to handle and resolve conflicts internally rather than enter into fights with others. She also reveals that she had a brother who had lost his life a few years back in a college campus clash and that Bobby's campus fights brought back those painful memories.

During Jaya's marriage, Bobby confesses his love for Lilly. But she tells him that the two of them have different life paths to journey and that he'll probably forget her as soon as she goes away. Bobby isn't able to handle this rejection, and Lilly leaves without bidding goodbye to him. After she leaves, Bobby can't stop thinking about her and rides all night to [[Hyderabad]] to meet her and tell her that he wants to be her comrade in her life's journey. Confessing that she, too, has been thinking a lot about him, she reciprocates his feelings. But Lilly tells Bobby how she is scared of him due to his excessive aggression, but he calls it a minor issue and agrees to rectify it for her. Their love affair progresses passionately until one fateful day when Bobby is drawn into a fight with Bulliah's brother's gang yet again and unknowingly causes the accident of Bulliah's brother, who slips into [[Coma]]. Bulliah gets angered and tells his men to kill Bobby, and he gets seriously injured during the encounter with Bulliah's men inside his college campus, with Lilly witnessing everything and forced to go through the trauma of losing a loved one once again. When he wakes up in the hospital, Lilly starts advising and entreating him to give up his violent tendencies for the peace of mind of his loved ones. She gives him an ultimatum to choose immediately to either control his anger and continue to be with her or leave her forever. Bobby loses his temper at this demand since he feels nobody is willing to listen to his side of things and, in a fit of rage, pushes Lilly out of the hospital and tells her to get lost in front of family and friends.

Bobby later realises his mistake and tries to reach out to Lilly, but she asks him not to disturb her anymore and let her move on for good and focus on her career. He gets heart-broken and, on the advice of his grandfather, leaves home to travel and find his inner peace and true comrade self. He eventually joins a group of people who are working on a project on [[Sound healing]]. Three years after he had left home, Bobby and the team go to Hyderabad to meet a doctor to showcase their work, and while in the waiting hall, he sees Jaya and her husband. They ask him whether he came to visit Lilly in the hospital. That's when Bobby gets to know that Lilly had met with an accident during the day of National Selection and is sad and agitated upon seeing her condition in the psychiatric ward. He sneaks her out of the hospital and takes her on a road trip to Kerala to heal her both physically and emotionally. Her leg heals, and she slowly appears to return to her former cheerful self. He drops her back at her house and runs into the doctor who had been treating her. The doctor warns him that she may appear to be happy outside, but she has hidden pain inside. Bobby dismisses this, and as he leaves Lilly, he gives her his [[Digital voice recorder]] to listen to if at all she feels that she is in pain. Bobby and Lilly are then invited to their common friends’ marriage, where Lilly is visibly impressed by Bobby's newfound maturity enabling him to effortlessly forgive and party with Bulliah's brother and his gang. She asks Bobby to marry her since she's eager to start a life with him. But Bobby states that there is no urgency for their marriage and instead asks her to focus on her career goals now that she's physically fit. To his surprise, Lilly reveals that she has left cricket for good. She is angry at Bobby for persistently forcing her to go back to her cricketing life and walks away. Lilly increasingly feels that Bobby has forgotten the passionate love he once had for her. At the same time, Bobby starts to wonder why Lilly has suddenly lost all passion for cricket.

One day, Bobby spots Lilly's former teammate and friend Rubina, who now works in a tailoring shop. She tells Bobby the whole truth of what transpired in Lilly's life after he had left. During a high-profile tournament, Lilly's team won the cup, and she was also named the “best player”. The chief-guest and presenter of the awards, Ramesh Rao, who is a south-zone selector for BCCI, lusts for Lilly. He meets with Lilly in his office the next day and demands her to sleep with him to get selected for the national team. Lilly is visibly shaken and reduced to tears by this demand. Still, she refuses to lodge any complaint due to fear of confrontation, despite entreaties from her good friend Rubina in whom she had confided. But Rubina complains on Lilly's behalf anyway, and getting wind of this, Ramesh Rao barges into their change-room and physically assaults both Lilly and Rubina. Lilly, who gets even more shaken and distressed due to this incident, meets with an accident shortly afterwards while crossing the road in a daze. Due to her fractured leg and the sexual assault of Ramesh Rao, Lilly was now severely scarred mentally and slipped into psychological breakdown and depression. On finally coming to know of all this through Rubina, Bobby gets furious and beats Ramesh Rao black and blue with his comrade friends. He then comes to Lilly and breaks down in front of her apologising for ever having left her. Lilly is unaware of the reason for this sudden confession but is heartened by the fact that some of his old passion for her has returned. But Bobby then takes Lilly to the police station where his friends were waiting, lodging an official police complaint against Ramesh Rao on the sexual harassment incident. Lilly, suddenly realising the reason for Bobby's emotional turnaround, refuses to co-operate with his plans for taking strong punitive action against Ramesh Rao. She instead complains that everybody has only ever tried to force their own will on her while nobody has ever bothered to ask her what she really wants. Her own father had also discouraged her earlier when she told him about the incident, as he believed it would ruin the family's reputation. Her agitated father, who is now with her in the Police Station, escorts her back home away from a frustrated Bobby whose vigorous requests to her to stay back and fight for her rights like true comrades goes unheeded.

Seeing the old aggressive streak in Bobby again, Lilly is now convinced that Bobby's temperament had never really changed and that he only pities her present state rather than loving and respecting her. Despite Jaya's advice, she decides to meet up with a groom her family has arranged for her. Bobby comes into her house in the middle of this and tries to convince her one last time entreating her not to run away from her life and promising to Not to let her collapse like the comrade soviet union. But Lilly blames him for not being around when she really needed him years ago and that she now sees a future with the new groom. Much to Bobby's dismay, she tells him that she would completely forget him in a few years, just like he had done to her. A tearful Bobby leaves her place, flashing back to his life over the past few years in Ladakh, where he had attempted to find peace in life and heal his broken heart, but in vain. Lilly's memories had been with him every breath of the way. Ignorant of all this, Lilly gets confirmation of her marriage to be scheduled within the month and is suddenly consumed by the painful prospect of losing Bobby forever. She desperately reaches out for Bobby's old voice recorder that he had left for her as a hearing aid. But the recordings in it were all Bobby's own personal messages to her over their years of separation that revealed his passionate and undying love for Lilly. She is ecstatic, but it is soon cut short by the news that the video footage of Bobby assaulting Ramesh Rao has gone viral, and the media has now made it a national issue. Lilly and her family are now firmly thrust into the media's limelight. The [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] appoints a four-member committee to investigate the allegations against Ramesh Rao.

The police officer in-charge of the sexual assault investigation, who is a friend of Ramesh Rao, arrests Bobby and incarcerates him. Bobby refuses to let the hook off Ramesh Rao despite being thrashed and threatened in custody. The officer also visits Lilly's family and tries to coerce Lilly to lie in exchange for the safe release of Bobby. So in her deposition before the BCCI committee, she reluctantly states that she wasn't sexually harassed and assaulted by Ramesh Rao, despite Bobby being present there and continuously urging her to take that one last step towards justice. Bobby is severely disillusioned by Lilly's defeatist stance and gives up the fight for justice. He apologises for all the trouble he has caused to everyone. He lies that he did all this out of some personal vengeance against Ramesh due to his anger management issues and that he only knew Lilly as a neighbour's distant relative and had seen her just a few times. This hurts Lilly badly, and she tries to hold onto Bobby while he was being escorted back by the police. But he tearfully pushes her away, stating that their journeys are so different that they can never meet. Ramesh Rao then goes on to insult both Bobby and Lilly in the court and demands an apology from Lilly for false allegations and defaming him and says that this was all just a cheap publicity stunt used by a mediocre player like her. Lilly, enraged by this and already hurt by Bobby's crestfallen lies, attacks Ramesh Rao in front of the committee and angrily confesses that he had indeed sexually harassed and assaulted her, abusing his position as a selector. She swears to Ramesh Rao that she would not only break into the national team but also captain it one day. Bobby gets to watch all this from the sidelines unseen by Lilly and is delighted to see the return of the passionate cricketer in her. Later, when questioned by the media outside, Lilly faces them fearlessly and says that every woman should have a [[Comrade]] who supports her in her journey and instills courage in her to fight for her rights. She then desperately seeks out Bobby and tells him that she finally overcame her fears to nail Ramesh Rao and even beat him up in front of everyone. Bobby smilingly reveals that he did witness Aparna Devi coming to her own. Lilly then forces Bobby to take back his earlier hurtful statements as to their journeys being different. A beaming Bobby does so, and the two lovers reunite, having finally embraced their true selves. During the [[Closing credits|credits roll]], Bobby drops Lilly at the [[National Cricket Academy]] and gives her a fist-bump reaffirming that she is his true comrade.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Vijay Devarakonda]] as Chaitanya "Bobby" Makineni
* [[Rashmika Mandanna]] as Aparna "Lilly" Devi
* [[Shruti Ramachandran]] as Jaya, Lilly's cousin
* [[Raj Arjun]] as Ramesh Rao
* [[Suhas]] as Martin
* Vikas as Raghu
* Divya Sripada as Anitha, Raghu's girlfriend
* [[Charuhasan]] as Bobby's grandfather
* [[Anand (actor)|Anand]] as Bobby's father
* Kalyani Natarajan as Bobby's mother
* Pratyusha Jonnalagadda as Rubina
* [[Tulasi (actress)|Tulasi]] as Jaya's mother
* Sanjay Swaroop as Lilly's father
* Ashrita Vemuganti as Lilly's mother
* [[Srikanth Iyyengar]] as Police Officer
* [[Md Azimul Islam Sheblu]] as Rocky
{{colend}}

==Production==

=== Development ===
In May 2018, it was reported that [[Vijay Deverakonda]] will join with debutant director Bharat Kamma for a new film.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vijay Deverakonda to star in 'Dear Comrade' directed by Bharat Kamma |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/vijay-deverakonda-star-dear-comrade-directed-bharat-kamma-81157 |access-date=18 August 2019 |work=www.thenewsminute.com |date=11 May 2018}}</ref> The first look poster of the film was unveiled on Devarakonda's birthday, 9 May 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Devarakonda starrer 'Dear Comrade's' first look is out! - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/vijay-devarakonda-starrer-dear-comrades-first-look-is-out/articleshow/64092163.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=9 May 2018|title=Vijay Deverakonda's birthday marked by Mahanati release, Dear Comrade first look and ice cream truck|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/telugu/vijay-deverakonda-birthday-mahanati-dear-comrade-first-look-ice-cream-truck-5169477/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> with the title ''Dear Comrade'', also being announced.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/vijay-devarakonda-starrer-dear-comrades-first-look-is-out/articleshow/64092163.cms|title=Vijay Devarakonda starrer 'Dear Comrade's' first look is out! - Times of India|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref> While sources claimed that the film will be a remake of Malayalam movie ''[[Comrade in America]]'' (2017) starring [[Dulquer Salmaan]] as the protagonist, the director and actor denied its connection with the movie.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vijay Deverakonda clears air on connection between 'Dear Comrade', 'Arjun Reddy' |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/entertainment/2019/07/24/Vijay-Deverakonda-clears-air-on-connection-between-Dear-Comrade-Arjun-Reddy.html |access-date=18 August 2019 |work=The Week |date=24 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Devarkonda's 'Dear Comrade' has no Mollywood connection - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/malayalam/movies/news/vijay-devarkondas-dear-comrade-has-no-mollywood-connection/articleshow/64104882.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> [[Rashmika Mandanna]], was selected to play the female lead, collaborating with Deverakonda for the second time, after ''[[Geetha Govindam]]'' (2018). Vijay Devarakonda plays the lead role of a student leader,<ref>{{Cite web|date=31 January 2019|title=Vijay Deverakonda to play student leader in 'Dear Comrade'|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/vijay-deverakonda-play-student-leader-dear-comrade-95994|access-date=31 January 2019|website=The News Minute}}</ref> while Rashmika essayed the role of a female cricketer.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rashmika Mandanna to play a cricketer in Vijay Deverakonda's 'Dear Comrade' - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/rashmika-mandanna-to-play-a-cricketer-in-vijay-deverakondas-dear-comrade/articleshow/64161262.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> After completing the pre-production work by its month end, the team planned to kickstart the film's shoot in June 2018, but was delayed further, in order to complete the shooting commitments, of the other lead actors, while the team used to finalise, other principal cast and crew. In July 2019, it was reported that [[Sai Pallavi]] was earlier chosen for the film's female lead. However, she rejected the script due to the lip-lock scenes between the lead actors.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gorgeous Sai Pallavi refused to romance Vijay Deverakonda in 'Dear Comrade' due to lip-lock scenes? - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/gorgeous-sai-pallavi-refused-to-romance-vijay-deverakonda-in-dear-comrade-due-to-lip-lock-scenes/articleshow/70259961.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

=== Filming ===
The film's pooja ceremony was launched on 2 July 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 July 2018|title=Vijay Deverakonda's Dear Comrade goes on floors|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/telugu/vijay-deverakonda-dear-comrade-goes-on-floors-see-photos-5242864/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> Apart from the film's cast and crew, [[M. M. Keeravani]] provided the first clap for the film while [[Chandra Sekhar Yeleti]] switched on the camera. Bharat handed the script to directors [[Sukumar]] and [[Koratala Siva]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's 'Dear Comrade' launched! - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/vijay-deverakonda-and-rashmika-mandannas-dear-comrade-launched/articleshow/64824118.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> Principal photography began very soon after the launch.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's 'Dear Comrade' begins shoot - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/vijay-deverakonda-and-rashmika-mandannas-dear-comrade-begins-shoot/articleshow/65302471.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> However, production further delayed, due to the actor's involvement in other projects. The film's second schedule took place in [[Kakinada]] in December 2018, after the completion of the first schedule.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Dear Comrade': Shooting for the Vijay Devarakonda-starrer progress in Kakinada - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/dear-comrade-shooting-for-the-vijay-devarakonda-starrer-progress-in-kakinada/articleshow/67059094.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> The shoot came to a halt, after Vijay faced an injury while boarding a running train, as a part of the film's scene.<ref>{{Cite web|date=19 December 2018|title=Vijay Deverakonda injured while shooting for 'Dear Comrade'|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/vijay-deverakonda-injured-while-shooting-dear-comrade-93640|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The News Minute|language=en}}</ref> The actor also suffered from fever and exhaustion,<ref>{{Cite web|last1=ChennaiMarch 22|first1=India Today Web Desk|last2=March 22|first2=2019UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2019 12:14|title=Arjun Reddy star Vijay Deverakonda hospitalised due to exhaustion|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/regional-cinema/story/arjun-reddy-star-vijay-deverakonda-hospitalised-due-to-exhaustion-1483748-2019-03-22|access-date=18 November 2020|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> while shooting the film, which led him to be hospitalised, which further delayed the film.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dear Comrade star Vijay Deverakonda hospitalised! - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/dear-comrade-star-vijay-deverakonda-hospitalised/articleshow/68520819.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> Filming was completed on 28 April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The shoot of 'Dear Comrade' has been wrapped up - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/the-shoot-of-dear-comrade-has-been-wrapped-up/articleshow/69082144.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Main|Dear Comrade (soundtrack)}}

== Release ==
The film was originally scheduled to release on 31 May 2019, was postponed in order to avoid clash with Suriya's NGK.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Deverakonda's 'Dear Comrade' release postponed due to likely clash with Suriya's 'NGK'? - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/vijay-deverakondas-dear-comrade-release-postponed-due-to-likely-clash-with-suriyas-ngk/articleshow/68627286.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1 April 2019|title=Release of Vijay Deverakonda's 'Dear Comrade' postponed|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/release-vijay-deverakondas-dear-comrade-postponed-99301|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The News Minute|language=en}}</ref> On 9 May 2019, Deverakonda announced that the film will be released on 26 July 2019 in [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Kannada]] and [[Malayalam]] languages.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vijay Deverakonda Announces 'Dear Comrade' Release Date a Day Before His Birthday |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/vijay-deverakonda-announces-dear-comrade-release-date-a-day-before-his-birthday-2133999.html |access-date=19 June 2019 |work=[[News18]] |date=9 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's Dear Comrade to release on July 26 - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/vijay-deverakonda-and-rashmika-mandannas-dear-comrade-to-release-on-july-26/articleshow/69251264.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

The film was also dubbed and released in [[Hindi]] on [[YouTube]] by Goldmines Telefilms on 19 January 2020. The Hindi dubbed version crossed more than 242 million views on YouTube.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dear Comrade (2020) New Released Hindi Dubbed Full Movie - Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika, Shruti|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzhfvt5vZHI|access-date=9 January 2021|website=YouTube|language=en}}</ref>

== Marketing ==
The official teaser of the film was released on 17 March 2019,<ref>{{Cite web|title='Dear Comrade' teaser shows us two sides of the film - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/dear-comrade-teaser-shows-us-two-sides-of-the-film/articleshow/68448955.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=17 March 2019|title=Dear Comrade teaser: Vijay Deverakonda fights for love|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/telugu/vijay-deverakonda-dear-comrade-teaser-5630486/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> landed in controversy, after both the lead actors being trolled over the kissing scene featured in the clip.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=ChennaiMarch 19|first1=India Today Web Desk|last2=March 19|first2=2019UPDATED|last3=Ist|first3=2019 09:08|title=Rashmika Mandanna and Vijay Deverakonda brutally trolled for Dear Comrade kissing scene|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/regional-cinema/story/rashmika-mandanna-and-vijay-deverakonda-brutally-trolled-for-dear-comrade-kissing-scene-1481389-2019-03-19|access-date=18 November 2020|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> Rashmika stated in response to the controversy, that since the particular scene in the film demanded a lip lock scene, it is a responsibility for an actor to do justice for the role. She further added, "No movie should be judged solely on the basis of a lip-lock scene. It should be seen as a whole."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rashmika Mandanna comments on the lip-lock controversy in 'Dear Comrade' - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/rashmika-mandanna-comments-on-the-lip-lock-controversy-in-dear-comrade/articleshow/68546917.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

A promotional event titled ''Dear Comrade Music Festival'', took place across [[Bengaluru]], [[Kochi|Cochin]], [[Chennai]] and [[Hyderabad]], for the film's marketing purposes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dear Comrade music festival is a grand success in Bengaluru and Kochi - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/dear-comrade-music-festival-is-a-grand-success-in-bengaluru-and-kochi/articleshow/70245624.cms|access-date=18 November 2020|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> The film's marketing team announced its collaboration with [[Airtel India]], as their sponsor.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gopi|date=9 July 2019|title=Dear Comrade Associates With Airtel India|url=https://www.socialnews.com/2019/07/09/dear-comrade-associates-with-airtel-india/|access-date=18 November 2020|website=Social News XYZ|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Reception==
=== Critical response ===
Hemanth Kumar of ''[[Firstpost]]'' said that the film is "an intense but uneven film". Giving the film a 3/5, he adds, "Dear Comrade is beautifully written and the love story between the two characters is sheer magic, but then it straddles between two worlds that are loosely held together"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/dear-comrade-movie-review-vijay-deverakonda-rashmika-in-an-intense-but-uneven-film-7061551.html|title=Dear Comrade movie review: Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika in an intense but uneven film|first=Hemanth |last=Kumar |date=26 July 2019|website=Firstpost|language=en|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref> Sudhir Srinivasan of ''[[The New Indian Express]]'' gave the film a 4.5/5 by praising the movie for its direction and the acting of its leading roles.<ref>[https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2019/jul/26/dear-comrade-review-an-equal-romance-full-of-heart-and-sensitivity-2009868.html 'Dear Comrade' review: This Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika Mandanna-starrer is equal romance full of heart and sensitivity]</ref> Writing for ''[[The Times of India]]'', Suhas Yellapantula gave 3.5 stars and said that the film "makes you think, keeps you guessing and plays with your emotions. After the film, there's a good chance you'll walk out with your collar up and ready to raise your voice against anything that doesn't sit right with you — even if it's just for a while."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Dear Comrade Review {3.5/5}: A film that makes you think, keeps you guessing and plays with your emotions|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movie-reviews/dear-comrade/movie-review/70392696.cms|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref> Janani K of ''[[India Today]]'' wrote that "Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna's Dear Comrade is about the relationship between two contrasting characters. While the film addresses an important message on sexual harassment, it gets hidden under mass moments. Watch it for the performances. Director Bharat Kamma had a solid script in hand, and a relevant one at that."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/regional-cinema/story/dear-comrade-movie-review-massy-vijay-deverakonda-undoes-an-important-message-1573861-2019-07-26|title=Dear Comrade Movie Review: Massy Vijay Deverakonda undoes an important message|first=Janani |last=K.|date=26 July 2019|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref> Sangeetha Devi Dundoo of ''[[The Hindu]]'' wrote, "Rashmika Mandanna and Vijay Deverakonda shine in director Bharat Kamma's film that underlines the importance of being a comrade".<ref name="TH26July2019">{{cite news|last1=Dundoo|first1=Sangeetha Devi|date=26 July 2019|title='Dear Comrade' review: A multi-hued romantic drama|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/dear-comrade-review-rashmika-mandanna-and-vijay-deverakonda-shine-in-director-bharat-kammas-film/article28720258.ece|access-date=26 July 2019}}</ref> Karthik Kumar, in his review for ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', gave 3.5 stars out of five and wrote that "Dear Comrade does tumble towards the end with a slightly below par climax, but it's still an effort you want to appreciate. The film, about life, love and facing our worst fears, achieves more than one can imagine, and that's what makes it a winner."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/regional-movies/dear-comrade-movie-review-vijay-deverakonda-s-film-is-a-beautiful-tale-of-love-which-has-shades-of-arjun-reddy/story-IY5BYxhIZVKJuJiKQFeBRK.html|title=Dear Comrade movie review: Vijay Deverakonda's film is a beautiful tale of love with shades of Arjun Reddy|date=26 July 2019|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=27 July 2019}}</ref>

===Box office===
''Dear Comrade'' collected around {{INR}}18 crore on its opening day.<ref name="BoxOfficeDayOne">{{cite news |last1=Upadhyaya |first1=Prakash |title=Dear Comrade 1st day box office collection: Vijay Devarakonda's new film shatters opening-day record of NOTA |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/dear-comrade-1st-day-box-office-collection-vijay-devarakondas-film-shatters-opening-day-record-802447 |access-date=27 July 2019 |work=International Business Times, India Edition |date=27 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It collected {{INR}}30-33 crore in the first weekend.<ref name="IBTBox">{{cite news |last1=Hooli |first1=Shekhar H. |title=Dear Comrade 3-day box office collection: Vijay film makes 60% recovery in weekend 1 |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/dear-comrade-3-day-box-office-collection-vijay-film-makes-60-recovery-weekend-1-802572 |access-date=30 July 2019 |work=International Business Times, India Edition |date=29 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="FSBox">{{cite news |title=Dear Comrade earns Rs 33 cr globally in opening weekend; The Lion King tops Tamil Nadu box office - Entertainment News, Firstpost |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/dear-comrade-earns-rs-33-cr-globally-in-opening-weekend-the-lion-king-tops-tamil-nadu-box-office-7091611.html/amp |access-date=12 April 2020 |work=Firstpost |date=1 August 2019}}</ref> According to [[International Business Times]], ''Dear Comrade'' grossed a total of {{INR}}37.33 crores till the end of the year 2019.<ref name="IBTDec2019">{{cite news |last1=Hooli |first1=Shekhar H. |title=Tollywood Box office report - 2019: Highest grossing Telugu movies of the year |url=https://www.ibtimes.co.in/tollywood-box-office-report-2019-highest-grossing-telugu-movies-year-810648 |access-date=13 August 2020 |work=International Business Times, India Edition |date=22 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Remake==
Filmmaker [[Karan Johar]] has acquired the rights of producing a Hindi remake of the film.<ref>{{cite news|date=24 July 2019|title=Dear Comrade: Karan Johar acquires Hindi remake rights of Vijay Deverakonda's film - Times of India|language=en|work=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/dear-comrade-karan-johar-acquires-hindi-remake-rights-of-vijay-deverakondas-film/articleshow/70356875.cms|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=24 July 2019|title=Karan Johar buys rights for Hindi remake of Arjun Reddy star Vijay Devarakonda's Dear Comrade before it releases|language=en|work=Hindustan Times|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/karan-johar-buys-rights-for-hindi-remake-of-arjun-reddy-star-vijay-devarakonda-s-dear-comrade-before-it-releases/story-nXZ1qKxMEj2P413DoHL5eI.html|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=20 October 2017|title=Bollywood actor Jackky Bhagnani to star in Hindi remake of Telugu film Pelli Choopulu- Entertainment News, Firstpost|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/bollywood-actor-jackky-bhagnani-to-star-in-hindi-remake-of-telugu-film-pelli-choopulu-4159493.html|access-date=17 September 2019|website=Firstpost|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=tt8388508}}

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Chitti character

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{{other uses|Chitti (disambiguation)}}
{{Short description|fictional character in Enthiran franchise}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox character
| color = #AF181F
| name = Chitti
| series = [[Enthiran]]
| image = Chitti (character).jpg
| alt =
| caption = Chitti, as portrayed by Rajinikanth in ''Enthiran'' (2010)
| first = ''[[Enthiran]]'' (2010)
| last = ''[[2.0 (film)|2.0]]'' (2018)
| creator = [[S. Shankar]]
| portrayer = [[Rajinikanth]]

| alias = Chitti, the robot 2.0
| species = [[Humanoid robot]]
| occupation =
| relatives = Dr. Vaseegaran {{Small|(Creator)}}
| significant_other = Nila
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
}}

'''Chitti''' is a [[character (arts)|fictional character]] and the primary [[protagonist]] of the [[Enthiran (franchise)|''Enthiran'']] [[film series]]. The character was portrayed by [[Rajinikanth]] in ''[[Enthiran]]'', as a [[Cameo appearance|cameo]] in ''[[Ra.One]]'', and in ''[[2.0 (film)|2.0]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=‘2.0’ Teaser Review: Chitti, Chitti, Bang Bang. End. |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/hot-news/20-review-teaser-chitti-saves-the-day-rajinikanth-photocopy-hollywood |accessdate=24 September 2018 |work=The Quint |language=en}}</ref> Chitti was imagined, created and developed by [[S. Shankar]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Shankar’s Endhiran to become a reality soon |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/others/news-interviews/Shankars-Endhiran-to-become-a-reality-soon/articleshow/6215072.cms? |date=26 July 2010|accessdate=13 July 2020 |newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref>

== Concept and creation ==
[[File:Rajinikanth at the Inauguration of MGR Statue (cropped).jpg|thumb|150px|right|Rajinikanth in 2018|alt=Rajinikanth is seen looking away from the camera.]]
The visual appearance of Chitti was based on the [[G.I. Joe]] [[action figure]]s. For Chitti's [[2.0 (film)|2.0]] version look, its hair was spiked and brown coloured lenses were used for its eyes, whereas for its "good robot" look, green coloured lenses were used. The wig used for Chitti's 2.0 look had a silver streak in the middle, made out of [[yak]] hair,<ref name="Banu Sify">{{cite web | url=http://www.sify.com/movies/banu-i-give-full-credit-to-rajini-sir-news-tamil-kkjrmldfhchsi.html | title=Banu – I give full credit to Rajini sir | publisher=Sify | date=9 October 2010 | accessdate=21 February 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221074710/http://www.sify.com/movies/banu-i-give-full-credit-to-rajini-sir-news-tamil-kkjrmldfhchsi.html | archivedate=21 February 2015 | url-status=dead}}</ref> while its leather jacket was designed by Vogt.<ref name="Banu Sify" /> Suits made of copper were used for Chitti's costume.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/others/news-interviews/Rajinis-metallic-look/articleshow/4131575.cms |title=brittnttnt metallic look! |work=The Times of India |date=16 February 2009 |accessdate=29 January 2015 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6VwSUJG9S?url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/others/news-interviews/Rajinis-metallic-look/articleshow/4131575.cms |archivedate=29 January 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Biography==

{{further|Enthiran}}
Chitti (played by [[Rajnikanth]]) is a humanoid robot created by Dr. Vaseegaran, (also played by Rajinikanth). Dr Vaseegaran, who is specialized in robotics, created Chitti after a decade of unsuccessful attempts and intensive research. Vaseegaran makes Chitti an exact look-alike of himself. The robot is named Chitti, as suggested by Vaseegaran's mother.

Vaseegaran made Chitti interact with people outside the lab to socialize him with the outside world and saw how he used his intellects and abilities amongst humans. In order for the robot to understand human behavior, Vaseegaran taught the robot about emotions and upgraded the software to give it the ability to comprehend and exhibit human emotions. But then the robot fell in love with the scientist's girlfriend, Sana (played by [[Aishwarya Rai]]) and thus it caused conflict between them. Angered by the robot, Vaseegaran literally chopped the robot into pieces. He was found by Dr. Bohra (played by [[Danny Denzongpa]]) and upgraded into 2.0 because of a red chip.<ref>{{cite news |title=Entertainment Chennai : Director's dream project |url=https://www.thehindu.com/fr/2005/03/11/stories/2005031101810100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916123101/http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2005/03/11/stories/2005031101810100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 September 2015 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2005-03-11 |accessdate=24 September 2018 }}</ref> He converts Chitti into a ruthless killer and then Chitti turned into a destructive killing machine and killed Bohra. He then went after Vaseegaran and Sana and crashed their wedding. He showed numerous other powerful abilities including shapeshifting as well as duplicating. However, Vaseegaran managed to defeat and stop Chitti. Since he caused so much damage and destruction to the city, he was de-activated and dismantled. His body parts were then displayed in the museum in the year 2030 as the most advanced humanoid robot ever built.<ref>{{cite news |title=‘Script decides the fate of the movie' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-newdelhi/lsquoScript-decides-the-fate-of-the-movie/article15609945.ece |accessdate=24 September 2018 |work=The Hindu |date=27 December 2010 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

{{further|Ra.One}}
Chitti reappeared in the film ''[[Ra.One]]'' in a special non-canon appearance.<ref>{{cite news |title=Revealed! What Rajinikanth’s Chitti does in Ra.One's Chammak Challo |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-revealed-what-rajinikanth-s-chitti-does-in-raone-s-chammak-challo-1594868 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |work=dna |date=4 October 2011}}</ref> Rajinikanth did not play Chitti in the film rather the character was computer generated and his look as Chitti was digitally recreated and was used in the film.

{{further|2.0 (film)}}
Chitti is forced to be reassembled by Dr. Vaseegaran and the Indian Army in order to stop the antagonist, [[Fifth force]], which is controlled by Pakshi Rajan, an [[Ornithology|ornithologist]] (played by [[Akshay Kumar]]) turned into a vengeful spirit.<ref>{{cite news |title=2.0: Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar film trailer to release on Diwali 2018? |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/regional-cinema/story/2point0-trailer-on-diwali-2018-rajinikanth-akshay-kumar-1346962-2018-09-23 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |work=India Today |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Rajinikanth Effect: 2.0 Teaser Gets Blockbuster Welcome - 32 Million Views in 24 Hours |url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/the-rajinikanth-effect-2-0-teaser-gets-blockbuster-welcome-32-million-views-in-24-hours-1916413 |accessdate=24 September 2018 |work=NDTV.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=2.0 Movie Review : Is 2.0 worth for watching or not? |url=https://www.indianpeopletimes.com/entertainment/2-0-movie-review-is-2-0-worth-for-watching-or-not|accessdate=30 November 2018 |work=indianpeopletimes.com}}</ref> But Chitti is defeated and destroyed in his original form by the antagonist, which leads his CPU head to be rebooted in another advanced mechanical body, identifying himself as Chitti reloaded version '2.0', and will also fall in love with his female counterpart, the super-android Nila (played by [[Amy Jackson]]), also created by Vaseegaran. Alongside Chitti, there is another robot created known as "Kutty" (3.0), which is a microbot capable of shape-shifting.

==Powers and abilities==
{{Unreferenced section|date=February 2019}}

Chitti is described by Vaseegaran as an advanced "[[Humanoid robot|andro-humanoid]]" robot. Over his metallic body, he sports synthetic inorganic skin moulded after Vaseegaran himself. He is designed with a speed capacity of 1 Terahertz (THz) and a memory capacity of 1 Zettabyte.

Initially, Chitti has been programmed with almost all the existing world knowledge managed to put in computable terms in his CPU, thus he is knowledgeable and proficient in all forms of academia, martial arts, communication, creative outlets, athletic skills, and scientific ingenuity.
Underneath his synthetic skin, he is fire, water, and acid-resistant.

In his original form, he is partially resistant to severe damage such as gunshots, though he can still be damaged or destroyed by properly aimed and adequately forceful attacks such as being chopped with an axe in the joints. Severe electrocution can also overload short-circuit him. As long as his CPU head is still functioning, Chitti is able to repair or fix back his minor parts such as his eyes. However, for large damage such as limbs being chopped off, he can only put them back in place and function at a much slower speed.

Chitti's eyes are able to not only see and scan his surroundings to extremely acute detail, including X-ray vision, but they can also serve as high-definition projectors. His eyes also allow him to pick up additional skills and literature within seconds. He can also perform virtual phone calls, displaying his caller or receiver through his eyes as a hologram. However, on the downside, the eyes get bleached when exposed to the flashlight.

Aside from Chitti's strength and durability, his most powerful weapon is his built-in electromagnetic body, which can attract any metallic object and weaponize it. This and his connection to electronic devices give him enhanced technopathy and telekinesis.

Chitti's only known weaknesses are flashing lights from photography or direct sunlight, which causes a "vision bleach" and temporarily distort his sight, and his susceptibility to battery drainage. However, in the case of the latter, he just needs to absorb a bare minimum amount of electric power to recharge himself in a matter of seconds.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{Cite web|last=Shedde|first=Meenakshi|url=https://www.screendaily.com/enthiran-robot/5019245.article|title=Chitti - The Robot from Enthiran|publisher=Screen Daily|date=19 October 2010|access-date=24 September 2018}}

{{Enthiran franchise}}

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Advait Chandan

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{{Infobox person
| name = Advait Chandan
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]<ref name="Advait-BMS"/>
| nationality = [[India]]n
| occupation = [[Film director]], Screenwriter
| years_active = 2007–present
| known_for = [[Secret Superstar]]
| notable_works =
}}
'''Advait Chandan''' is an Indian [[film director]] works in [[Hindi film]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/secret-superstar-director-advait-chandan-aamir-khan-1067783-2017-10-20| title=Secret Superstar director Advait Chandan on his journey from Aamir Khan's manager to filmmaker| work=[[India Today]]|accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref> He had his debut as a director with the movie [[Secret Superstar]].

==Career==
In 2007, Advait started his career with [[Reema Kagti]]'s [[Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.]] as the third assistant director and [[Taare Zameen Par]] as the assistant production manager. Collaborating with [[Aamir Khan]] again, Advait worked as the casting director and post-production supervisor on [[Kiran Rao]]'s debut venture [[Dhobi Ghat]].

After donning various roles in the film industry, Advait finally made his directorial debut in 2017 with the film [[Secret Superstar]], featuring [[Aamir Khan]] and [[Zaira Wasim]] in the lead.<ref name="Advait-BMS">{{cite web |url=https://in.bookmyshow.com/person/advait-chandan/1076566 |title= Advait Chandan-Bio |work=BookMyShow.com |accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/bollywood/secret-superstar-director-advait-chandan-i-was-too-scared-to-narrate-my-film-to-aamir-khan-4124885.html| title=Secret Superstar director Advait Chandan: 'I was too scared to narrate my film to Aamir Khan'| work=Firstpost |accessdate=2019-03-20| author=Abhishek Shrivastava}}</ref> He also wrote the screenplay of the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/bollywood/shocking-directing-secret-superstar-advait-chandan-wants-now-aamir-khans-assistant/ |title=SHOCKING: After directing Secret Superstar, Advait Chandan wants to now be Aamir Khan's assistant |work= [[Bollywood Hungama]]| accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref> It was the highest-grossing [[List of Bollywood films of 2017|2017 Hindi film]], and the [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|second-highest-grossing Hindi film]] of all time, behind only ''[[Dangal (film)|Dangal]]'' (2016).<ref name="bollywoodlife2"/> It is also the [[List of highest-grossing Indian films|third-highest-grossing Indian film]] of all time, behind only ''Dangal'' and ''[[Baahubali 2: The Conclusion]]'' (2017),<ref name="bollywoodlife2">{{cite news|last=Raveendran|first=Karthika|title=Aamir Khan's Secret Superstar BEATS PK, rakes in Rs 833 crore gross at the worldwide box office|url=http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/aamir-khans-secret-superstar-beats-pk-rakes-in-rs-833-crore-gross-at-the-worldwide-box-office/|work=Bollywood Life|date=10 February 2018}}</ref> after surpassing Aamir Khan's own ''[[PK (film)|PK]]'' (2014).His next film as a director is the upcoming [[Aamir Khan]] starrer [[Lal Singh Chaddha]] which was supposed to begin shooting in October 2019.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/birthday-boy-aamir-khans-next-film-lal-singh-chaddha-based-on-tom-hanks-classic-forrest-gump-2007629| title= Birthday Boy Aamir Khan's Next Film: Lal Singh Chaddha, Based On Tom Hanks Classic Forrest Gump| work=[[NDTV]]|accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/aamir-khan-s-next-laal-singh-chaddha-an-official-adaptation-of-tom-hanks-forrest-gump/story-5piZ6dMsFjKacLcHHQukZJ.html |title= Aamir Khan's next, Laal Singh Chaddha, an official adaptation of Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump | work=[[Hindustan Times]]|accessdate=2019-03-20}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Year !! Film !! Director !! Screenplay !! Assistant director !! Notes
|-
| rowspan=2| 2007 || [[Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.]] || || || {{yes}} || production assistant
|-
| [[Taare Zameen Par]] || || || || assistant production manager
|-
| 2009 || ''Bollywood Hero'' || || || {{yes}} ||
|-
| 2010 || [[Dhobi Ghat (film)|Dhobi Ghat]] || || || {{yes}} || casting director, post production supervisor
|-
| 2017 || [[Secret Superstar]] || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || ||
|-
| 2021 || [[Laal Singh Chaddha]] || {{yes}} || || ||
|}

==Accolades==

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|2378914}}
* {{facebook|chandanadvait}}

{{Advait Chandan filmography}}
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Bodyguard 2010 film

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{{short description|2010 film by Siddique Ismail}}
{{more citations needed|date=January 2021}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Bodyguard
| image = Bodyguard (2010 film) poster.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| alt =
| caption = Promotional poster
| director = [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
| producer = Johny Sagariga
| writer = [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
| starring = [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] [[Nayantara]] [[Mithra Kurian]] [[Thiagarajan]]
| music = [[Ouseppachan]]
| cinematography = S. Kumar
| editing = K. R. Gowri Shanker
| studio = Johnny Sagariga Film Company
| distributor = Johnny Sagariga Film Company
| released = {{Film date|2010|1|23|df=y}}
| runtime = 157 minutes
| country = India
| language = Malayalam
| budget = ₹ 40 million
| gross = ₹ 235 million
}}

'''''Bodyguard''''' is a 2010 Indian [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam-language]] [[romantic comedy]] [[action film]] written and directed by [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]. It stars [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] and [[Nayantara]] in the lead roles, while [[Mithra Kurian]] and [[Thiagarajan]] play supporting roles. This film was Nayantara's comeback to [[Malayalam cinema]] after a gap of four years, and it is the first time that Dileep had worked with Siddique. The music was composed by [[Ouseppachan]] with popular choreographer-director [[Prabhu Deva]] choreographing the song sequences. The film was a blockbuster.

The film released on 22 January 2010. It has been remade into various languages: in [[Bodyguard (2012 film)|Telugu]], [[Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)|Hindi]], and [[Bodyguard (2011 Kannada film)|Kannada]] with the same title and in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as ''[[Kaavalan]]''. The Tamil and Hindi versions were directed by Siddique himself.

== Plot ==
The film revolves around young Jayakrishnan ([[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]]), who has a very strange habit: he adulates anyone with a trace of heroism. Whenever he develops an admiration towards a person, he prefers to move with that person as a sort of bodyguard. He starts admiring Ashokettan ([[Thiagarajan]]), a former liquor tycoon and leading businessman. Jayakrishnan wants to be Ashokan's bodyguard, but Ashokan does not need one. Later, Jayakrishnan approaches Ashokan with a recommendation from someone he cannot refuse. He achieves his luck after saving Ashokan from danger. Jayakrishnan thus becomes the bodyguard of Ashokan's daughter Ammu ([[Nayantara]]). Jayakrishnan follows Ammu to her college as her bodyguard. Ammu and her friend Sethulakshmi ([[Mithra Kurian]]) get irritated with him following them all day.

Jayakrishnan takes his role as a bodyguard very seriously and follows the two girls around constantly. In an attempt to get rid of him, the girls make up a "fake lover", hoping to distract Jayakrishnan from his duties as a bodyguard, and their plan works. Jayakrishnan falls in love with "Private Number" and is constantly looking for this girl, but he has no idea that his lover is Ammu. Ammu, as a joke, calls Jayakrishnan and speaks badly about Ammu. Jayakrishnan gets a little angry and disagrees with her. He believes Ammu is a good-hearted person. That is when the viewer is able to tell that Ammu is really falling in love with Jayakrishnan.

Ammu later tells Jayakrishnan to run away with her and meet her at a railroad station. Jayakrishnan agrees, not knowing that the girl is Ammu herself. Ashokan finds out, and he believes that Jayakrishnan and Ammu are planning to run away together. In order to save Jayakrishnan's life, Ammu lies that it is not her. Jayakrishnan is meeting another girl at the station. Ashokan lets Jayakrishnan go but tells others to kill Jayakrishnan if a girl does not show up. Terrified, Ammu sends Sethulakshmi to the station and tells her to tell Jayakrishnan that Ammu is the lover and she will not be able to make it to the station. Sethulakshmi, seeing Jayakrishnan, falls in love and admits that she is the lover and not Ammu. Ammu calls her twice, but Sethulakshmi throws the cellphone out, trying to erase Ammu out of their love life completely.

Years later, after Jayakrishnan and Sethulakshmi's marriage, she bears a son but unfortunately dies. Before her death, she leaves a diary for her son telling the whole story between the phone calls and his father and Ammu. The son later goes to Ammu's house with Jayakrishnan to visit Ashokan. Jayakrishnan is shocked that Ammu is not married. The son asks Ammu to become his mother, and Jayakrishnan is shocked and angry at his son for saying something so blunt and rude. But Ashokan begs Jayakrishnan to take Ammu as his wife. So they go onto the train together, but the son runs and throws the diary into a trash can nearby. Jayakrishnan finds the diary and realizes that his real lover, the girl who has waited for him for so many years faithfully, was Ammu. The film ends with Jayakrishnan, Ammu, and the son hugging each other.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Dileep (actor)|Dileep]] as Jayakrishnan
* [[Nayanthara]] as Ammu
* [[Mithra Kurian]] as Sethulakshmi (Ammu's friend)
* [[Thiagarajan]] as Ashokettan (Ammu's father)
* [[Harisree Asokan]] as Neelambaran
* [[Janardhanan (actor)|Janardhanan]] as Balakrishna Menon (Sethulakshmi's father)
* [[Zeenath]] as Radhamani (Ashokan's wife)
* Vyjayanthi as Mallika
* Appa Haja as Rajeevan (Ammu's brother)
* [[Undapakru]] as Kudamaloor Balaji (Ammu's college mate)
* [[Cochin Haneefa]] as College Principal
* [[Nandhu]] as Ramankutty Master, Jayakrishnan's father
* [[Seema G. Nair]] as Meenu Teacher, Jayakrishnan's mother
* [[Rony David]] as College Student
* [[Sidhartha Siva]] as College student
* Pradeesh Nandan as College student
* Baiju Ezhupunna
{{colend}}

==Awards and honours==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#d1e4fd"
! Year
! Award Category
! Winner
! Result
!{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|- bgcolor=#edf3fe
| 2010 || [[Asianet Film Awards|Asianet Film Awards for Best Actress]] || [[Nayantara]] || {{won}} ||<ref name="newindianexpress.com">http://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/malayalam/article402653.ece</ref>
|}

==Music==
{{Infobox album
| name = Bodyguard
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[Ouseppachan]]
| cover =
| alt =
| released = 10 January 2010
| recorded = 2009–10
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 26.09
| label = Johny Sagariga Music Company
| producer = [[Ouseppachan]]
| prev_title = [[Hailesa]]
| prev_year = 2010
| next_title = [[Aagathan]]
| next_year = 2010
}}

=== Track listing ===
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| title1 = Kozhi Chingara
| extra1 = [[Afsal]], [[Anitha Shaiq|Anitha]]
| lyrics1 = [[Kaithapram]]
| length1 = 4:57
| title2 = Arikathayaro
| extra2 = [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith K Govind]]
| lyrics2 = Anil Panachooran
| length2 = 4:03
| title3 = Enneyano
| extra3 = [[MG Sreekumar]], [[Biju Narayanan]], [[Rimi Tomy]]
| lyrics3 = [[Anil Panachooran]]
| length3 = 4:09
| title4 = Perilla Rajyathe
| extra4 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], Elizabeth Raju
| lyrics4 = Anil Panachooran, Kaithapram
| length4 = 4:55
| title5 = Machilamma
| extra5 = [[Pradeep Palluruthy]], [[Jyotsna Radhakrishnan|Jyotsna]]
| lyrics5 = Kaithapram
| length5 = 4.31
| title6 = Arikathayaro
| extra6 = [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith K Govind]], Elizabeth Raju
| lyrics6 = Anil Panachooran, Kaithapram
| length6 = 4:02
}}

==Remakes==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
!Year
!Film
!Language
!Cast
!Director
|-
| 2011
|[[Kaavalan]]
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|[[Vijay (actor)|Vijay]], [[Asin (actress)|Asin]], [[Rajkiran]], [[Mithra Kurian]]
|[[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
|-
| 2011
|[[Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)|Bodyguard]]
|[[Hindi]]
|[[Salman Khan]], [[Kareena Kapoor]], [[Raj Babbar]], [[Hazel Keech]],
|[[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]
|-
| 2011
|[[Bodyguard (2011 Kannada film)|Bodyguard]]
|[[Kannada]]
|[[Jaggesh]], [[Daisy Shah]], Gurudutt, Spoorthi Suresh
|Isaiah Gama
|-
| 2012
|[[Bodyguard (2012 film)|Bodyguard]]
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|[[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]], [[Trisha Krishnan]], [[Prakash Raj]], [[Saloni Aswani]]
|[[Gopichand Malineni]]
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|1585558|Bodyguard}}

{{Bodyguard and its remakes}}
{{Siddique (director)}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bodyguard}}
[[Category:2010 films]]
[[Category:2010s Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:2010 romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Films about bodyguards]]
[[Category:Films directed by Siddique]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Malayalam films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Malayalam-language films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Varikkasseri Mana]]

Kaptaan

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{{Infobox film
| name = Kaptaan
| image = Kaptaan film teaser.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| director = [[Mandeep Kumar]]
| producer = [[Tips Industries]]
| writer = Dheeraj Rattan
| starring = [[Gippy Grewal]], [[Monica Gill]] [[Karishma Kotak]], [[Pankaj Dheer]] Kanwaljit Singh
| music = [[Jaidev Kumar]] DJ Flow B Praak
| cinematography = Anshul Chobey
| editing = Manish More
| studio = [[Tips Industries]]
| distributor = [[Tips Industries]]
| released = {{Film date|2016|05|20|df=y}}
| runtime = 142m 23s<ref name="British Board of Film Classification">{{cite web | title=KAPTAAN | website=British Board of Film Classification | url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/kaptaan-film | accessdate=19 May 2016}}</ref>
| country = India
| language = [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]
| budget = 
| gross = 
}}

'''''Kaptaan''''' ({{translation|Captain}}) is a 2016 [[India]]n [[Punjabi language|Punjabi-language]] action/courtroom drama film directed by [[Mandeep Kumar]] and starring [[Gippy Grewal]], [[Monica Gill]], [[Karishma Kotak]].<ref name="Service 2016">{{cite web | last=Service | first=Tribune News | title=Aye Aye Kaptaan! | website=tribuneindia.com | date=20 April 2016 | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/life-style/aye-aye-kaptaan/112862.html | accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="TNN 2015">{{cite web | last=TNN | first=TNN | title=Gippy Grewal in Tips Films’ Punjabi movie ‘Kaptaan’ | website=The Times of India | date=4 December 2015 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/punjabi/movies/news/Gippy-Grewal-in-Tips-Films-Punjabi-movie-Kaptaan/articleshow/48371481.cms | accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref><ref name="SimplyBhangra.com | Home of Bhangra Online 2015">{{cite web | title=Punjabi Movie: Kaptaan - Starring Gippy Grewal | website=SimplyBhangra.com | Home of Bhangra Online | date=1 August 2015 | url=http://simplybhangra.com/punjabi-movies/9352-punjabi-movie-kaptaan-starring-gippy-grewal.html | accessdate=20 April 2016}}</ref> The release date of the film is 20 May 2016.<ref name="Tribune News 2016">{{cite web | last=Service | first=Tribune News | title=‘Kaptaan’ comes calling to city | website=tribuneindia.com | date=17 May 2016 | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/community/-kaptaan-comes-calling-to-city/237875.html | accessdate=17 May 2016}}</ref>

==Cast==
*[[Gippy Grewal]] as Advocate Kaptaan Singh Grewal
* [[Monica Gill]] as Preeti
* [[Karishma Kotak]] as Sam
* [[Pankaj Dheer]] as Dhillon
* [[Kanwaljit Singh (actor)|Kanwaljit Singh]] as Judge

== Track list ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! S. No. !! Track !! Singer !! Music !! Lyrics
|-
| 1. || "Redua" || [[Gippy Grewal]] || DJ Flow || Raj Ranjodh
|-
| 2. || "Oscar" || Gippy Grewal ft. [[Badshah (rapper)|Badshah]] || B Praak || Jaani
|-
| 3. || "Rabba Rabba" || Gippy Grewal || [[Jaidev Kumar]] || Babu Singh Maan
|-
| 4. || "26 26" || Gippy Grewal || DJ Flow || Amrit Maan
|}

==Reception==

===Critical response===
''[[Indo-Asian News Service|IANS]]''<ref name="The Statesman">{{cite web | title='Kaptaan' movie review: Loses the plot | website=The Statesman | url=http://www.thestatesman.com/news/reviews/-kaptaan-movie-review-loses-the-plot/144181.html | accessdate=5 June 2016}}</ref><ref name="IANS 2016">{{cite web | author=IANS | title='Kaptaan' loses the plot (Movie Review) | website=Business Standard News | date=23 May 2016 | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/kaptaan-loses-the-plot-movie-review-116052300812_1.html | accessdate=5 June 2016}}</ref> and ''[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]''<ref name="NewsService 2016">{{cite web | last=Service | first=Tribune News | title=MOVIE REVIEW — KAPTAAN Aye Aye Captain | website=tribuneindia | date=20 May 2016 | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/movie-reviews/movie-review-kaptaan/239609.html | accessdate=5 June 2016}}</ref> reviewed the film.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/tipsmusic/videos Official youtube channel]

[[Category:2016 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Punjabi-language films]]
[[Category:2010s Punjabi-language films]]
[[Category:UTV Motion Pictures films]]