Kandireega

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{{Infobox film
| name = Kandireega
| image = Kandireega_poster_hd.jpg
| caption = Theatrical Poster
| director = [[Santosh Srinivas]]
| producer = [[Bellamkonda Suresh]]
| writer = [[Anil Ravipudi]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Ram Pothineni|Ram]]|[[Hansika Motwani]]|[[Sonu Sood]]|[[Aksha Pardasany]]}}
| music = [[S. Thaman]]
| cinematography = Prasad
| editing =
| studio = Sri Sai Ganesh Productions<br />and<br />Multidimension Entertainments Private Limited
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2011|8|12}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget =
| gross = {{INR|22 [[crore]]|link=yes}}<ref name="bo" />
}}
'''''Kandireega''''' ({{trans|Wasp}}) is a 2011 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[Romance film|romantic]] [[action comedy film]] directed by [[Santosh Srinivas]] and produced by [[Bellamkonda Suresh]] under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. The film features [[Ram Pothineni|Ram]], [[Hansika Motwani]], [[Sonu Sood]] and [[Aksha Pardasany]] in the lead roles with the music scored by [[S. Thaman]]. Released on 12 August 2011, the film was a commercial success, grossing {{INR}} 22 [[crore]] at the [[box office]].<ref name="bo">{{Cite web|title=Tollywood top hits of 2011 2|url=https://www.sify.com/movies/tollywood-top-hits-of-2011-imagegallery-tollywood-lm3o95dgchasi.html|access-date=2020-09-06|website=Sify|language=en}}</ref>

It was remade in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as ''[[Paglu 2]]'' (2012) and in [[Hindi]] as ''[[Main Tera Hero]]'' (2014).

==Plot==
Sreenu ([[Ram Pothineni]]) is the son of Vishwanatham ([[Chandra Mohan (Telugu actor)|Chandra Mohan]]). He is a high school drop-out in [[Anakapalle]] and wants to marry his uncle's ([[Dharmavarapu Subramanyam]]) daughter Bujji ([[Swati Reddy]]). 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 travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Hyderabad, he meets Shruthi ([[Hansika Motwani]]) and falls in love with her. The city gangster Bhavani ([[Sonu Sood]]) is in love with her and blackmails her into marrying him. He beats anyone moving closely with Shruthi. Meanwhile, henchmen of Warangal Rajanna ([[Jaya Prakash Reddy]]), a dreaded chieftain, are looking for Sreenu in the city.

Sreenu meets Bhavani and forces him to a challenge, whereby, he will make Shruthi love him. Sreenu rescues Shruthi from being kidnapped by the gang of Yadayya, a rival of Bhavani. When Sreenu wins Shruthi's heart, and both of them decide to elope, she is kidnapped.

It is then revealed that Rajanna kidnapped Shruthi to get hold of Sreenu because Rajanna's daughter Sandhya ([[Aksha Pardasany]]) 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 Shruthi. A police intelligence officer, Avataram([[Raghu Babu]]), Rajanna's brother-in-law, comes to attend Sreenu and Sandhya's wedding. Sreenu and Bhavani start their one-upmanship games to win Shruthi.

How Sreenu comes out of this quagmire to rescue Shruthi from the clutches of Rajanna and Bhavani and what happens to Sandhya are revealed in the climax interspersed with twists and turns.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Ram Pothineni|Ram]] as Sreenu
* [[Hansika Motwani]] as Shruthi
* [[Sonu Sood]] as Bhavani
* [[Aksha Pardasany]] as Sandhya
* [[Chandra Mohan (Telugu actor)|Chandra Mohan]] as Vishwanatham, Sreenu's father
* [[Jaya Prakash Reddy]] as Rajanna, Sandhya's father
* [[M. S. Narayana]] as Sreenu's uncle
* [[Dharmavarapu Subramanyam]] as Sreenu's uncle
* [[Srinivasa Reddy]] as Sreenu's friend
* [[Raghu Babu]] as Intelligence Officer Avataram
* [[Saptagiri (Telugu actor)|Saptagiri]] as Giri
* [[Fish Venkat]] as Chintu
* [[Y. Kasi Viswanath]] as Sruthi's father
* [[Pragathi (actress)|Pragathi]]
* [[Rama Prabha]]
* [[Hema (actress)|Hema]]
* [[Brahmaji]]
* [[Praveen (actor)|Praveen]]
* [[Brahmanandam]] (cameo appearance)
* [[Swati Reddy]] as Bujji (guest appearance)
{{colend}}

==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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/ravi-teja-as-kandireega-news-telugu-kkfrvahjcjc.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020024430/http://www.sify.com/movies/ravi-teja-as-kandireega-news-telugu-kkfrvahjcjc.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |title=Ravi Teja as Kandireega! |publisher=Sify.com |date=21 October 2009 |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/kandireega-awaits-total-makeover-news-telugu-kkfrhdfgbab.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020024516/http://www.sify.com/movies/kandireega-awaits-total-makeover-news-telugu-kkfrhdfgbab.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |title=Kandireega awaits total makeover |publisher=Sify.com |date=24 December 2009 |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref> In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newsofap.com/all_comments.php?new_auto_id=12806&start=1700 |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910010024/http://www.newsofap.com/all_comments.php?new_auto_id=12806&start=1700 |archive-date=10 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Thetfilming began in October 2010 with [[Ram Pothineni|Ram]] and [[Hansika Motwani]], whilst actress [[Swati Reddy]] shot scenes the following month.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/november-2010/colors-swathi-opposite-ram-in-kandireega-161110.html |title=Kandireega | Colors Swathi Kandireega | Ram | Hansika Motwani | Santosh Srinivas | Bellamkonda Suresh |publisher=CineGoer.com |date=16 November 2010 |access-date=2012-08-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929172229/http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/november-2010/colors-swathi-opposite-ram-in-kandireega-161110.html |archive-date=29 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/tollywood-back-in-action-after-21-days-news-telugu-km4mqMbifga.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104071222/http://www.sify.com/movies/tollywood-back-in-action-after-21-days-news-telugu-km4mqMbifga.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 January 2011|title=Tollywood back in action after 21 days|access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=TNN |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-28/hyderabad/28251931_1_chennai-film-fighters-film-shooting |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426183916/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-28/hyderabad/28251931_1_chennai-film-fighters-film-shooting |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-26 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=4 film fighters suspended in a bid to end Tollywood tussle |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref> 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 during negotiations.<ref>{{cite web|author=TNN |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-12/hyderabad/28357357_1_film-chamber-film-fighters-film-workers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426183931/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-12/hyderabad/28357357_1_film-chamber-film-fighters-film-workers |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-26 |work=[[The Times of India]] |title=Tollywood back to action |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref>

After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by [[S. Thaman]] in March 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/64631.html |title=Chakri out and Thaman in for 'Kandireega' – Telugu Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=2012-08-04}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Kandireega
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[S. Thaman]]
| cover =
| alt =
| caption =
| released = 14 July 2011
| recorded = 2011
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 21:53
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = S. Thaman
| prev_title = [[Vandhaan Vendraan]]
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = [[Dookudu]] / [[Power (2014 Kannada film)|Power]]
| next_year = 2011
}}

''Kandireega''{{'}}s audio was launched at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad on 14 July 2011. Senior actor Venkatesh was the chief guest at the audio launch. Dharmavarapu Subramaniam, hero Gopichand, producer Bellamkonda Suresh, director of the film Santosh Srinivas, senior director V. V. Vinayak, music composer S. S. Thaman, actress Aksha, Sravanti Ravikishore etc. all were present at the grand audio launch.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/events/28269.html|title=Telugu Cinema News – Telugu Movie Reviews – Telugu Movie Trailers – IndiaGlitz Telugu|access-date=6 October 2018}}</ref>

{{Track listing
| extra_column = Performer(s)
| total_length = 21:53
| title1 = Gentleman | extra1 = [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]], Chorus | length1 =3:17 | lyrics1 = [[Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar]]
| title2 = Champakamala | extra2 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], [[Suchitra]] | length2 =4:49 | lyrics2 = [[Ramajogayya Sastry]]
| title3 = Nenkudithey |extra3 = Naveen Madhav, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Aalaap Raju, Ranjith, [[Ranina Reddy]], Dharshana | length3 =4:35 | lyrics3 = Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar
| title4 = Angelina | extra4 = Ranjith, Ranina Reddy, Suchitra | length4 =4:14 | lyrics4 = Ramajogayya Sastry
| title5 = Premey | extra5 = Ranjith, [[Hemachandra]], Deepu, [[L. V. Revanth|Revanth Kumar]], M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Bindhu Mahima, [[Geetha Madhuri]], [[Sravana Bhargavi]] | length5 =4:58 | lyrics5 = Ramajogayya Sastry
}}

==Release==
It was also dubbed in Hindi as ''Dangerous Khiladi 4'' in 2015.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

==Remakes==
Reportedly the [[Hindi]] remake rights of the film were sold to [[Ekta Kapoor]] of [[Balaji Motion Pictures]] for {{INR}} 20 million which has [[Varun Dhawan]] in lead, directed by his father [[David Dhawan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Ekta-Kapoor-brings-David-and-Varun-Dhawan-together/articleshow/17925186.cms|title=Ekta Kapoor brings David and Varun Dhawan together for the remake Kandireega in Hindi.}}</ref> The film was named [[Main Tera Hero]].This film was also remade in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as ''[[Paglu 2]]'' starring [[Dev (Bengali actor)|Dev]] and [[Koel Mallick]] directed by [[Sujit Mondal]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|2018083}}

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[[Category:2010s Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:2011 romantic comedy films]]
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[[Category:Telugu films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:Films shot in Warangal]]
[[Category:Films shot in Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian action comedy films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. Thaman]]
[[Category:2010s romantic action films]]
[[Category:Indian romantic action films]]
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