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{{Infobox film
| name = Lakshmi
| image = Lakshmi 2006 film poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| story = Siva Akula
| screenplay = V.V. Vinayak
| starring = [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]]<br>[[Nayantara]]<br>[[Charmme Kaur]]
| director = [[V.V. Vinayak]]
| producer = [[Nallamalupu Bujji]]
| studio = Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
| music = [[Ramana Gogula]]<br>[[Mani Sharma]]<br>{{small|(background score)}}
| cinematography = [[Chota K. Naidu]]
| editing = Gautham Raju
| released = {{Film date|2006|01|14|df=y}}
| runtime = 161 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = {{INR|12 [[crore]]|link=yes}}<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/a-few-hits-and-many-flops/article3231882.ece | title=A few hits and many flops | date=29 December 2006 | first=M. L. | last=Narasimham | newspaper=The Hindu | access-date=23 June 2020}}</ref>
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|20–22 crore}}<ref name="Hindu" /><ref name="sify" />
}}

'''''Lakshmi''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[action drama]] film produced by [[Nallamalupu Bujji]] on Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions on banner, directed by [[V.V. Vinayak]] and cinematography by [[Chota K. Naidu]]. Starring [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]], [[Nayantara]] and [[Charmme Kaur]]. The music of the movie was composed by [[Ramana Gogula]]. The film was successful at the [[box office]] and also marked [[Nayantara]]'s Telugu debut.<ref name="Hindu" /> After a year, it was dubbed in Hindi as ''[[Lakshmi (2006 film)|Meri Taaqat]]'' and after 16 years of this movie, it was re-dubbed in Hindi again with the same name under [[Goldmines Telefilms Pvt. Ltd.]].

The film was remade in Bengali in 2007 named '' [[Sangharsha]] '' directed by [[Sujit Guha]] starring [[Prosenjit]] , [[Rajatava Dutta]], [[Swastika Mukherjee]], Sayantani and in Bengali Bangladesh in 2008 named ''Pita Matar Amanot'' .

==Plot==
Lakshmi Narayana ([[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]]), the MD of Lakshmi Group of Companies, is an elder son in a family with two brothers and two sisters. He is very strict about disciplining his brothers so that they become the men that their father ([[Ranganath (actor)|Ranganath]]) wanted them to be, to the point of beating them for coming home drunk. He owns a factory that is worth hundreds of [[crores]]. Shailaja a.k.a. Shailu ([[Charmme Kaur]]), an employee in Lakshmi's company, has a huge crush on him. Janardhan ([[Sayaji Shinde]]), a former employee of Lakshmi Industries who was accused of [[forgery]], plans to take revenge on Lakshmi by creating divisions in his family. Soon, Lakshmi's sister falls in love with a man, and he is accepted by Lakshmi, with the marriage concluding grandly. It is later revealed that the man is Janardhan's nephew. This leads to Lakshmi revealing to his siblings that he and his sister (the youngest of the five) were adopted by their parents at a young age as they were [[orphans]] who were being ill-treated by their uncles and aunts. All this leads to the splitting of the siblings with Lakshmi and his sister being thrown out of the house by their younger brothers. The people standing beside Lakshmi are all the people in his factory and his other sister. Lakshmi even ends up working in his factory for all this. He even moves into a small house with his sister, where he is later joined by his mother. Later, it is revealed that Lakshmi had fallen in love with a girl named Nandini ([[Nayantara]]) earlier, who was the niece of his foster father. Nandini was threatened by a young man who was the son of a [[Kolkata]]-based don named Rayudu ([[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]]). Lakshmi beats up the guy and sends him into a [[coma]], which earns him Rayudu's wrath. The rest of the story is about how Lakshmi stands up to all these people together.

== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Venkatesh (actor)|Venkatesh]] as Lakshmi Narayana "Lakshmi"
* [[Nayantara]] as Nandini
* [[Charmme Kaur]] as Shailaja "Shailu"
* [[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]] as Rayudu
* [[Sayaji Shinde]] as Janardhana Rao
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Sattar(Guest role)
* [[Sunil (actor)|Sunil]] as Suresh
* [[Jayabharathi]] as Lakshmi's mother
* [[Ranganath (actor)|Ranganath]] as Lakshmi's father
* [[Uma (actress)|Uma]] as Lakshmi's sister
* [[Sharwanand]] as Lakshmi's brother
* [[Rajiv Kanakala]] as Lakshmi's brother
* [[Sameer Hasan|Sameer]] as Lakshmi's brother-in-law
* [[Sudha (Telugu actress)|Sudha]] as Nandini's mother
* [[Telangana Shakuntala]] as Shakuntala
* [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]] as Tiger Satti
* [[Ahuti Prasad]]
* [[Chalapathi Rao]]
* [[Jenny (actor)|Jenny]]
* [[L. B. Sriram]]
* [[Naramalli Sivaprasad]]
* [[Chatrapathi Sekhar]] as Bujji
* [[Satya Prakash (actor)|Satya Prakash]] as Charminar Babji
* [[Fish Venkat]] as Babji's henchman
* [[Rajendran]] as Babji's henchman
* [[Raghu Karumanchi|Raghu]]
* [[Rajitha]]
* Baljeet
* Aajam
* Kallu Krishna Rao
* Ooma
* Revathy
* Jayalakshmi
* Shanta Ho
* Subhashini
* Master Teja as Young Lakshmi
* Master Prem Kumar
* Master Sumanth Raj
* Master Venkat
* Master Manoj
* Baby Rajayanni
* Baby Vaish{{colend}}

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Lakshmi
| type = film
| artist = [[Ramana Gogula]]
| cover =
| released = 2006
| recorded =
| genre = Soundtrack
| length = 25:28
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = [[Ramana Gogula]]
| prev_title = ''Relax''
| prev_year = 2005
| year = 2006
| next_title = ''Seetaramudu''
| next_year = 2006
}}

Music composed by [[Ramana Gogula]]. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.
{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length =25:28
| all_writing =
| all_lyrics =
| all_music =
| title1 = Dhaga Dhaga
| lyrics1 = Vishwa
| extra1 = [[Ramana Gogula]],Ganga
| length1 = 4:19

| title2 = Taara Taluku Taara
| lyrics2 = [[Chandrabose (lyricist)|Chandrabose]]
| extra2 = Raju, [[Sunitha Upadrashta|Sunitha]]
| length2 = 4:11

| title3 = Hey Satyabhama
| lyrics3 = [[Chandrabose (lyricist)|Chandrabose]]
| extra3 = [[Shankar Mahadevan]],Sudha
| length3 = 4:01

| title4 = Ammayi Andhra Mirchi
| lyrics4 = Kulasekhar
| extra4 = [[Tippu (singer)|Tippu]], [[Shreya Ghoshal]]
| length4 = 4:31

| title5 = Ne Puttindi Neekosame
| lyrics5 = Kulasekhar
| extra5 = [[Rajesh Krishnan]] , Ganga
| length5 = 4:44

| title6 = Hey Satyabhama (remix)
| lyrics6 =
| extra6 = Ramana Gogula
| length6 =
}}

==Reception==

===Critical reception===
''Indiaglitz'' gave the film 2 out of 5 stars and said "V V Vinayak's direction is on safe lines. He keeps to the linear path, without taking any chances. He knows whom he is catering to and delivers what he promised".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/lakshmi-telugu-movie-review-8009.html|title=Lakshmi review. Lakshmi Telugu movie review, story, rating}}</ref> Jeevi of ''[[idlebrain.com]]'' gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and said "First half of the film is OK and the scenes before interval are good. The second half divulges into a entirely different flashback episode. There are certain good moments in the film and has got orientation towards masses and family crowds. However, the VV Vinayak could not blend in Venkatesh’s family image and Vinayak’s mass taking in a smooth way. The biggest advantage of this film is that Lakshmi is the only mass film for the entire season of Sankranthi which gives good market penetration in C and D centers as well in the first week itself".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-lakshmi.html|title=Lakshmi - Telugu cinema Review - Venkatesh, Nayana Tara & Charmme}}</ref>In the 50 days of function at Eluru, the hero [[Venkatesh]] said"The success of Lakshmi film encouraged me a lot. The success of the film go to the entire unit of Lakshmi. I am happy to have delivered many hits in my career spanning 20 years from Kaliyuga Pandavulu to Lakshmi. People started calling me Lakshmi Bava after the release of this film."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/50days-lakshmi.html|title=50 days function: Lakshmi}}</ref>

===Box office===
The film was released in 316 screens, including 284 from then [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>[http://www.superhit.co.in/boxoffice.asp?record=laxmicenters ::Welcome to Superhit] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928081031/http://www.superhit.co.in/boxoffice.asp?record=laxmicenters |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref> The film collected Rs.8 crores in its opening week.<ref>[http://www.nonstopcinema.com/nsc/boxoffice/display.php?id=223 Nonstopcinema Box Office - Tollywood’s mid-year report card : Telugu movies, tollywood, cinema]</ref> ''Lakshmi'' collected around {{INR|22 crore}} according to ''[[Sify]]''.<ref name="sify" >{{Cite web|date=2006-07-07|title=Half Yearly report!|url=http://sify.com/movies/telugu/fullstory.php?id=14243985|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060719055359/http://sify.com/movies/telugu/fullstory.php?id=14243985|archive-date=2006-07-19|website=[[Sify]]}}</ref> It had a 50-day run in 215 centres. The film was dubbed in Tamil under the same title.<ref>[http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/50days-lakshmi.html Lakshmi 50 days function- Telugu cinema - Venkatesh, Nayana Tara & Charmme]</ref> The film had a 100-day run in 94 centres.<ref>[http://idlebrain.com/trade/index.html Telugu cinema trade report for the first half of year 2006 - idlebrain.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805054518/http://www.idlebrain.com/trade/index.html |date=5 August 2012 }}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]] won [[Nandi Award for Best Male Comedian]] for his excellent comic role in this film.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964 - 2008)|trans-title=A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964 - 2008)|url=http://ipr.ap.nic.in/New_Links/Film.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=31 December 2020|website=|publisher=[[Andhra Pradesh (magazine)|Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh]]}}(in [[Telugu language|Telugu]])</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|id=0813550|title=Lakshmi}}

{{V. V. Vinayak}}

[[Category:2006 films]]
[[Category:2000s Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian action drama films]]
[[Category:2000s masala films]]
[[Category:Films directed by V. V. Vinayak]]
[[Category:Films shot in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Telugu films remade in other languages]]
[[Category:2006 action drama films]]

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