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Rowdy is a film of genre Action directed by Ram Gopal Varma released in USA on 3 april 2014 with Mohan Babu

Rowdy (2014)

Rowdy
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Released in USA 3 april 2014
Length 1h49
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Genres Action,    Romance
Rating56% 2.802012.802012.802012.802012.80201

Rowdy is a 2014 Telugu crime film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. It stars Mohan Babu and his elder son Vishnu Manchu with Jayasudha and Shanvi Srivastav in important roles. Sai Kartik composed the music for this film while Satish Mutyala handled the cinematography. The principal photography commenced on 26 December 2013 and ended on 21 February 2014 in 30 working days.

The film is a remake of RGV's own 2005 film Sarkar which itself was inspired partly from 1972 Hollywood film The Godfather. The film also used sync sound and a three camera setup to reduce the work of dubbing and camera angles while in post production. The film was released on 4 April 2014 (worldwide) and 3 April 2014 (united states) in over 50 screens.

Upon release, the film received positive reviews, with critics praising Ram Gopal Varma's narrative and brilliant performances from Mohan Babu, Vishnu Manchu and Jaya Sudha. The film minted ₹11.13 crore (US$1 7 million) on the first weekend of its release. The film minted a worldwide share of ₹33 crore (US$5 0 million) at the end of the second week of its run, and was declared a box office hit.

Synopsis

The film opens in a street in Hyderabad in a night with Krishna (Vishnu Manchu) saving Sirisha (Shanvi Srivastava) from some eve teasers and accompanying her to the hostel she stays. In the journey, they both come to know that they hail from Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. When Sirisha asks Krishna about the details of his father, the scene shifts to the native place of Krishna where his father, a don fondly called as Anna (Mohan Babu) and as Annagaru with respect punishing a teacher named Sankar Rao for harassing his pregnant wife for dowry on the complaint of the woman's father Rama Rao. Anna is a sexagenarian man who always thinks about the welfare of the people of Rayalaseema and they too revere him equal to god. Anna is a very powerful and influential don who also controls the political affairs of that region. His friend Ananda Rao (Paruchuri Gopala Krishna), a ruling party politician, is his close friend and he and the party extends their full support to Anna to stop the Nandavaram project whose happening would destroy 34 villages completely. On the other hand, a group of influential people working under a mysterious man try to make the project to earn crores. The group consists of KR, Vedantham Murthy aka Vedam (Tanikella Bharani), Chandi (Jeeva) and Seshagiri who is fond of cakes.

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