Kandireega

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.

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• Ram Pothineni as Sreenu / Kandireega
• Hansika Motwani as Sruthi
• Sonu Sood as Bhavani
• Aksha Pardasany as Sandhya
• Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Srihari Rao, Sreenu's friend
• Chandra Mohan as Viswanatham, 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 as Giri
• Fish Venkat as Chintu
• Y. Kasi Viswanath as Sruthi's father
• Pragathi
• Rama Prabha
• Hema
• Brahmaji
• Praveen
• Brahmanandam (cameo appearance)
• Swati Reddy as Bujji (guest appearance)

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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.{{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! |website=Sify |date=21 October 2009 |access-date=2012-08-04}} 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.{{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 |website=Sify |date=24 December 2009 |access-date=2012-08-04}} In April 2010, it was revealed that the producer and Ravi Teja had fallen out and he was replaced by Ram.{{Cite web |url=http://www.newsofap.com/all_comments.php?new_auto_id=12806&start=1700 |access-date=1 April 2011 }} Thetfilming began in October 2010 with Ram and Hansika Motwani, whilst actress Swati Reddy shot scenes the following month.{{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 }} 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.{{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|website=Sify |access-date=6 October 2018}}{{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}} 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.{{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}}

After filming had resumed, the original music director Chakri was replaced by S. Thaman in March 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/64631.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110308180549/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/64631.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 March 2011 |title=Chakri out and Thaman in for 'Kandireega' – Telugu Movie News |website=IndiaGlitz |date=7 March 2011 |access-date=2012-08-04}}

{{Infobox album

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| type = Soundtrack

| artist = S. Thaman

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| released = 14 July 2011

| recorded = 2011

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| genre = Feature film soundtrack

| length = 21:53

| label = Aditya Music

| producer = S. Thaman

| prev_title = Vandhaan Vendraan

| prev_year = 2011

| next_title = Dookudu / Power

| next_year = 2011

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Kandireega{{'}}s audio was launched at Taj Deccan in Hyderabad on 14 July 2011. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/events/28269.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208090041/http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/events/28269.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 February 2013|title=Telugu Cinema News – Telugu Movie Reviews – Telugu Movie Trailers – IndiaGlitz Telugu|access-date=6 October 2018}}

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Performer(s)

| total_length = 21:53

| title1 = Gentleman | extra1 = Ranjith, Chorus | length1 =3:17 | lyrics1 = Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar

| title2 = Champakamala | extra2 = 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, Revanth Kumar, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Bindhu Mahima, Geetha Madhuri, Sravana Bhargavi | length5 =4:58 | lyrics5 = Ramajogayya Sastry

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The film was theatrically released on 12 August 2011.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

In a bid to acquire the film, Gemini TV was competing but the rights were acquired by Zee Telugu.

Jeevi of Idlebrain rated the film 3 out of 5 and stated that "Kandireega is a kind of script that is prepared to cater to comedy and mass elements. It is a mass masala movie with ample entertainment".{{Cite web |title=kandireega film review - Telugu cinema Review - Ram & Hansika Motwani |url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-kandireega.html |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=www.idlebrain.com}} Echoing the same, The Times of India stated: "Though the story isn’t too original, Kandireega is an out-and-out entertainer that doesn’t leave you bored for even a second".{{Citation |title=Kandireega Movie Review {3.5/5}: Critic Review of Kandireega by Times of India |newspaper=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movie-reviews/kandireega/movie-review/9591987.cms |access-date=2022-06-30}}

The film was remade in Hindi as Main Tera Hero and in Bengali as Paglu 2.{{Cite web |title=Dhawan duos to team up for remake of Telugu movie Kandireega |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/review/2013/aug/07/dhawan-duos-to-team-up-for-remake-of-telugu-movie-kandireega-504539.html |access-date=2022-06-30 |website=The New Indian Express|date=7 August 2013 }}

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