Don Seenu

Don Seenu is a 2010 Telugu action comedy directed by Gopichand Malineni and produced by R. R. Venkat, starring Ravi Teja as a young man who has wanted to be a gangster ever since he saw Amitabh Bachchan’s Don. Shriya Saran and Anjana Sukhani co-star, with Srihari and Sayaji Shinde as rival dons and music by Mani Sharma. It was a commercial hit.

What the story is about

Srinivasa Rao has insisted on being called “Don Seenu” since childhood. Using his wits, he gets close to Hyderabad’s two biggest gangsters, the bitter rivals Madhavpur Machiraju and Narsingh, and plays them off against each other, eventually joining Machiraju. His first big job takes him to Germany: win the heart of Narsingh’s sister, whose marriage has been fixed with the son of the Dubai crime boss Mukesh Duggal. But Seenu is shown the wrong girl, and nothing about his plan is quite what it seems.

Cast and crew

• Ravi Teja as Srinivasa Rao, “Don Seenu”
• Shriya Saran as Deepthi, Machiraju’s sister
• Anjana Sukhani as Priya, Narsingh’s sister
• Srihari as Narsingh
• Sayaji Shinde as Madhavpur Machiraju
• Kasthuri as Lakshmi, Seenu’s cousin
• Mahesh Manjrekar as Mukesh Duggal
• Brahmanandam as Vishwas and Ali as Rama Rao
• A young Siddhu Jonnalagadda in a small role

Director: Gopichand Malineni. Producer: R. R. Venkat (R. R. Movie Makers). Music: Mani Sharma. Cinematography: Sameer Reddy. Editing: Gautham Raju. Runtime: 165 minutes.

Making the film and music

Trisha was first signed as the heroine but was replaced by Shriya Saran, who returned to Telugu films after five years. Mani Sharma’s six-song soundtrack, including a remix, was launched on 22 July at the Taj Deccan in Hyderabad, where Dasari Narayana Rao released the CD and D. Ramanaidu the cassette.

Release, reviews and box office

Don Seenu was released on 6 August 2010, the date given by Wikipedia and by contemporary reports including a Supergoodmovies item from 2 August 2010, and Rediff’s review is dated 6 August. Radhika Rajamani of Rediff gave it two and a half out of five, calling it “an out and out commercial potboiler which provides mindless entertainment” and “Ravi Teja’s show all the way”.

Supergoodmovies put the budget at ₹23 crore, and T2BLive‘s list of 2010’s top Telugu earners credits it with a distributors’ share of ₹16 crore. It was dubbed into Hindi as Sabse Bada Don twice, in 2011 and 2022.

Where to watch Don Seenu

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Don Seenu and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.