Kurradu

Kurradu (“Boy”) is a 2009 Telugu action thriller directed by Sandeep Gunnam, son of the producer Gunnam Gangaraju. Varun Sandesh and Neha Sharma play the leads, with P. Ravi Shankar as the gangster Satya. It is a remake of the Tamil film Polladhavan, produced under the Anandi Art Creations banner with music by Achu Rajamani, and was released on 12 November 2009.

What the story is about

Varun is a young man from a middle-class Hyderabad family who feels he is going nowhere: he cannot afford a costly education or buy his way into a job. After an angry birthday-night outburst, his father hands him the money saved for his sister’s wedding, and Varun buys the motorbike he has long dreamed of. The bike seems to bring him luck: a bank job, his father’s respect and the love of Hema, whom he has pursued for two years.

Then the bike is stolen. The theft drags Varun into the world of a drug and ganja gang run by Satya and his hot-headed younger brother Ravi, and a simple police complaint sets off a feud that threatens his family. The film follows how far an ordinary young man will go to get his bike back and protect the people around him.

Cast and crew

• Varun Sandesh as Varun
• Neha Sharma as Hema
• P. Ravi Shankar as Satya
• Tanikella Bharani as Varun’s father
• Pragathi as Varun’s mother
• Ali as Jeelani
• Venu Yeldandi as Auto Kumar
• Sivannarayana Naripeddi as Varun’s friend
• M. S. Narayana

Director: Sandeep Gunnam. Production: Anandi Art Creations. Music: Achu Rajamani.

Music

Achu’s soundtrack was launched at Prasad Labs on the morning of 10 September 2009, with Ram Charan Teja, Puri Jagannadh, S. S. Rajamouli and M. M. Keeravani among the guests. Ram Charan released the audio cassette and handed the first copy to Puri Jagannadh, while Rajamouli released the CD and gave it to Keeravani. Wikipedia describes the songs as chartbusters; a platinum disc function followed at FNCC on 2 November 2009.

Release and reviews

Kurradu opened on 12 November 2009 to mixed reviews. Jeevi of Idlebrain felt the makers had managed to remake the scenes of the Tamil original but “couldn’t translate the much required soul in to the Telugu version”. Wikipedia, citing a later feature in The Hindu, records the film as a box-office failure; we have not found a named outlet giving collection figures.

Where to watch Kurradu

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Kurradu and the review and report it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.