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Arjun Reddy
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Arjun Reddy release date: 25 August 2017 (theatres). Directed by Sandeep Vanga; starring Vijay Deverakonda, Priyadarshi Pulikonda and Shalini Pandey.
- Film release
- 25 August 2017 · All 2017 films
- Director
- Sandeep Vanga
- Music
- Radhan
- Production
- Bhadrakali Pictures
- Runtime
- 182 min
- Language
- Telugu
OTT release
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Film release: 25 August 2017 · all 2017 Telugu films.
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Arjun Reddy is a 2017 Telugu-language romantic drama written and directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, in his first film as director. Vijay Deverakonda plays the title role of a gifted surgeon whose temper and drinking send him into a spiral after he loses the woman he loves, and Shalini Pandey plays her. Made on a small budget, the film was a critical and commercial success, won Deverakonda the Filmfare Award for Best Telugu Actor and was remade in Hindi and twice in Tamil. It also drew criticism for its treatment of self-destruction and substance abuse.
Story
Arjun Reddy Deshmukh is a brilliant but volatile house surgeon at a medical college in Mangalore, known on campus as much for his rages as for his marks. After a violent brawl following a football match, he is on the point of leaving the college when he meets Preethi Shetty, a shy first-year student. He falls for her at once and becomes fiercely protective of her, and over time she returns his feelings.
The relationship survives years of distance while Arjun studies orthopaedics, but when he asks her family for their blessing, her father firmly opposes the match. Preethi is married to someone else, and Arjun, a wealthy and high-functioning alcoholic with anger problems, sets off on a self-destructive path. The film follows his downfall and the question of whether he can recover; this summary stops before those answers.
Cast
- Vijay Deverakonda as Arjun Reddy Deshmukh
- Shalini Pandey as Preethi Shetty
- Rahul Ramakrishna, Jia Sharma, Sanjay Swaroop, Gopinath Bhat, Kamal Kamaraju and Kanchana in supporting roles
Development
Vanga had given up studying physiotherapy and worked as an assistant director on the 2010 Telugu film Kedi. The story of Arjun Reddy was partly inspired by his own years as a physiotherapy student. He spent two years writing the script and then four to five years trying to find a backer, as producers were unwilling to fund it. In the end his brother, Pranay Reddy Vanga, agreed to produce it through his company, Bhadrakali Pictures, with Pranay and their father investing equally.
Production
Principal photography began on 20 June 2016 in Hyderabad and took 86 working days. The film was also shot in Mangalore, Dehradun and New Delhi, with some filming in Italy. Raj Thota was the cinematographer and Shashank Mali the editor. Radhan composed the songs and Harshvardhan Rameshwar the background score.
Release and box office
The film was made on a budget of ₹5–5.15 crore and was released worldwide on 25 August 2017. According to the source, it grossed ₹51 crore globally, with a distributor share of ₹25.5 crore, making it a clear box-office success.
Reception and awards
Critics widely acclaimed the film, while some objected to how it handled self-destruction and substance abuse. At the 65th Filmfare Awards South it received six nominations, including Best Telugu Film and Best Telugu Director for Vanga. Its one win was Best Telugu Actor for Deverakonda.
Remakes
The story was retold three times in other languages:
- Kabir Singh (2019), in Hindi
- Adithya Varma (2019), in Tamil
- Varmaa (2020), a second Tamil version
Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Trailer from the official YouTube channel of Bhadrakali Pictures, published 5 Aug 2017.
Cast of Arjun Reddy (2017)
- Vijay Deverakonda as Arjun Reddy Deshmukh
- Priyadarshi Pulikonda as Vipul
- Shalini Pandey as Preethi Shetty
Additional cast
Further acting credits recorded for this film; voice-only and dubbing credits are excluded.
- Rahul Ramakrishna as Shiva
- Kamal Kamaraju as Gautham
- Kanchana as Arjun's Grandmother
Also in the cast (TMDB): Sanjay Swaroop as Arjun's Father, Gopinath Bhat as Devadas Shetty, Aditi Myakal as Vidya, Anisha Alla as Keerthi, Sandhya Janak as Arjun's Mother, Jia Sharma as Jia Sharma, Amit Sharma as Amit, Bhushan Kalyan as Dean of St. Mary's College, Lahari Shari as Rani.
Character names as listed on TMDB, checked 10 Oct 2026.
What critics said
The article describes highly positive reviews, with praise for Sandeep Vanga's storytelling and the lead performance, and some reservations about the pace of the second half.
- Film Companion (Baradwaj Rangan) found the portions before the interval generic, but said the film “really comes into its own” in the second half.
- The Hindu (S. Shiva Kumar) credited Vanga's storytelling with the conviction of a debutant and called the performances of Deverakonda and Kanchana pitch perfect.
- Indo-Asian News Service called it the most original, experimental and daring Telugu film in a long time.
- India Today (Srivatsan) praised the “brutal and honest” filmmaking.
- Deccan Chronicle (Suresh Kavirayani) commended the performances and the filmmaking but had doubts about the pace of the second half.
- Firstpost (Hemanth Kumar) praised storytelling without gimmicks or twists that draws viewers in at a personal level.
- The Hans India (K. Naresh Kumar) was critical of the pace and some subplots in the second half, calling the experiment tedious.
- Cinema Express (Murali Krishna CH) liked the unpredictable first half but saw some emotional scenes after the interval as a “serious flaw”.
Box office: the article reports a worldwide gross of ₹19 crore and a distributor share of ₹10.42 crore in the first weekend, and says the film was declared a commercial success.
Summarised by Tollywood Desk from the reception section of the Wikipedia article Arjun Reddy (revision 1376371212), which cites the reviews named above. Quotation marks show words quoted in that article; no ratings or scores are added here.
Source record: Q28419404 on Wikidata. Dates are those on record and can change; this is not a studio announcement. Spotted an error? Send a correction.