Baladur

Baladur (also spelled Baladoor) is a 2008 Telugu action comedy directed by K. R. Udhayashankar and produced by D. Suresh Babu under Suresh Productions. Ravi Teja leads alongside the veteran star Krishna and Anushka Shetty, with Chandra Mohan, Pradeep Rawat, Sunil and Brahmanandam in support. K. M. Radha Krishnan composed the music and Marthand K. Venkatesh edited it. It was released on 14 August 2008.

What the story is about

Chanti looks up to his uncle Ramakrishna, his father’s elder brother, even more than to his own father, Purushottam. Ramakrishna has a long-running feud with Umapathi that goes back to an incident twenty years earlier. After a misunderstanding, Chanti is thrown out of the family home, just as Umapathi sets out to crush Ramakrishna once and for all. The film follows Chanti as he quietly works to protect his uncle from their enemies and find his way back into the family.

Cast and crew

• Ravi Teja as Chanti
• Krishna as Ramakrishna
• Anushka Shetty as Bhanumathi
• Chandra Mohan as Purushottam, Chanti’s father
• Pradeep Rawat as Umapathi
• Suman as Samarasimha Reddy, Umapathi’s henchman
• Sunil as Seenu, Chanti’s friend
• Brahmanandam as Nani and Suman Setty as Pappu
• Subbaraju as Veera, Umapathi’s brother-in-law

Director: K. R. Udhayashankar. Producer: D. Suresh Babu (Suresh Productions). Music: K. M. Radha Krishnan. Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh.

Music

Aditya Music released the soundtrack on 30 July 2008, with lyrics by Chandrabose, Peddada Murthy and Ananta Sriram; the actor Venkatesh released the album CD.

Reviews

Critics saw it as a formula film. Radhika Rajamani of Rediff gave it two and a half stars out of five, writing that the director “takes up a stereotypical storyline” but “manages to entertain with a satisfactory screenplay in a formulaic way”. Alluru Rahim of Zamin Ryot criticised its “lackluster screenplay”, and Y. Sunita Chowdhary of The Hindu called it “an average film” that offers nothing new. It was later dubbed into Hindi as Dhamkee and remade in Odia as Mu Kana Ete Khara. We have not found box-office figures from a named outlet.

Where to watch Baladur

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