Krishnarjuna

Krishnarjuna is a 2008 Telugu fantasy comedy directed by P. Vasu and produced by Mohan Babu on his Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures banner. Nagarjuna plays Lord Krishna, who comes to the aid of a mistreated orphan played by Vishnu Manchu, with Mamta Mohandas as the heroine and music by M. M. Keeravani. Based on Bruce Almighty, it was released on 1 February 2008.

What the story is about

A mentally unstable pregnant woman runs into a temple, gives birth at the feet of Lord Krishna’s idol and dies; the villagers, believing the birth a bad omen, close the temple doors. The boy, Arjun, grows up with his grandmother and works as a bodyguard to Satya, the sister of the landlord Pedababu, who treats him badly. When an astrologer predicts that Satya’s first husband will be killed and that she will live happily with her second, Pedababu decides to marry her off to Arjun first, and then get rid of him. But Lord Krishna takes Arjun’s side, lending him powers to face what is coming.

Cast and crew

• Nagarjuna as Lord Krishna / Bangaram
• Vishnu Manchu as Arjun
• Mamta Mohandas as Sathya
• Mohan Babu as Baba, the astrologer
• Nassar as Pedababu
• Brahmanandam as an astrologer and Sunil as Arjun’s sidekick
• Manorama as Arjun’s grandmother
• Venu Madhav as a businessman

Director: P. Vasu. Producer: M. Mohan Babu (Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures). Music: M. M. Keeravani, released by 24 Frames Music. Runtime: 154 minutes.

Reviews and box office

Critics were not kind. Rediff gave it two out of five and summed it up: “Krishnarjuna is neither serious nor entertaining.” Full Hyderabad felt it “steers clear of anything deep”, and that this looked like “incapability rather than design”.

Wikipedia describes the film as a box-office failure, though the only source it gives is a pre-release report on its 275-print release. In 2016 the producers released dubbed versions in Tamil, as Rowdy Maappillai, and in Hindi, as Rowdy Krishna.

Where to watch Krishnarjuna

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