Naa Alludu

Naa Alludu (“My Son-in-Law”) is a 2005 Telugu action comedy directed by Vara Mullapudi. N. T. Rama Rao Jr. stars with Shriya and Genelia, with Ramya Krishna, Suman, Rajiv Kanakala, Charan Raj, Brahmanandam and Ali in support, and Devi Sri Prasad composed the music. It was released on 14 January 2005 and runs 161 minutes.

What the story is about

Karthik is insulted by Bhanumati, a formidable industrialist, when he goes to her company for a job interview, and he vows revenge: he will marry one of her two daughters. One accidental kiss is enough for the elder, Meghana, to fall for him, and the younger, Gagana, soon follows. Competing with him is Bhanumati’s nephew Rahul, pushed by his father Jayaraj to marry one of his cousins and get his hands on the family fortune. Karthik’s real reasons for targeting Bhanumati’s household go deeper than a bad interview, and the film is about how this would-be son-in-law sets his mother-in-law straight.

Cast and crew

• N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Karthik
• Shriya as Meghana and Genelia as Gagana
• Ramya Krishna as Bhanumathi Devi and Suman as Venkayya Naidu
• Rajiv Kanakala as Rahul and Charan Raj as Jayaraj
• Nassar as Sripathi, Karthik’s father, and Sudha as Lakshmi
• Brahmanandam as Inspector Lolakullu, Ali as Lingappa, Krishna Bhagavaan, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Hema

Director: Vara Mullapudi. Music: Devi Sri Prasad (soundtrack on Aditya Music).

Production

The film was launched on 29 May 2004 under the working title Alludu, and its audio was released at a function in Araku.

Reviews and box office

Critics panned it. Jeevi of Idlebrain gave it two out of five and said “on a whole, this film disappoints”; Sify wrote it off as entertainment “without any sense of logic packaged with crude jokes and double meaning dialogues”; IndiaGlitz called it “a simple and straightforward waste of time”; and Full Hyderabad rated it one out of ten. It was a box-office bomb, as The Hindu’s review of the year recorded. It was dubbed into Tamil as Madurai Mappilai and into Hindi as Main Hoon Gambler.

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