Seema Sastri

Seema Sastri is a 2007 Telugu action comedy directed by G. Nageswara Reddy, starring Allari Naresh as a Brahmin boy who falls for the daughter of a Rayalaseema faction family, opposite Farjana. Released on 16 November 2007, it drew mixed reviews that enjoyed its humour, action and songs but found fault with the writing, and it did well commercially. It was later remade in Kannada as Super Shastri (2012) and dubbed into Hindi as Guru Mahaguru.

What the story is about

Subramanya Sastri falls in love with Surekha Reddy, who lives with relatives in Hyderabad. Only after he has lost his heart does he learn that she belongs to a well-known faction family from Rayalaseema. The rest of the film is about how Sastri and his family set about winning over the factionists, with comedy rather than violence.

Cast and crew

• Allari Naresh as Subramanya Sastri
• Farjana as Surekha Reddy
• Ali as Lambodhara Sastri
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Peddi Reddy
• L. B. Sriram as Shankar Sastri
• M. S. Narayana as Vaikunta Sastri
• Brahmanandam as Panthulu
• Raghu Babu as Gangi Reddy
• Krishna Bhagavan and Dharmavarapu Subramanyam

Director: G. Nageswara Reddy. Music: Vandemataram Srinivas, five songs.

Music

The soundtrack was launched on 28 August 2007 at the Kalinga Cultural Centre in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, where E. V. V. Satyanarayana and Rajasekhar released the audio cassette and V. V. Vinayak received the first copy. The songs include “Indha Andamaina”, sung by Karthik, and “Mancham Vesi”, sung by Jassie Gift and Kalpana.

Reviews

Critics found it crude but fun. Idlebrain said that “if you can ignore illogical scenes and vulgarity, it is a decent comedy film that does not bore you”. Telugu Cinema felt it “provides enough laughs” despite vulgar dialogue and an illogical plot, and Full Hyderabad called it “worth a trip to the box office if you’re in the mood for some lightweight timepass”.

Box office

The film was a commercial success: the trade site T2BLive credits it with a distributors’ share of ₹5 crore.

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