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Tulasi (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tulasi' is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action drama film, produced by D.Suresh Babu on Suresh Productions banner and directed by Boyapati Srinu. It stars Venkatesh, Nayantara in lead roles and music is composed by Devi Sri Prasad.
Plot
Parvataneni Tulasi Ram is a native of Rayalaseema. As his region is well known for factional feuds, his father Dasaratha Ramayya keeps him away in Hyderabad, gets him educated, and makes him an architect. Once, he comes across Vasundhara and later marries her. When Vasu turns pregnant, Tulasi takes her to their native place. Tulasi turns violent when a rival faction pushes his father. Later, the factional feuds continue to haunt him. When Vasu's brother Harsha dies in the attack by factionists, Vasu could not digest the violence and deserts Tulasi with their son Harsha. Later, Tulasi learns that Harsha has a blood clot in his brain, and it may cause a hemorrhage. With the help of Dr. Surekha, Tulasi summons specialists from abroad to get Harsha operated on. When everything is ready for the surgery, a gangster takes away the boy as both of his sons were killed by Tulasi. In the climax, Tulasi kills the gangster to save his son's life. The film ends with Vasu and Tulasi reuniting.
Cast
* Venkatesh as Parvataneni Tulasi Ram
* Nayantara as Vasundhara
* Master Atulith as Harsha
* Ashish Vidyarthi as an underworld gangster
* Rahul Dev as Basavaraju
* Vijaykumar as Parvataneni Dasaratha Ramayya
* Sivaji as Harsha, Vasu's brother
* Ali
* Ramya Krishnan as Dr. Surekha
* Ahuti Prasad as Tulasi's uncle
* Subbaraju as the gangster's elder son
* Riyaz Khan as the gangster's younger son
* Jhansi as Kokapet Aunty
* Jaya Prakash Reddy as Ramayya's rival
* Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao
* Raghu Babu
* Ravi Babu
* Tanikella Bharani
* Naramalli Sivaprasad
* Uttej
* Narsing Yadav
* Banerjee
* Bandla Ganesh
* Sameer
* Chitram Seenu
* Dr. Siva Prasad
* Siva Parvathi
* Shravan
* Tarzan
* Sravani
* Devisri
* Saraswatamma
* Shriya in a guest appearance in the song "Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini"
Soundtrack
Music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Music released on ADITYA Music Company. Audio of 'Tulasi' was launched at a function arranged in the song set at Rama Naidu studios in the evening of 22 September 2007. K. Raghavendra Rao, D. Ramanaidu and KL Narayana attended this function as guests. K. Raghavendra Rao released the audio cassette and gave the first unit to D. Ramanaidu. D. Ramanaidu released the audio CD and gave the first unit to Shriya Saran.
Release
The film released with 290 prints worldwide, in 312 screens in India which includes 20 screens in Andhra Pradesh, 21 screens in Karnataka and 7 screens in Tamil Nadu. The film had a 50-day run in 225 centres and was declared a super hit. It was later dubbed and released in Tamil and Malayalam with the same title and in Hindi as 'The Real Man Hero'.
Box office
* The film has undergone the theatrical business of 12 crores and grossed 32 crores during its full run and got distributor share of 18.43 crores and emerged as Super Hit
* It has grossed Rs. 120 million in 12 days.
*TV rights sold for Rs. 20 million.
* It is the first Telugu film to complete 50 days direct in 225 theatres across Andhra.
Awards
*Jhansi won Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian(in Telugu)
References
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