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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Don Seenu
| image = Don_Seenu_Soundtrack.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Promotional poster
| director = Gopichand Malineni
| story = Gopichand Malineni
| producer = R. R. Venkat
| writer =
| screenplay = Kona Venkat
Gopichand Malineni
| starring =
| music = Mani Sharma
| cinematography = Sameer Reddy
| editing = Gautham Raju
| studio = R. R. Movie Makers
| distributor =
| released =
| runtime = 165 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = 30 crore
}}
'Don Seenu' is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by debutant Gopichand Malineni who co-wrote the film with Kona Venkat. The film stars Ravi Teja, Srihari, Shriya Saran and Anjana Sukhani. Music has been scored by Mani Sharma. The film was released on 6 August 2010. The film's title is noted to be similar to 'Dubai Seenu', another Ravi Teja starrer. The film was remade in Bengali as 'Badsha The Don'.
Plot
This story is all about an ambitious boy named Seenu alias Srinivasa Rao (Ravi Teja) who dreams of becoming a don. He has always liked to be called 'Don' Seenu since childhood due to the strong influence of the Amitabh Bachchan staring 'Don'. He grows up with just one passion that of becoming the World's No: 1 Don. Thanks to his enterprising nature, he gains access to the cream of the city's dons, and uses his cleverness to play off the top two Madhapur Machiraju (Sayaji Shinde) and Narsingh (Srihari), fierce rivals against each other. Seenu wants to join one of these dons and grow up in the ranks. He joins hands with Machiraju. In the process, he is given a task to go to Germany and win the heart of Narsing's sister whose marriage is fixed with the son of the super don Naveen Duggal (Mahesh Manjrekar). Seenu goes to Germany and wins the heart of Deepthi (Shriya Saran) and later, he discovers that he was shown the wrong girl. The wrong girl is none another than the sister of Machiraju. Then when Machiraju discovers that his henchman is the one who showed the wrong girl, Machiraju attempts to kill his henchman. This leads to various turns in the plot. What happens next is all about how Seenu achieves his dream of becoming a don and living happily with Deepthi or does he?
Cast
* Ravi Teja as Srinivasa Rao aka Don Seenu, a die-hard fan of Amitabh Bachchan who adores his film Don a lot. Right from his childhood, he calls himself Don Seenu. His life ambition is to become a don in Hyderabad one day. He makes Deepti and Priya fall in love with him in Germany in order to achieve his ambition.
* Srihari as Narsing, a famous don in Hyderabad. Machiraju is his enemy in the race to dominate Hyderabad.
* Shriya Saran as Deepti, Machiraju's sister. As she is going to Germany, Seenu followed her, loved her, and thought she was Narsing's sister.
* Anjana Sukhani as Priya, Narsing's sister. As Seenu misunderstood that Deepti is Narsing's sister and made her fall in love with him, he also makes Priya fall in love with him.
* Sayaji Shinde as Madhapur Machiraju, another famous don in Hyderabad. As he wants to demolish Narsing from dominating Hyderabad, he sends Seenu, his worker, to woo Priya. Seenu soon makes Deepti fall in love with him. Machiraju starts to think of killing Seenu with Narsing's help.
* Kasthuri as Lakshmi, Seenu's sister and Narsing's wife. She and Narsing have a son.
* Brahmanandam as Vishwas
* Ali as Rama Rao / Rams
* Mahesh Manjrekar as Mukesh Duggal / Duggal'saab'
* John Kokken as Praveen Duggal
* Sudha as Bhavani, Seenu's mother
* Satyam Rajesh as Seenu's friend
* Raghubabu as Tambaraju (Narsing's henchman)
* Duvvasi Mohan as Narsing's gang member
* Raja Ravindra as Narsing's secret informer
* Brahmaji as Bobby, Machiraju's henchman
* Surekha Vani as Machiraju's wife
* Raghu Karumanchi as Machiraju's henchman
* Fish Venkat as Machiraju's henchman
* Banerjee as Duggal's henchman
* Venu Madhav as Madhu Pitre
* Vijay Sai as Seenu's friend
* Nalla Venu as bar waiter
* Yashpal Sharma as Baiju
* Gundu Sudarshan as Accountant
* Prabhas Sreenu as Seenu's friend
* Delhi Rajeswari
Soundtrack
'Don Seenu's soundtrack is composed by Mani Sharma. The soundtrack album, which was released on 22 July at Taj Deccan Hotel in Hyderabad, Noted director Dasari Narayana Rao released the first audio CD, whereas movie mughal D. Ramanaidu released the audio cassette. It features 6 songs, with one being a remix.
Production and release
Trisha was signed as the lead but she was replaced by Shriya Saran later, which marks her return to Telugu cinema after five years. Hindi film actress Anjana Sukhani was signed also signed as a lead. The film was released on 6 August 2010 in India and ran for over 50 days in theatres. The film recorded as Super hit at the box office.
Critical response
A reviewer for Indiaglitz called the screenplay an "eyesore", noting an imbalance in pacing between the first and second halves. Praise was directed at Ravi Teja's performance as well as the abundance of humour throughout the film.
References
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