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Director
  
Y.V.S Chowdary

Release date
  
January 11, 2006 (India)

Budget
  
70 million INR

Country
  
India

5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Romance

Music director
  
Chakri

Duration
  

Language
  
Telugu

Ileana D'Cruz and Ram Pothineni are posing with a fierce look in the movie poster of the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

Release date
  
11 January 2006

Writer
  
Ramana Chintapally (dialogue), Y.V.S. Chowdary (screenplay), Y.V.S. Chowdary (story)

Directors
  
YVS Chowdary, Gopireddy Mallikarjuna Reddy

Cast
  
Ileana D'Cruz
(Bhanumathi Katamraju),
Sayaji Shinde
(Katamraju),
Ram Pothineni
(Devadas),
Shriya Saran
,
M. S. Narayana
,
Venu Madhav

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Ileana DCruz and Venu Madhav appear in Devadasu and Pokiri

Devadasu is a Tollywood film that released on 11 January 2006 and was directed and produced by YVS Chowdary. Debutants Ram and Ileana D'Cruz play the main leads while Sayaji Shinde plays the negative role. Indian actress Shriya Saran sizzles the audience with a special role.This film also won 2 Filmfare Awards South. This film was both Ram's and Ileana D'Cruz's debut film as artists. The movie Dubbed in Malayalam as Devdas also remade in Bengali as Paglu (2011). It was later dubbed in Hindi as Sabse Bada Dilwala.

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Ileana D'Cruz and Ram Pothineni are smiling while staring at each other in a scene from the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

Plot

On the left, is the movie poster of the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu while on the right, Ileana D'Cruz and Ram Pothineni are posing in the desert

Devadas (Ram) is the typical poor student, while Bhanumati (Ileana) is a rich NRI girl whose father is the senator of New York. They fall in love when the girl comes to India to learn classical Carnatic music. Coming to know about their love, Bhanu’s father Katamraju (Sayaji Shinde) hatches a plan to separate them. He promises to get them married but he takes his daughter and his mother back to USA. The rest of the story is how the street-smart lover boy makes it to USA and succeeds in attaining his girl.

Cast

Ileana D'Cruz standing while wearing a yellow and green top and skirt and Ram Pothineni's face in the background in the movie poster of the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

  • Ram as Devdas
  • Ileana D'Cruz as Bhanumati
  • Sayaji Shinde as Katamraju
  • M S Narayana
  • Shriya Saran as herself (Cameo)
  • Y.V.S Chowdary as himself (Cameo)
  • Chakri as himself (Cameo)
  • Manuel Drieschmanns as the embassy employee

    • Crew

    Ram Pothineni smiling while wearing a red polo while Ileana D'Cruz wearing a pink top and pants in the movie poster of the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

  • Director: Y.V.S Chowdary
  • Producer: Y.V.S Chowdary
  • Story: Y.V.S Chowdary
  • Screenplay: M.S Prakash
  • Dialogues: Chintapalli Ramana
  • Action Director: Vijay
  • Music: Chakri
  • Lyrics: Sirivennela & Chandrabose
  • Director of Photography: Bharani K. Dharan
  • Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
  • Choreographers: Tara, Brinda, Rajasekhar, Rakesh, & Krishna Reddy
  • Art Director: Anand Sai

    • Box office performance

    Ileana D'Cruz is reading a book while Ram Pothineni is leaning on her shoulder with two bulldogs beside them in the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

  • The film's total gross is around Rs.17 crores.
  • This film ran for 175 days in 17 theatres, including a 205-day run in Odeon 70 mm, Hyderabad.

    • Awards

    On the left, Ileana D'Cruz and Ram Pothineni looking at each other with their dogs while on the right, Ileana is smiling and Ram is wearing purple long sleeves

  • Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut - South - Ram
  • Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut - South - Ileana D'Cruz

    • Ileana D'Cruz standing while wearing a yellow and green top and skirt and Ram Pothineni's face in the background in the movie poster of the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

    Ileana D'Cruz looking at something with furrowed brow while wearing maang tikka and a yellow and blue dress in a scene from the 2006 Tollywood film, Devadasu

    Ileana D'Cruz smiling while her hand is on her head and the other hand is on her waist and she is wearing a blue beaded top, blue pants, and jewelry

    References

    Devadasu (2006 film) Wikipedia
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    Devadasu (2006 film) IMDb Devadasu (2006 film) themoviedb.org