Janda Pai Kapiraju
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Genre Action, Thriller Music director G. V. Prakash Kumar Country India | 7/10 IMDb Director Samuthirakani Featured song Rajadhi Raja Cinematography M. Sukumar Language Telugu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 21, 2015 (2015-03-21) Cast Nani (Maya Kannan), Amala Paul , Ragini Dwivedi , Siva Balaji , Vennela Kishore Similar movies Nani appears in Janda Pai Kapiraju and Yevade Subramanyam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Janda Pai Kapiraju (English: Lord Hanuman on the Flag) is a 2015 Indian Telugu political action film written and directed by Samuthirakani featuring Nani and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The film's soundtrack and background score were composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar. This film was simultaneously made in Tamil as Nimirndhu Nil with Jayam Ravi and also dubbed in Hindi with same title. While the Tamil version with Jayam Ravi released in 2014 and went on to become a BlockBuster, the Telugu version released only on 21 March 2015 to negative reviews and became a flop. Nani played a dual role in his career for the first time.
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Plot
Arvind Shivashankar (Nani), who came to the city from a rural area, is a naive employee in a company. He cannot tolerate corruption, bribery, breaking rules, lavishness, and the urban culture of youth in cities. He is caught by traffic police for a minor mistake though not of his own. Although he has all documents with him, he is asked a bribe by traffic policeman. When he refuses to pay the bribe, a complaint is booked against him and he is sentenced by the court, even though he complains about the bribe.
Finally, he does a sting operation with two of his friends and 10 honest employees in various government offices by applying for identity cards like PAN card, voter card, and ration card for an anonymous person.
Cast
Production
The film was launched on 1 August 2013 at Annapurna Studios. The film's first schedule of shooting started a day later. Nani plays dual roles - that of a 24-year-old and of an 18-year-old. Amala Paul will play the female lead in both the versions. The movie will be produced by KS Sreenivasan's Vaasan Visual Ventures. Meghana Raj was reported to have an important role in the film, but she said on Twitter that she was not acting in the film. Ragini Dwivedi was roped in to play an important role. By March 2013, shooting of the movie was said to be 50% complete and first look was launched on Nani's birthday. The next schedule began in the same month in Hyderabad whose duration was of 3 weeks in which scenes on Nani and Amala were shot. On 26 November 2013 Nani on his Twitter revealed the looks of his Dual roles. On 5 December 2013 a press note was released which revealed that the film's shoot was wrapped up that day. The movie released on 21 March 2015.
Soundtrack
G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the Music for both the Telugu and Tamil Versions which featured the same soundtrack. The Audio was launched on Saregama Music Label at Shilpakala Vedika, Hyderabad on 28 December 2013. All lyrics written by Anantha Sreeram.
References
Janda Pai Kapiraju WikipediaJanda Pai Kapiraju IMDb