Gabbar Singh (film)
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 Film poster |
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| Directed by | Harish Shankar |
| Produced by | Bandla Ganesh |
| Written by | Abhinav Kashyap |
| Screenplay by | Satish Vegesna Ramesh Reddy[1] |
| Story by | Dileep Shukla Abhinav Kashyap |
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| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
| Cinematography | Jayanan Vincent |
| Editing by | Gowtham Raju |
| Studio | Parameswara Art Productions |
| Distributed by | Sri Venkateswara Film Distributors (Nizam) BlueSky Cinemas (USA) |
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| Running time | 152 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Budget |  30 crore (US$5.5 million)[3] |
| Box office | 150 crore (US$27 million)[4] |
Gabbar Singh is a 2012 Telugu action film directed by Harish Shankar. The film is produced by Bandla Ganesh under Parameswara Art productions banner and stars Pawan Kalyan and Shruti Haasan in lead roles. Devi Sri Prasad, who previously worked with Pawan Kalyan in Jalsa, composed the soundtrack for the film. The film is an adaptation of the 2010 Hindi film Dabangg.[5] The film was released worldwide on May 11, 2012.[2] The film set a box office record for the Telugu Film Industry by collecting a gross of more than 1.5 billion.[4]
Plot
Venkata Ratnam Naidu, a young boy, lives with his younger half-brother (Ajay), stepfather Naidu (Nagineedu) and mother (Suhasini Maniratnam) in Kondaveedu, a village in Guntur District. His stepfather is always partial towards his half brother which constantly angers Venkata Ratnam. He starts to not care about what other people think about him, and renames himself after "Gabbar Singh", a popular antagonist character from Sholay. His anger towards his brother and father grows and he runs away from home. His stepfather, Naidu catches him and joins him in a boarding school away from Kondaveedu.
21 years later, a scene shows a gang of robbers trying to steal money from a bank in Kondaveedu, when Gabbar Singh (Pawan Kalyan), now a cop, tries to recover the money by beating up the robbers. It is revealed that Gabbar Singh is now posted as a Circle Inspector for the Kondaveedu region. His anger towards his brother and Naidu remains the same, and lives separately from them. He wants to live with his mother in his new house, but she instead wants him to stay with her and Naidu. Ajay is a gambling addict and has loans all over the village. Gabbar Singh falls in love with a handicraft vendor named Bhagya Lakshmi (Shruti Haasan), whom he chances upon during a police raid that he conducts against gambling.
It is revealed that the robbers who tried to steal are actually the henchmen of an upcoming politician names Siddhappa Naidu (Abhimanyu Singh). He with the help of his uncle (Tanikella Bharani) want to be an MLA of Kondaveedu. He meets Gabbar Singh and tries to appreciate him for catching the robbers. Gabbar Singh flatly refuses and tells Siddhappa that he actually knows who he is and tells him to behave himself.
Angered by Gabbar Singh's response, Siddhappa Naidu sends goons to disrupt the market yard in Kondaveedu. Gabbar Singh confronts the goons and defeats them with ease to reopen the market yard. Even more enraged, Siddhappa now plans to kill Gabbar Singh but his uncle instead advises him to speak with the Minister (Rao Ramesh) about transferring Gabbar Singh out of Kondaveedu. Siddhappa and his uncle meet the minister, who simply denies their request stating that Gabbar Singh is a sincere and honest cop and transferring him during the elections would be bad for the party. He also advises Siddhappa to make peace with Gabbar Singh or it would hurt his political aspirations.
Meanwhile, Gabbar Singh meets Bhagya Lakshmi and proposes marriage. She rejects it saying that she has to look after her father (Kota Srinivasa Rao), who is always drunk and she cannot marry while he is alive. Gabbar Singh then comes home to find his mother dead. He goes to his stepfather to make peace, as he is the only family left. His stepfather rejects and despises him as an outcast. Gabbar Singh is then attacked at the handicraft exhibition by Siddhappa's men, when he is with Bhagya Lakshmi; he kills all of them in a fight and goes to Siddhappa's house. He confronts Siddhappa and warns him to stop bothering him and tells him that he will not allow Siddhappa to become a MLA for Kondaveedu.
Provoked by Siddhappa's men, Gabbar Singh's brother hits one of his creditors brutally and injuring him. Siddhappa calls the police station to warn them about the fight. Gabbar Singh beats up his brother in public, thus disgracing him. Siddhappa decides to take advantage of the situation and suspend Gabbar Singh. He takes Gabbar Singh's brother and his father to the police station. But Naidu resolves the situation by accepting an apology from Gabbar Singh. Angered by the outcome, Siddhappa tells Gabbar Singh that something big will happen in the next 24 hours and tells him to stop it if he can. Gabbar Singh interrogates the henchmen of Siddhappa and finds out that Siddhappa arranged the marriage of Bhagya lakshmi with a local merchant by paying her father a lot of money. Gabbar Singh goes to the wedding and confronts Bhagya Lakshmi whether she loves him or not. Bhagya Lakshmi reveals her love and Gabbar marries her in the same event.
Siddhappa, as a last effort tries to bribe the high command to get a party nomination to contest in the election. He offers 5 crores to get the ticket. Gabbar Singh comes to know of the arrangement and steals the money that Siddhappa sends to the high command. Gabbar Singh's brother in desperate need of money is approached by Siddhappa. He offers help and money and in exchange asks him to work for his elections. Siddhappa orders him to deliver a cellphone and a box of sweets to the Minister's house. But, unknown to him, a bomb is placed in the sweet box. After he leaves the house, it explodes, killing the Minister. Knowing that it was Gabbar Singh's brother who did the blast, the police commissioner (Jaya Prakash Reddy) suspends Gabbar Singh. Gabbar Singh confronts his stepfather Naidu tells him about his brother. Naidu suffers a heart attack after hearing the news and is hospitalized. Gabbar Singh takes care of Naidu at the hospital, thus bonding again. Gabbar's brother who is shocked by the events and the blast is convinced by Siddhappa to kill Gabbar before the later catches him. Although he has no intention to kill his brother, he accepts to do it to escape from them and meets Gabbar Singh. He confesses to Gabbar that he was sent to kill him by Siddhappa. He reveals to Gabbar that Siddhappa made him plant the bomb and that he never knew what was in the box. Gabbar tries to take him to the commissioner for a confession against Siddhappa. But Siddhappa calls Gabbar on his phone and reveals to him that he killed Gabbar's mother. In a final battle, Gabbar arrives to Siddhappa's house and takes down the goons and kills Siddhappa. In the final scene it is shown that, Gabbar Singh hires most of the Siddhappa henchmen and gives them police jobs.
Cast
- Pawan Kalyan as Venkataratnam Naidu aka Gabbar Singh
- Shruti Haasan as Bhagyalakshmi
- Kota Srinivasa Rao as Bhagyalakshmi's Drunkard Father
- Nagineedu as Naidu
- Rao Ramesh as Minister
- Abhimanyu Singh as Siddhappa Naidu
- Ajay as Gabbar Singh's Brother
- Suhasini Maniratnam as Gabbar Singh's Mother
- Brahmanandam as Recovery Ranjith Kumar
- Ali as Constable Samba
- Tanikella Bharani as uncle of Siddhappa Naidu
- Gayatri Rao as shop girl working with Bhagyalakshmi
- Jaya Prakash Reddy as Police commissioner
- Malaika Arora in the Item number "Kevvu Keka"
- Master Aakash as Gabbar Singh at age 10.
- Venugopal as Banda Swami, Siddhappa's henchman
- Prabhas Sreenu as Siddhappa's henchman
- Fish Venkat as Siddhappa's henchman
- Praveen as Ranjith Kumar's assistant
- Dhanaraj
- Prithvi
- Harshavardhan (actor) as Doctor
Release
The film was released worldwide on May 11, 2012.[2]
Critical reception
The movie received extremely positive response from movie-going audiences. 123Telugu.com termed it as "A Solid Entertainer".[6] Idlebrain.com termed it as "Pawan Strikes".[7] Greatandhra.com termed as "Power of Pawanism".[8]
Box office
Gabbar Singh created a new opening day box office record and subsequently created the records for the highest grossing weekend and highest grossing first week in the Telugu film industry.[9] It also stands amongst highest openers ever in the Indian film industry. On its first day the film grossed approximately 18 crores generating a net share of approximately 13 crores.[9] The film has collected a record net share of 42.55 crores worldwide with a record first week share of 28 crores from Andhra Pradesh alone.[10][11] At the end of two weeks the film has collected a record share of 51.85 crores world wide.[12] The total three weeks share of the film now stands at 58 crores.[13] The film has grossed more than US$1 million at the United States box office.According to Business Standard website, the film has collected 128.75 crore (US$24 million) gross in three weeks.[14] The film has completed 50 days in 307 centres on June 29, 2012.Sources add that "Gabbar Singh" has also registered another record of running in 250 direct centers.[15] The film has shattered the box office collections records and has created a new history by raking around 63 crores share after 50 days run.[16] According to India Today website, Gabbar Singh has emerged as the highest grossing Telugu film by grossing more than 150 crore (US$27 million) in 60 days worldwide.[4] The film has completed 100 days in 65 centres on August 18, 2012.[17]
Home media
The VCD's, DVD's & Blu-ray Disc's of the film were released by Sri Balaji Videos on August 22, 2012 on the occasion of Mega star Chiranjeevi's birthday.[18] The television rights were bagged by Gemini TV for a price of around 6 crores and was telecasted on January 14, 2013 on the occasion of Sankranthi festival.[19]
Awards and nominations
| Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| TSR - TV9 National Film Awards 2012[20] | Best Playblack Singer - Male
"Ey Pillaa" |
Vaddepalli Srinivas | Won |
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. On April 15, 2012, Pawan Kalyan along with Bandla Ganesh, Harish Shankar and few others visited Tirumala, where they released the first song from the film. Soon after that they went to Visakhapatnam and visited Simhachalam Temple where they released the second song from the film. The audio was released on April 15, 2012 through Aditya Music label and audio launch event took place at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad on the same day. Popular Telugu actor Kota Srinivasa Rao lent his vocals for a song in the film. Lyrics for the two songs were penned by Sahithi and remaining songs were written by Ramajogayya Sastry, Chandrabose, Devi Sri Prasad and Bhaskarabhatla.[21]
| Gabbar Singh | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by Devi Sri Prasad | ||||
| Released | April 15, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2012 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 23:08 | |||
| Language | Telugu | |||
| Label | Aditya Music | |||
| Producer | Devi Sri Prasad | |||
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| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Dekho Dekho Gabbar Singh" | Ramajogayya Sastry | Baba Sehgal & Naveen Madhav | 4:21 | ||||||
| 2. | "Akasam Ammayaithe" | Chandrabose | Shankar Mahadevan & Gopika Poornima | 4:53 | ||||||
| 3. | "Mandu Baabulam" | Sahithi | Kota Srinivasa Rao & Chorus | 1:35 | ||||||
| 4. | "Pillaa" | Devi Sri Prasad | Vaddepalli Srinivas & Pawan Kalyan | 3:49 | ||||||
| 5. | "Dil Se" | Bhaskarabhatla | Karthik & Swetha Mohan | 4:23 | ||||||
| 6. | "Kevvu Keka" | Sahithi | Mamta Sharma & Murali | 4:07 | ||||||
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Remakes
The original Hindi film Dabangg, directed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap, was remade in several languages and still found success in the respective regional cinemas. The film was remade in Tamil as Osthi in 2011 which was also directed by S. Dharani. Malaika Arora appears both in Hindi and Telugu versions while Sonu Sood reprises his original role in Tamil.
References
- ^ Gabbar Singh audio on April 15 – Telugu Movie News. IndiaGlitz (April 06, 2012). Retrieved on May 12, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Pawan Kalyan’s Gabbar Singh grand release". Way2movies. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
- ^ Rajani Kanth & Varada Bhat, K (June 02, 2012). "Gabbar Singh on a roll at the box office". business-standard.com. Retrieved June 02, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Gabbar Singh emerges as highest grosser at Box Office". India Today. Retrieved July 19, 2012 UPDATED 14:11 IST.
- ^ "Friday Release: Dabangg's Telugu remake Gabbar Singh". ibnlive.in.com. Retrieved May 10, 2012 at 07:41pm IST.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh Review". Retrieved May 14, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh film review - Pawan Kalyan & Shruti Hassan". Idlebrain.com. May 11, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ "'Gabbar Singh' Review: Power Of Pawanism!!". Greatandhra.com. May 11, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ a b "'Gabbar Singh' First Week Collections Created a New Record". Supergoodmovies.com. May 19, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ TNN (May 19, 2012). "Gabbar Singh First Week Collections - Times Of India". The Times of India. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ "Power Star Stamina !!! ~ Telugu News". News.manjublog.com. May 20, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh All Time Industry Record". 123telugu.com. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ Sashidhar AS, TNN (June 1, 2012). "Pawan Kalyan’s "Gabbar Singh" juggernaut continues... - Times Of India". The Times of India. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh on a roll at the box office". business-standard.com. Retrieved Jun 02, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh 50 days in 307 centers?". The Times of India. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh 50 days collections list". The Times of India. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ "I thank Pawan Kalyan for Gabbar Singh: Ganesh Babu". The Times of India. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh VCD,DVD & Blu ray disc release". sribalajivideo.com. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh Movie Satellite Rights 6 Crores Bagged by Gemini TV". timesofap.com. May, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2013 at 04:46 PM IST.
- ^ "TSR TV9 National film awards for 2011 and 2012 winners announcement press meet". idlebrain.com. April 18, 2013. Retrieved April 21, 2013 at 04:19 PM IST.
- ^ "Gabbar Singh Music Review". Way2movies. Retrieved October 12, 2012.
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