Veera: An Arrow Head of Action is a 2011 Telugu-language action comedy film, produced by Ganesh Indukuri under Sanvi Productions banner and directed by Ramesh Varma. It stars Ravi Teja, Kajal Aggarwal, and Taapsee Pannu, with music composed by S. Thaman. The cinematography was performed by Chota K. Naidu, and the film was released on 20 May 2011. The film had completed 50 days in 60 centres[citation needed] and a 100-day run at the box office according to Zee 24 Gantalu.[1] The film was released in Tamil as Veeraiyaah, in Hindi as The Great Veera in 2012, in Malayalam as Veera[2] in 2017, and also in Bhojpuri as Veera. In 2021, Manish Shah from Goldmines Telefilms dubbed the movie in Hindustani under the same name.
| Veera | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Ramesh Varma |
| Written by | Paruchuri Brothers |
| Produced by | Ganesh Indukuri |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Chota K. Naidu |
| Edited by | Gautham Raju |
| Music by | S. Thaman |
Production company | Sanvi Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Plot edit
Shyamsunder (Shaam) is an honest ACP who comes into conflict with the local don, Dhanraj (Rahul Dev). The goons kill Shyam's son, Moksha, and Shyam does not reveal this to his family but fears the villains may kill his daughter also. Dhanraj threatens Shyam's family so the police department arranges for an officer to provide security for them. Deva arrives, saves Shyam from Dhanraj's men, and introduces himself as the security officer. Shyam's family still believes that their son is in the boarding school and waits for his call on a Sunday, but instead, they are told their son went on an excursion. Shyam gets tensed and reveals everything to Deva. When he goes to drop Anjali (ACP's daughter) at school with Tiger (Brahmanandam), with whom he shares his room, he meets Aiki (Tapsee Pannu), who later falls for him.
Shyam's wife Sathya (Sridevi Vijaykumar) dislikes Deva and doesn't want him involved with her family while Aiki falls in love with him. Shyam learns that Deva is not the security officer appointed by the police department. It is revealed that Deva is Veera (Ravi Teja), a person who is like a god to the whole village. He kills the security officer Deva (who works for Dhanraj) and replaces him. Sathya is his step-sister. In the pre-interval scene, Dhanraj comes to kill Shyam and his family, and Veera bashes them badly and protects his sister's family. But when Dhanraj tries to kill them, he gets killed by Pedda Rayudu (Pradeep Rawat) who suddenly arrives and introduces himself as the nemesis of Veera and shoots him. Veera loses consciousness.
A police officer sends Veera to Shyam's family. After the interval, the flashback begins. Veera was a powerful and kind-hearted landlord of a village. Every villager loved him very much. He lived with his younger brother, friends, and his beautiful wife Chitra (Kajal Aggarwal). But there was another landlord, Pedda Rayudu, who wanted to vacate the whole village to build a factory. But Veera opposes him. Pedda tries to torture the villagers and Veera beats him badly. Veera's younger brother marries the daughter of the officer, who later sends Veera to Shyam's family. Embarrassed, the wife of Pedda kills herself. Pedda became angry and killed Veera's entire family, including Chitti who was pregnant, when Veera was not present. When Veera finds out, he killed all of Pedda's henchmen. Pedda was supposed to die in an explosion, but he survives. Veera doesn't know that Pedda had survived. Sathya blames Veera for the death of their family. That's why Sathya disliked Veera. Later, Veera comes to the city to save his step-sister's family. The flashback episode ends.
Pedda challenges Veera and after a long fight between the two, Veera kills Pedda and takes his revenge. Then Aiki proposes to Veera and he agrees. And he reunites with his sister happily.
Cast edit
- Ravi Teja as Veera / Deva
- Kajal Aggarwal as Chitra "Chitti"
- Taapsee Pannu as Aiki
- Sridevi Vijayakumar as Satya
- Kick Shaam as Shyamsunder
- Brahmanandam as Tiger
- Roja as Satya's mother
- Pradeep Rawat as Pedda Venkata Rayudu
- Rahul Dev as Dhanraj
- Murali Sharma as Raju, Pedda Rayudu's son
- Ali as Pataas
- Nassar as Veera's father
- Charanraj
- Vijayakumar
- Avinash
- Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Shyam's father
- Sudha as Shyam's mother
- Telangana Shakuntala as Chitti's grandmother
- Annapoorna as Satya's grandmother
- Nagababu as DGP K. Vijaykumar
- Ajay as Deva
- Krishnudu as Anji
- Praveen as Veera's friend
- Divya Vani as Pedda Rayudu's wife
- Venu Madhav as Balaji
- Prabhakar as Brother in law of Pedda Venkata Rayudu #1
- Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Aiki's father
- Chalapathi Rao
- Subbaraju as Vijay Shrivastav
- Pragathi as Veera's mother
- Hema as Aiki's mother
- Srinivasa Reddy
- Fish Venkat as Dhanraj's henchman
- Master Bharath as Aiki's brother
Production edit
In January 2010, the first look of Veera was released by Sanvi Productions, the producers of the film, with Ravi Teja in the lead role and Ramesh Varma as the director.[3] Furthermore, a leading technical crew was announced with Devi Sri Prasad as a music composer, Chota K. Naidu as cinematographer, Marthand K. Venkatesh as editor and the Paruchuri brothers as writers.[4] The casting process began in June 2010 with Anushka Shetty was signed on to play the lead female role with Taapsee Pannu selected to play a supporting role in the film.[5] Anushka walked out of the project before filming began and was subsequently replaced by Kajal Aggarwal, whilst Devi Sri Prasad was also replaced by Thaman.[6] Shaam and Sridevi Vijayakumar were also signed on to play a supporting role in the film.
After further delays, the film began its first schedule in November 2010 at Madhapur Art Gallery in Hyderabad.[7] The filming was wrapped in May 2011 at Switzerland after shooting a couple of romantic songs.[8]
Soundtrack edit
| Veera | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 7 May 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 31:01 | |||
| Language | Telugu | |||
| Label | Aditya Music | |||
| Producer | S. Thaman | |||
| S. Thaman chronology | ||||
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The audio release of the film was done in a very simple manner. Music director S. Thaman, director Gopichand Malineni, Aditya Music CEO Dayanand, and B.A. Raju was present at the function. S. Thaman released the CD and handed it over to Gopichand Malineni.
S. Thaman said that since the entire unit is present in Switzerland as of now busy with the shooting he was organizing this audio release and songs in the movie are according to the body language of Ravi Teja and also informed that NTR old classic Mavilla thota kada was remixed in the movie according to the requirement.[9]
The movie has celebrated its triple platinum disc function in Taj Deccan. Ravi Teja, Brahmanandam, Sridevi Vijaykumar, Ali, Chota K Naidu, Ram-Lakshman, Dayanand, S. Thaman and others were present at the function.[10]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ekkadekkada" | Ramajogayya Sastry | Ramya NSK | 4:29 |
| 2. | "O Meri Bhavri" | Rahman | S. Thaman & Bindu Mahima | 4:42 |
| 3. | "Chitti Chitti" | Bhaskarabhatla | Karthik, Geetha Madhuri | 4:30 |
| 4. | "Chinnari (Montage Bit)" | Sira Sri | Karthik | 2:36 |
| 5. | "Hossanam" | Bhaskarabhatla | Karthik (Uncredited), Roshini, Ranjith | 5:28 |
| 6. | "Mavilla (Remix)" | Bandaru Danayya Kavi | Ganga, Khushi Murali | 4:55 |
| 7. | "Veera Veera" | Abhinaya Srinivas | Ranina Reddy, M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Chorus | 4:18 |
| Total length: | 31:01 | |||
Reception edit
Veera received mixed to negative reviews from critics. A critic from The Times of India gave the film a rating of 2/5 and wrote that "After testing new waters previously, in “Veera” we see actor Ravi Teja treading the tried-and-tested formula film path yet again. “Veera” will only appeal to the front-bench fans of Ravi Teja".[11] A critic from Rediff wrote: "tedious watch".[12] A critic from Sify wrote: "Veera is only fine in parts wherever Ravi Teja is shown in a mass dimension. There is unnecessary violence and the screenplay is hackneyed. Director Ramesh Varma was purely focusing to showcase Ravi Teja on the lines of a superhero but he failed miserably".[13]
References edit
- ^ "Veera movie completed 100 days". YouTube. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "Veera Malayalam Dubbed Full Movie Free Download". Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
- ^ "Ravi Teja's 'Veera' to go on sets - Telugu Movie News". IndiaGlitz. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Ramesh Varma's Veera With Bellamkonda Suresh and Ramesh Verma". CineGoer.com. 25 January 2010. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Taapsi and Ravi Teja in 'Veera' film". Supergoodmovies.com. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2010.
- ^ "Kajal replaces Anushka". Sify. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Ravi Teja's Veera shoot commences". Sify. Archived from the original on 28 November 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Ravi "Teja and Kajal fly to Switzerland". The Times of India.
- ^ "Veera Audio Release". Supergoodmovies.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ^ "Veera Triple Platinum disc Function". Supergoodmovies.com. Archived from the original on 28 May 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "Veera Movie Review {2/5}: Critic Review of Veera by Times of India". The Times of India.
- ^ "Review: Veera is a tedious watch - Rediff.com Movies". Rediff.com. 20 May 2011. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
- ^ "Movie Review:Review: Ravi Teja's Veera". Sify. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
