''Golconda High School'' is a 2011 Indian

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-language sports drama film directed by

Mohan Krishna Indraganti Mohana Krishna Indraganti is an Indian director known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. His debut directorial venture ''Grahanam'' (2005) fetched him eleven awards including the National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director ...

under the Artbeat Capital banner. It stars

Sumanth Sumanth Kumar Yarlagadda (born 9 February 1975), known mononymously as Sumanth, is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He is the eldest grandson of Telugu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. He is also a partner in Annapurna Stud ...

and Swati Reddy. The film has cinematography,

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while the music was scored by

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. It is based on the book ''The Men Within'', written by Hari Mohan Paruvu. The film was released on 15 January 2011.

Plot

Golconda High School's Board of Trustees' member Kireet Das comes up with a proposal to convert its cricket playground into an IIT coaching center. Principal Viswanath opposes that proposal vehemently, but he's in the minority. Kireet challenges him to show positive results in at least one sport to justify retaining the playground. They come to an agreement that the ground will remain with the school if its cricket team wins the State level cricket tournament. To coach them, Vishwanath summons Sampath, his former student with a seemingly chequered past. Led by Siddanth, and due to their lack of discipline, the team resists Sampath's training. Siddanth then arrogantly challenges Sampath to a students vs. teachers cricket game, the deal being that if the students win, they won't follow his coaching anymore. Towards the end of the game, the frustrated Siddanth deserts his losing team. Gowtham subsequently takes over captaincy and the students manage to tie the game, only because Sampath purposely gets bowled out in the last over. The students get impressed with Sampath's cricketing prowess and decide to follow him, despite Siddanth's opposition. Later when Sampath helps remove a police case against their team member, Mikey, they realize his compassionate nature and embrace his coaching wholeheartedly. Siddanth too eventually follows suit. The GHS team, after coming to know of the deal between Kireet and Viswanath over the cricket ground, get further motivated and raise their efforts towards winning every match. The team advances to the finals, where they face the strong Everglades team. Just before the finals, the GHS boys come to know that the Everglades coach Sundar and Sampath share some bad blood from the past. When Sampath refuses to reveal his personal history with Sundar, the team starts doubting him and lose focus, letting their opponents amass a big total. During the break, Viswanath, coming to know of the misunderstanding between coach and team, tells the boys exactly what had happened between Sampath and Sundar 15 years ago. He tells them that, Sundar, also an ex GHS student, purposely got Sampath run out during the final championship match, where the latter had played brilliantly. To attain personal glory, Sundar went on to black list Sampath, depriving him of any future in cricket. The team, upon realising the truth, apologise to Sampath for doubting him. Sampath motivates them with a stirring speech subsequently. GHS comes onto field with 10 batsmen as Siddanth suffers an injury during fielding. They virtually chase down the big score and the match is tantalizingly poised in the last over. Siddhanth, to the surprise of everyone, comes back from injury and wins the game for GHS off the last ball. Golconda High School wins the championship for the first time in 15 years, and the cricket ground is saved.

Cast

as Sampath * Swati Reddy as Anjali * Subbaraju as Kiriti Das *

Tanikella Bharani Tanikella Bharani (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright and director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has worked as an actor in more than 750 films, including some in Tamil and Hindi; while he was ...

as Viswanath *

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as Madhu Babu *

Harsha Vardhan Harsha Vardhan is an Indian actor, comedian and screenwriter known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has also worked in a few Tamil and Hindi language films, in addition to television. He is known for his performance in Telugu ...

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* Vidya Sagar Rachakonda as Umpire Cricket team *

Santosh Sobhan Santosh Sobhan (born 12 July 1996) is an Indian actor who works in Telugu films. Son of film director Sobhan, Santosh made his debut in the film '' Golconda High School'' (2011). His successful films include '' Ek Mini Katha'' (2021) and ''Ma ...

as Gowtham * Sreenivasa Sayee as Siddanth * Suraj Gontla as Vikas * Farookh as Michel * Sangeet Sobhan as Varun * Vasudev Sastry as Ramesh * Sai Kiran as Ashish * Sai Pradeep as Shameem * Lalith as Rajeender * Sri Raj as Nissar * Nikhil Saketh as Karthik * Rohith as Noel * Sudhir Kumar as Sanjay * Bharath Raj as Khaleel

Home Media

The film Satellite rights was bagged by

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Soundtrack

has composed the original score and soundtracks for the film.

References

{{Reflist 2011 films 2010s Telugu-language films Indian sports drama films Films about cricket in India Films based on Indian novels 2010s sports drama films Films directed by Mohan Krishna Indraganti 2011 drama films