''Leela Mahal Center'' is a 2004 Indian

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-language

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directed by Devi Prasad and starring

Aryan Rajesh Edara Aryan Rajesh is an Indian actor & film producer who appears in Telugu films. He is the son of Telugu veteran director and producer E. V. V. Satyanarayana. He has played the lead role in 14 Telugu films, and now takes up a variety of role ...

and Sadaf. The film is a remake of the 1999 Tamil film ''

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''.

Plot

Prabhu has a troubled childhood with divorced parents. His mother marries another man. Upset that he has to call his stepfather as his own father, he leaves his house at a young age. He grows up to be a thug who works at Leela Mahal Center, a cinema theatre. GK, a former Mumbai-based don, who was sent to jail by his own friend, Sudheer. GK tells Prabhu to kidnap Anjali, a violinist. She is initially disturbed by Prabhu and starts to fall in love with him after Singhamalai tells Anjali about Prabhu's past life. A terrorist gang comes to kidnap Anjali as a bargain for their fellow friends in jail. How Prabhu fights the gang and saves Anjali form the rest of the story. It is revealed that Anjali is none other than GK’s daughter. GK & Sudheer become friends again.

Cast

as Prabhu * Sadaf as Anjali *

Atul Kulkarni Atul Kulkarni (born 10 September 1965) is an Indian actor, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, English, Odia and Telugu language films. Kulkarni won the National Award for the Best Supporting Actor ...

as GK * Suman as Sudheer *

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as Singhamalai, Prabhu's right hand man *

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as Leela Mahal Center's manager *

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as Bujji *

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* Sheeba *

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as Sudheer's wife *Surekha Vani as Prabhu's mother *

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as Prabhu's father *

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as Manga *

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as Terrorist * Hema as GK's wife

Production

The film is directed by Devi Prasad, who previously directed ''Aaduthu Paaduthu''. The film got stuck in production before ultimately releasing in 2004.

, who plays the lead in the film was yet to reach the limelight prior to the film's release due to the box office failures of his previous films. In 2004 prior to the release of ''

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'',

Sadha Sadaf Mohammed Sayed, also known by her stage name Sadha, is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada films. She was introduced to the Telugu film industry by the director Teja along with Nithiin in the film '' Jayam ...

, who starred in '' Jayam'', was yet to bag stardom in the Telugu film industry.

Soundtrack

The songs are composed by

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. The songs "Babuji Zara Dheere Chalo" from '' Dum'' and "Mabbe Masakesindile" from ''

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'' were combined for a song in the film. The lyrics were written by Suddala Ashokteja, Sai Sriharsha, and I.S. Murthy. The song "Thummeda Rekkalanadugu" rendered by

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is based on the Telugu poem of the same name. In a review of the film's soundtrack, a critic from ''The Hindu'' stated that "A well-crafted (combined) effort by the composers and the lyricists ... gives music-loving Telugus some good compositions."

Release

Unlike Rajesh's previous films, this film was a success at the box office. ''The Hindu'' wrote that "Aryan Rajesh performs the role with ease and Sada looks beautiful. Atul Kulkarni fares well". ''Idlebrain'' gave the film a rating of three out of five and wrote that " Devi Prasad should be appreciated for making a decent film in spite of undue delays and obstacles that dogged the progress of this film". ''Indiaglitz'' wrote that "Screenplay and Direction by debutant Devi Prasad is mediocre. But Devi Prasad shows promise in stylized presentation".

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*{{IMDb title, tt1579799 2004 films 2000s romantic action films Films scored by S. A. Rajkumar Telugu remakes of Tamil films 2000s Telugu-language films Indian romantic action films