''Raju Gari Gadhi'' () or also known as ''RGG,'' is a series of Indian Telugu-language comedy horror films created and directed by

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. Except the first film '' Raju Gari Gadhi'' (2015), the other two films '' Raju Gari Gadhi 2'' (2017) and '' Raju Gari Gadhi 3'' (2019) are remakes of ''

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'' (2016) and '' Dhilluku Dhuddu 2'' (2019). Ashwin Babu played the character "Ashwin" in all the films, is the only common actor to appear in every film of the series. Upon the release of '' Raju Gari Gadhi'' (2015), the film received mixed reviews but it was commercially successful. This made director Ohmkar to continue the film series.

Films

''Raju Gari Gadhi/RGG 1''

The film is jointly produced by

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, AK Entertainments Pvt. Ltd and OAK Entertainments Pvt. Ltd. The film received mixed reviews but it was commercially successful. The film revolves around TV channel plan to host a reality show in a haunted house near

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. Dead bodies of 34 people have resurfaced there for over a period of time. Seven individuals namely, Ashwin (Ashwin Babu), Nandu (Chethan Cheenu), Barbie (Eshanya), Bala Tripura Sundari (

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), Shivudu (

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), M Y Danam (Shankar) and Bujjimma (

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) are selected for the show. Program head Pakoddi (Prabhas Sreenu) and Chekodi (

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) have arranged all kinds of scares for the contestants. The rest of the story revolves about what incidents, the individuals face as the show progress and find the truth of that hanuted house.

''Raju Gari Gadhi 2/RGG 2''

It is the remake of the 2016

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film ''

''. Although the film received negative reviews, it is commercially successful. The film features three friends – Ashwin (Ashwin Babu), Kishore (

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), and Praveen ( Praveen), who are friends from college days, deciding to lead a life by investing in a resort business. As they start the business, everything goes smoothly until they begin to witness

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activities in the resort, making their lives tougher. Immediately, they contact a nearby

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( Naresh), but it fails miserably, and their fear of that ghost increases. The Father suggests them to approach a world-renowned mentalist named Rudra ( Nagarjuna Akkineni) who has parlor tricks and more. Rudra decides to solve out the mystery in the resort. Beyond a shadow of the doubt, he finds out that it is a soul of a girl Amrutha ( Samantha Akkineni), who is seeking answers for her death. Rudra ensures Amrutha that he will definitely help her. So, she starts revealing her past.

''Raju Gari Gadhi 3/ RGG3''

It is the remake of 2019 Tamil film '' Dhilluku Dhuddu 2''. This film too received mixed reviews. Ashwin (Ashwin Babu) and his maternal uncle (

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) are happy-go-lucky guys who create a nuisance for their neighbours due to their drunken antics. The neighbours try out different methods to escape their antics, but in vain. One of the neighbours, who is a doctor by profession, comes across Maya (

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), whom he is in love with. However, when he tries to express his love, he is beaten black and blue by a mysterious ghost. After finding out details about Maya and the ghost, the doctor and other neighbours plot against Ashwin to make him fall in love with Maya and let the ghost take care of him. Injured in a fight, Ashwin, seeking a physiotherapist's help, and him falling in love with Maya was engineered by his neighbours. Things take a twist, and Ashwin is thrashed by the ghost. He finds out that Maya's father Garudaraja Bhattadhri is a powerful magician in Kerala and that he had set the ghost to protect Maya. He sets out to Kerala to convince Maya's father, along with his uncle. They insult Bhattadhri, and he sets out to do a pooja to harm them. To escape that, they ask for Chakra Mahadevi's help. It turns out that both Bhattadhri and Mahadevi are fake and that there is a real ghost protecting Maya. They go to a black magician, where he reveals the flashback about the ghost. The rest of the story revolves around how they solve the problem.

Cast

''Raju Gari Gadhi''

* Ashwin Babu as Ashwin * Chethan Cheenu as Dr. Nandan / Nandu *

as Bala Tripura Sundari / Bala *

as Shivudu *

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as Dr. Karthik *

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as Bommali Raja * Saptagiri as "Race Gurram" Babji *

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as M Y Danam * Poorna as Bommali *

as Bujjimma * Eshanya Maheshwari as Barbie *

as Chekodi *

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as Pakoddi * Jeeva

''Raju Gari Gadhi 2''

* Ashwin Babu as Ashwin * Nagarjuna Akkineni as Rudra * Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Amrutha *

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as Suhanisa * Abhinaya as Kiran *

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as Parandhamaiah *

as Kishore * Praveen as Praveen *

as Bellam Sridevi * Naresh as Father * Avinash as Priest * Devan as

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Chandra Shekar * Nandu as Nandu * Tejaswi Madivada as Bala * Narayana Rao as Master *

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as Varalakshmi *

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as Lecturer * Mukhtar Khan as Commissioner Sarathchandra * Ravi Varma as Satti *

as Bala Yesu * Geetha Singh as Nimmy * Baby Lasya as Amrutha (child) * Shatru as a goon

''Raju Gari Gadhi 3''

* Ashwin Babu as Ashwin *

as Maya *

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as Rajamatha *

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* Ajay Ghosh as Garudaraja Bhattadhri *

* Hari Teja * K. Sivasankar *

* Getup Srinu * Sneha Gupta - Item Girl 1 (" Naa Gadhiloki Ra ") * Radhika S Mayadev - Item Girl 2 ( " Naa Gadhiloki Ra")

Crew

Release and revenue

References

Indian film series Horror film series Indian comedy horror films Indian horror films {{Films directed by Ohmkar