Simha (film)

''Simha'' () is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Boyapati Srinu and produced by Paruchuri Kireeti under the United Movies banner. The film stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in a dual role, along with Nayantara, Sneha Ullal, Namitha as female leads. Music is composed by Chakri, art direction by A. S. Prakash, cinematography by Arthur Wilson and editing by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao.

Released on 30 April 2010, the film was commercially successful and ended up becoming the highest-grossing Telugu film of the year.An Average Fare
Indian Express. Retrieved on 19 November 2011. Balakrishna received his second Nandi Award for Best Actor for this film.

Plot

The film begins with Srimanarayana a university professor in Hyderabad a scared and esteemed personality. He is unable to tolerate any sort of injustice and smacks the lawbreakers. Besides, a malice faction leader Veerakesavudu lying under coma for the past 28 years. Since his condition is worst doctors shift him to the govt hospital. On the way, Srimanarayana rescues a student from acid attack. Whereat, he unintentionally punches Veerakesavudu, who wakes up. Srimanarayana resides with her grandmother who is perturbed by many breakups of his matrimony for the emotional nature. Mahima a female lecturer in the college entices him, though he doesn't reciprocate. In the interim, Janaki a fresher whose acquaintance with Srimanarayana initiates a squabble. However, it turns into a crush learning his real identity.

Once, Srimanarayana shields her from a group of goons when she divulges her past. Janaki is the daughter of a business tycoon Jagadish Prasad, who holds a rivalry with Gopi a gangster, Veerakesavudu's son. After recouping Veerakesavudu compiled Jagadish Prasad to knit Janaki with Gopi and he forcibly accepts out of threat. At the time of the wedding, chaos erupts and Gopi kills Janaki’s brother Anand when Jagadish Prasad secretly sent her down to continue her studies. Listening to it, Srimanarayana vows to protect her and accommodates her at his next door. Plus, he welcomes her proposal which makes Mahima to backup. Meanwhile, Gopi finds the whereabouts of Janaki and abducts her by backstabbing Srimanarayana. Anyhow, he retrieves and safeguards her. After reaching home, they are reattacked. Simultaneously, Jagadish Prasad arrives and attacks Srimanarayana out of distortion when he, unfortunately, knifes his grandmother. Then, enraged Srimanarayana flares up on him and his grandmother impedes him. Later, Srimanarayana seeks reality when she spins back.

Now the tale shifts to 30 years ago at Bobbili where Veerakesavudu and his family ruthlessly upholds dictatorship, and suppress townsfolk under his toe with aid of law & order. During that cataclysm, Dr. Narasimha belongs to the royal dynasty, father of Srimanarayana, returns from abroad and establishes a hospital, and serves the 24x7 free of cost. Moreover, he is mettlesome and defies the enormity of these brutal. In that process, he eliminates lots of Veerakesavudu’s men including his brothers too. Narasimha leads delightful life with his ideal wife Gayatri who is always affectionate and supports his piousness. Jagadish Prasad is her brother who mingled with Veerakesavudu in business and is warned by Narasimha to stay away from them otherwise he will face the upshot.

On the eve of a festival, the knaves’ ploy to slay him when Jagadish Prasad remains silent. At that point, Narasimha onslaughts when he treacherously runs through showing endanger to Gayatri. Nevertheless, he slaughters everyone when hits Veerakesavudu on the head, and he goes into a coma. Henceforth, Narasimha & Gayatri leaves their breath together. Being cognizant of it, Srimanarayana proceeds to Bobbili to accomplish his father’s aim. Despite the grandmother's hindrance to being out of violence. All the while, Janaki moves with Jagadish Prasad who is regretful and feels atonement to fix his daughter’s match in Narasimha’s family. As well as, he sends her with Gopi right away. By the time, he lands Srimanarayana seizes Veerakesavudu and takes him to the spot of his parent’s death. At last, he ceases the baddies. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with Srimanarayana continuing his father's legacy.

Cast

* Nandamuri Balakrishna in a dual role as Srimannarayana, a college lecturer and Dr. Narasimha, Srimannarayana's father who single-handedly provided justice to the citizens of Bobbili
* Nayantara as Gayatri, Narasimha's wife and Srimannarayana's mother
* Sneha Ullal as Janaki, a student and Srimannarayana's love interest
* Namitha as Mahima, a colleague of Srimannarayana who is madly in love with him
* Rahman as Jagadish Prasad, a businessman, Gayatri's brother and Janaki's father
* Sai Kumar as Veerakesavudu, a gangster and the antagonist
* K. R. Vijaya as Srimannarayana's grandmother
* Adithya Menon as Gopi, a gangster and Veerakesavudu's son
* Brahmanandam as Narasimha's compounder
* Kota Srinivasa Rao as Veerakesavudu's father
* Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Eedara Bhaskar Rao, college principal
* Chalapathi Rao as Bobbili Superintendent of Police
* Venu Madhav as Venkataratnam, the Sanskrit lecturer who is madly in love with Mahima
* Krishna Bhagavaan as Srimannarayana's servant
* Ravi Prakash as Anand Prasad, Janaki's brother
* Sravan as Veerakesavudu's brother
* Hemant Birje as Veerakesavudu's brother
* G.V. Sudhakar Naidu as Veerakesavudu's henchman
* L. B. Sriram
* Jhansi
* Madhusudhan Rao as Politician
* Fish Venkat as Politician's henchman
* Anand Ramaraju as Vicky, Politician's son
* Dhamu Dare as Software engineer

Production

Along with Boyapati, writer Koratala Siva worked on the film. In 2016, Koratala said that he asked for story and dialogue credit but Boyapati responded that he would have to choose only one of them. An angry Koratala walked away and he was credited for neither. Boyapati responded that Koratala should not have raised the issue which happened years ago.

Soundtrack

While S. Chinna composed the film score, all the songs featured in the film were composed by Chakri. Music released on ADITYA Music Company. The music was released on 31 March 2010 directly into market. The audio function of the movie was called off as Nandamuri Balakrishna met with an accident.

Reception

Upon release, the film opened to mostly positive reviews from audience as well as critics. Sify noted "Simha is out and out a formulaic movie. The urge of director Boyapati Srinu can be clearly felt in the theatre when he showed Balakrishna in an extraordinary manner." Rediff gave a two star rating saying "One knows what to expect from a Balakrishna film and Simha is a perfect example of that: a true mainstream entertainer catering to the masses with high-voltage action, overdose of violence and the mandatory songs. Balakrishna has put in a restrained performance." The Times of India stated "Balakrishna is back in his element as a fiery doctor and does a good job. Nayantara delivers a knock-out performance. While Sneha has no role to play, Namitha exudes enough oomph. Even baddies like Sai kumar, Aditya Menon and Kota Srinivas Rao put in a decent performance".

Box office

''Simha'' collected more than distributor share and became highest grossing Telugu film of the year. The film ran for 50 days in 338 centers and 100 days in 92 centres.Simha Record 50 days, 338 centres, Rs.62 Crores
(23 June 2010). Retrieved on 19 November 2011. The film's satellite rights were sold off at 5 crore.

Awards

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2010 films
2010s Telugu-language films
Films scored by Chakri
2010 masala films
Indian action drama films
Films directed by Boyapati Srinu
2010 action drama films