Naaga
2003 Indian film
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Naaga is a 2003 Indian Telugu-language political action film starring N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Jennifer Kotwal and Sadha. The film is directed by D. K. Suresh, and the film's music was composed by Music Directors, Vidyasagar and Deva. It was released on 10 January 2003 to negative reviews and was declared a flop at the box office. The film's storyline was compared to Mudhalvan (1999).
Sri Surya Movies
Screenplay:
A. M. Rathnam
Dialogues:
Paruchuri Brothers
| Naaga | |
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Theatrical Release Poster | |
| Directed by | D. K. Suresh |
| Written by | Story: Sri Surya Movies Screenplay: A. M. Rathnam Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers |
| Produced by | A. M. Rathnam |
| Starring | N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Jennifer Kotwal Sadha |
| Cinematography | K. Ravindra Babu |
| Edited by | Kola Bhaskar |
| Music by | Deva (4 songs) Vidyasagar (2 songs) |
Production company | Sri Surya Movies |
Release date |
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Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Plot
A man wages a battle against politicians and their dishonourable ways of campaigning when some political goons harm his father and sister due to a trivial issue.
Cast
- N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Suryadevara Nagaraju "Naaga"
- Jennifer Kotwal as Angel
- Sadha as Vijji
- Raghuvaran as Suryadevara Krishnamurthy, Naaga's father
- Nassar as CM
- Rajan P. Dev as Home Minister
- Sudeepa Pinky as Naaga's sister
- Shakeela as Mandaram
- Paruchuri Gopala Krishna as Potti Kasaiah
- Sunil as Ravi
- Tanikella Bharani as Subramaniam "Subbu", Viji's father
- Varsha
- Sudha
- Easwari Rao as Vijji's sister
- Srinivasa Reddy
- Siva Reddy
- Babloo Prithiveeraj
- Anand
- Rajeev Kanakala
- Venu Madhav
- L.B. Sriram
- P. J. Sarma
- M. S. Narayana
- Narra Venkateswara Rao
- Surya
- Rambha as an item number in the song "Naayudori Pilla"
- Raghava Lawrence in a guest appearance in the song "Naayudori Pilla"
- Shobi in a guest appearance in the song "Oka Konte Pillane"
- Anasuya Bharadwaj in an uncredited role as a law college student
Soundtrack
The music was composed by Deva and Vidyasagar.[1] The audio release function was held on 22 December 2002 at Annapoorna Studios with K Ashok Kumar, KL Narayana, KS Rama Rao, Kodali Nani, M. S. Raju, Naga Lakshmi and Tarun as special guests.[2]
Except for "Naayudori Pilla", all other songs were reused from Tamil films: three songs were reused from Kushi (2000) ("Macarena" as "Macarina Macarina", "Oru Ponnu Onnu" as "Oka Konte Pillane", "Megam Karukuthu" as "Megham Karigenu") and two songs from Dhool (2003) ("Ithanundu Muthathile" as "Entha Chinna Muddu", "Koduva Meesai" as "Anakapalli Centrelo"[2]) both produced by Rathnam with the music of latter film also being composed by Vidyasagar. The soundtrack version of "Oka Konte Pillane" featured vocals of Karthik while the film version utilized vocals provided by Hariharan.
| Naaga | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 22 December 2002 |
| Recorded | 2002 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 32:22 |
| Label | Aditya Music |
| Producer | Deva Vidyasagar |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Entha Chinna Muddu" | A. M. Rathnam | Vidyasagar | Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal | 04:27 |
| 2. | "Macarina Macarina" | A. M. Rathnam | Deva | Devan, Sowmya Raoh | 06:44 |
| 3. | "Naayudori Pilla" | Kulasekhar | Deva | Mano | 04:39 |
| 4. | "Oka Konte Pillane" | A. M. Rathnam | Deva | Karthik, Hariharan, Anuradha Sriram | 05:39 |
| 5. | "Megham Karigenu" | A. M. Rathnam | Deva | Karthik, Chinmayi | 06:07 |
| 6. | "Anakapalli Centrelo" | Chandrabose | Vidyasagar | Karthik, Tippu, Chandran, Vasu, Manikka Vinayagam, Timy | 04:46 |
| Total length: | 32:22 | ||||
Release and reception
Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film two-and-three-quarters out of five and wrote that "The main asset of the film is NTR and one may watch this film once for NTR".[3] A critic from Sify wrote that "The film on the whole is a political ‘kichidi’ to expose the opposition parties and our larger-than-life hero’s prescription for miracle cure for the state!"[4] A critic from Full Hyderabad rated the film six out of ten and wrote that "Naaga is like a lavish yet routine Andhra meal with the right amount of spice, zing, color and flavor. Predictable, yet palatable".[5]
It was dubbed in Hindi as Mera Kanoon.[6]
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