Adhurs

Adhurs
Directed by	V.V. Vinayak
Produced by	Vallabhaneni Vamshi Mohan
Written by	Kona Venkat
Starring	NTR Jr. Nayantara Sheela Mahesh Manjrekar
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Edited by	Gowtham Raju
Production company	Annapurna Studios
Distributed by	Reliance Big Entertainment
Release date	13 January 2010 (2010-01-13)
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Adhurs (English : Marvelous) is a 2010 Telugu action drama film directed by V.V. Vinayak. The film stars NTR Jr. in a dual-role, and Nayantara and Sheela as female leads. Music is scored by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was a "Hit" at the box-office and was the third successful hit with V. V. Vinayak and Jr. NTR combo. This is NTR's second double acting. The film was later dubbed into Hindi as Judwaa No. 1 by Aditya Music India Pvt Ltd in the same year.^[1] Adhurs was released in 1300 screens all over the world, it ran for 50 days in 155 centers.

Plot

The story is about two twin brothers who get separated at birth. They were separated by an old woman whose daughter-in-law gave birth to a dead child for the third time. Narasimha (NTR Jr.) gets raised by a single mother (Vinaya Prasad), and he becomes an undercover agent to a top cop Naik (Sayaji Shinde) in order to be a cop himself. Chari (NTR Jr.) is brought up by a family of traditional Brahmin priests. He has a priest guru Bhattacharya aka Bhattu (Bramhanandam) who is in love with Chandrakala aka Chandu (Nayanthara), one of his common customers, but she falls for Chari after he saves her from eve-teasers (the one who saved her was actually Narasimha). Narasimha also has a girlfriend Nandhu (Sheela), Naik's daughter. Dhanraj (Ashish Vidyarthi) and Baba (Mahesh Manjrekar) are in search of the family of a top army scientist (Nassar) who is Narasimha's father, and as they find him, they force him to invent a target-killing device by kidnapping Narasimha, who is cheated by Naik for loving his daughter. Narasimha's father escapes from there, because of which two men go to Chari's house on his engagement day and make a deal that if Chari acts as Narasimha, they would give him 17 lakhs. What happens next forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Reception

Rediff gave a four stars said "Brahmanandam is hilarious. Performance-wise, NTR Jr takes the cake. He is simply marvellous as Chari, the Brahmin spouting loud dialogues while his Narasimha is tough yet more sober. NTR presents the contrasts well. All in all, Adhurs is NTR's show all the way!"^[2] Sify gave a verdict as "Mass entertainer" noted "NTR brings total justice to his dual role as Chari and Narasimha. His characterisation as a Brahmin youth is simply superb and hilarious, but at the same time raking up a controversy with a group of the Brahmins community approaching the State governor Mr Narasimhan to ban the film. On the other hand, NTR’s role as Narasimha as rugged guy would work well with the mass audience. Nayanthara and Sheela provide the glam quotient while Brahmanandam is hilarious as Bhattu, receiving a big footage which runs into nearly 40 minutes in the film."^[3] The Hindu gave a mixed review stated "NTR in two roles is pretty easy with the diction. His dances are amazing and accord the 'mass kick' in the title song that comes before the climax. The humour component is adequately handled by Brahmanandam who hogs the limelight as a Hindu priest."^[4]

Music

Adhurs
Soundtrack album by Devi Sri Prasad
Released	5 December 2009 (2009-12-05)
Genre	Film soundtrack
Length	30:36
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Arya 2 (2009) Adhurs (2009) Namo Venkatesa (2010)

The audio released on 3 December 2009. Adhurs soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad whilst lyrics were penned by Chandrabose & Ramajogayya Sastry. The Soundtrack has Chartbusters like: "Shambho Shiva Shambho", "Pilla Naa Valla Kaadu", "Assalaam Valekhum" and "Chandrakala".

References

External links

• Adhurs on IMDb