Maska (film)

Maska
Directed by B. Gopal
Produced by M.S.Raju
Story by Krishna
Starring Ram
Hansika Motwani
Sheela Kaur
Music by Chakri
Cinematography Sekhar V Joseph
Edited by Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao
Production
company
Release date
  • 14 January 2009 (2009-01-14)
Country India
Language Telugu
Budget ₹12 crore (equivalent to ₹24 crore or US$3.3 million in 2017)
Box office ₹28 crore (equivalent to ₹56 crore or US$7.7 million in 2017)

Maska is a 2009 Telugu romantic action drama film. It was directed by B. Gopal and starred Ram, Hansika Motwani and Sheela. It was released on 14 January 2009 with 300 prints in 550 theaters. The film was dubbed into Hindi as Phool Aur Kante - In Maska. It was remade into Bengali (Bangladesh) as Onnorokom Bhalobasha in 2012 for Valentine's Day. It was also remade into Bengali (India-Bangladesh joint venture) as Hero 420 in 2016 for Valentine's Day.

Plot

Krish (Ram) is a happy-go-lucky guy who lives with his brother and sister-in-law. He was in love with a girl named Manju (Sheela). Manju happens to be the daughter of Simhachalam (Mukesh Rishi). Krish's only intention is to become rich by marrying her and doesn't have any feelings whatsoever towards her.He weaves a love story between him and a girl called Meenakshi aka Meenu (Hansika Motwani)to make Manju fall for him. He also meets Meenu and he starts to like her for real and falls in love with her.

Meanwhile, Simhachalam and Shinde (Pradeep Rawat) run against each other in a presidential election in Delhi. Shinde is a man of misdeeds. Shinde tries to find faults in Simhachalam's personal life so that he can expose him in front of the high command of the party, so that his route will be clear to get the party ticket. Shinde comes to learn that Simhachalam has another wife (Sita) and a daughter who live in Hyderabad. He sends his men to find them.

Unfortunately, Simhachalam fixes Manju and Krish's marriage. But Krish loves Meenu. Manju discovers it and points gun on Meenu. But she leaves Krish to her and reveals that Meenu is the unofficial daughter of Simhachalam and sister of Manju . Simhachalam, Krish and Shinde arrive. Meenu and Manju emotionally ask their father to forget everything and live happily.He gives up election to Shinde. Krish then marries Meenu and leaves happily.

Cast

Soundtrack

Maska
Soundtrack album to Maska by Chakri (music director)
Released 25 December 2008
Recorded 2008
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer Chakri (music director)
Chakri (music director) chronology
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(2008)		 Raju Maharaju
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The music of Maska was launched at a function organized in song set erected at Rama Naidu studios on the night of 25 December 2008. Dasari launched the audio CD and gave the first unit to D Rama Naidu. D Suresh Babu launched the audiocassette and gave the first unit to the main leads of the film.[1]

Box office

The film collected Rs 2.25 crores on its opening day and Rs.10 crores in its first week in theatres.[2] This film had one of the Biggest openings at that time and the biggest in Ram's career and rocketed him to the big league. As per the sources, it is said that the movie is high grosser at the box office.

References

  1. ↑ "Maska music launch". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 25 December 2008.
  2. ↑ sales@andhravilas.net. "'Maska' - 100 days collections in just one week - Andhravilas.com -Telugu Cinema, Telugu Movies, India News & World News , Bollywood , Songs :". Andhravilas.com. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
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