Ready (2008 film)

Ready
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Directed by	Srinu Vaitla
Produced by	Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
Written by	Kona Venkat
Starring	Ram Genelia D'Souza Tanikella Bharani Nassar Sunil Chandra Mohan Brahmanandam
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Prasad Murella
Edited by	M.R. Varma
Production company	Sri Sravanthi Movies
Release date	19 June 2008
Running time	174 min
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Ready is a 2008 Telugu action romantic comedy film directed by Srinu Vytla. It is produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore under the Sri Sravanthi Movies banner. The movie features Ram and Genelia in lead roles while Tanikella Bharani, Nassar, Sunil, Chandra Mohan, Brahmanandam and Jaya Prakash Reddy play other prominent roles. The movie was a run away hit and also was a major grosser in 2008. Navdeep and Tamanna have made guest appearances in the film. The music of the film is composed by Devi Sri Prasad.^[1]

It was remade in Kannada as Raam by Puneeth Rajkumar and was a run away hit.^[2] It was remade in Tamil as Uthama Puthiran with Dhanush & Genelia D'Souza in the lead^[3] and was highly successful at the box office. It was also remade in Hindi under the same name with Salman Khan and Asin in the lead as Ready^[4] and was a high-grossing blockbuster as well.^[5][6]

Plot

The movie begins with Raghupathi (Nassar) being introduced as the eldest of his three brothers - the other two being Raghava (Tanikella Bharani) and Rajaram (Vajja Venkata Giridhar) and sister Swarajyam (Rajitha) and her husband (Chandramohan) with Chandu (Ram) as the only son of Raghava and sole inheritor of the property of 'R S Brothers'. Chandu plans the elopement of his cousin Swapna (Tamannaah) with her boyfriend (Navdeep) due to which he is ousted from the house and is isolated from his family by Raghupathi. However, Chandu tries to re-establish links with his family members, but to no avail. Meanwhile, on the last day of his college, Chandu and his friends meet their friend "Google" Gopi (Ravi Varma) who is depressed because his girlfriend is getting married to someone else. Chandu decides to stop the marriage and marry off her to Gopi. However, they kidnap Pooja (Genelia D'Souza) instead of Gopi's girlfriend due to a mistaken identity. After being chased by some hooligans - who are after Pooja - they escape with the exception of Chandu and Pooja who end up in forest. Chandu falls for Pooja who also reciprocates her feelings.

After learning that her best friend is not in town, Pooja decides to stay in Chandu's home disguising herself as disciple of Raghupathi's spiritual guru. Chandu is also welcomed back in his family. When he was about to propose to Pooja, Chandu gets to know about the true identity of Pooja. She is an NRI who came to visit her warring maternal uncles Peddinaidu (Kota Srinivasa Rao) and Chittinaidu (Jaya Prakash Reddy). Both of them try to force her into marriage with their respective sons to get a hold on her property she inherits. Chandu decides to transform them before marrying Pooja. He joins their auditor "McDowellf" Murthy (Brahmanandam) as his assistant. Murthy introduces Chandu as his nephew to both Peddinaidu and Chittinaidu. When asked about Chandu's experience in auditing, Murthy lies to them that he used to be an auditor in America to imaginary brothers "Chicago" Subba Rao and "Dallas" Nageswara Rao.

Chandu manipulates Murthy's funny idea and makes his uncle Raghupathi and his father pose as Chicago Subba Rao and Dallas Nageswara Rao respectively. Swarajyam's husband and Rajaram pose themselves as the friends of Pooja's parents and make Peddinaidu think twice about his son's marriage with Pooja after they deliberately lie to him that her parents took a loan of 100 crores from World Bank. Chittinaidu also decides to call off his son's marriage with Pooja after Chandu plays a prank on him that Chicago Subba Rao's daughter has more property than Pooja. After some hilarious twists and turns, Chandu and his uncle Raghupathi bring about a positive change in both Chittinaidu and Peddinaidu and Pooja marries Chandu after her uncles give their consent.

Cast

Crew

• Producer: Sravanthi Ravi Kishore
• Director:: Srinu Vytla
• Story: Gopimohan
• Screenplay: Srinu Vytla
• Co-Director:Saikishore Macha
• Dialogues: Kona Venkat
• Cinematography: Prasad Murella
• Stunts: Peter Hein
• Music: Devi Sri Prasad
• Choreography: Suchitra, Sankar, Prem Rakshit
• Editing: M. R. Varma
• Art: A. S. Prakash

Songs

The film has six songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The lyrics were written by Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Ramajogayya Sastry and Benny. The audio was released on May 19, 2008 and the reviews were mostly positive.^[7][8]

Reception

Ready received extremely positive reviews. Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film at 3.25 out of a scale of 5 saying that it is "Stuffed with ample commercial elements, mainly vibrant comedy".^[9] Teluguone.com rated the film at 3.75 out of 5 saying that the film is a "Neat family entertainer with an appreciable dose of clean comedy". It also says that though "The story and treatment has shades of Gudumba Shankar to a large extent, but good-natured comedy makes the movie quite enjoyable for a light viewing".^[10] Ram was fabulous and Brahmanandam was well appreciated for his performance by Sify.com saying that "As 'McDowell' Murthy, Brahmanandam brings the house down".^[11]

Awards

Filmfare Awards South

Nominations

• Best Film - Ravi Kishore
• Best Director - Srinu Vaitla
• Best Actor - Ram
• Best Supporting Actor - Brahmanandam

Nandi Awards

• Best popular feature film providing wholesome entertainment
• Best Male comedian - Bramhanandam
• Best Child Actor - Master Bharath

Remakes

• Kannada: Raam - Director: Madesha
• Tamil: Uthama Puthiran - Director: Mithran Jawahar
• Hindi: Ready - Director: Anees Bazmee

References

External links

• Ready on IMDb