Style (2006 film)

Style
Directed by	Raghava Lawrence
Produced by	Lagadapati Sirisha Sridhar
Written by	Kulashekar (Telugu dialogues) V. Prabhakar (Tamil dialogues)
Screenplay by	Raghava Lawrence
Story by	Raghava Lawrence
Starring	Prabhu Deva Raghava Lawrence Charmme Kaur Raja Kamalinee Mukherjee
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Kabir Lal
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Production company	Larsco Entertainments
Release date	12 January 2006 (2006-01-12)
Running time	2:39:06
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Style is a 2006 Telugu musical dance film written, and directed by Raghava Lawrence.^[1][2] Produced by Larsco entertainments, the film starred Prabhu Deva, Raghava Lawrence, Raja, Kamalinee Mukherjee, and Charmme Kaur in important roles, whilst Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna in cameo appearance, the film's soundtrack is composed by Mani Sharma, and as Lawrence's second directorial venture after the blockbuster Mass. The film was a box-office hit and has garnered the Filmfare Award for Best Choreography. The film was subsequently dubbed into Tamil as Lakshyam.^[3][4]

Plot

Ganesh (Prabhu Deva) is a famous dancer and beats Anthony in a dance competition to head into the international arena. Infuriated, Anthony arranges an accident for Ganesh in which Ganesh loses his legs and can't dance anymore. He becomes depressed and wants to die, but his sister Priya (Kamalinee Mukherjee) consoles him and tells him to teach someone who could get benefited.

Ganesh aims to set up a dance school and starts his search for a competent dancer and finds about Raghava (Raghava Lawrence), who also works as a cleaning boy at a dance school in Visakhapatnam. Ganesh comes to know about him and his 4 friends and makes them his students. The rest of the movie revolves around their training and budding love between Priya and Raghava. Finally, Raghava and his batch defeat Anthony's batch on the dance floor. The movie ends with a film offer to Raghava, given by actor Chiranjeevi (Chiranjeevi).

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Mani Sharma. All songs are hit tracks. Music released on MADHURA Entertainment Music Company.

Telugu version

Tamil version^[5]

• Neruppai — Karthik
• Style Style — Jaigeetha, Ravivarma
• Superstar — Karthik
• Unnil Ulladhu — Karthik
• Vaada Vaada — Tippu
• Yaarumillai — Karthik

Crew

• Director: Raghava Lawrence
• Screenplay: Raghava Lawrence
• Story: Raghava Lawrence
• Dialogue: Kulasekhar
• Producer: Mani Kanta Y
• Music: Mani Sharma
• Cinematography: Kabir Lal
• Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
• Art director: Ashok
• Choreography: Raghava Lawrence
• Hip-hop dancer: Shashikanth

Production and release

• Style was the highest budgeted dance-musical in India at the time of its release.^[1][2]
• It was the first south Indian film to be shot with Super 35 camera.
• Style was the first south Indian film to be color corrected.^[1][2]
• The producers, Sirisha and Sridhar Lagadapati, were approached by a distributor from a territory for Style. Since they were not eager to do business with him, it is said that they tried to dissuade him by quoting a then-exorbitant price for the movie. To their surprise, he immediately agreed and bought Style for his territory. The distributor thanks them even today since it was the only movie in a long time that had brought him profits.
• This film was dubbed in Tamil with the title Lakshyam.^[1][2]

Box office performance

The film had a 100-day run in 30 centres.

Awards

• Filmfare Award for Best Dance Choreographer - South - Lawrence Raghavendra (2006)

References

External links

Style on IMDb