Varudu

Varudu
Directed by	Gunasekhar
Produced by	DVV Danayya
Written by	Gunasekhar Thota Prasad
Starring	Allu Arjun Arya Bhanu Sri Mehra
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by	Anthony
Release date	31 March 2010 (2010-03-31)
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹ 25 crore
Box office	₹ 28 crore

Varudu (Telugu: వరుడు) is a 2010 Telugu action film directed by Gunasekhar. This film stars Arya,^[1] Allu Arjun, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sayaji Shinde and Brahmanandam.^[2] D.V.V. Danayya is the producer of the film.^[3] The film was dubbed into Malayalam as Varan and later into Hindi as Ek Aur Rakshak by Goldmines Telefilms in 2011.

Plot

Sandeep 'Sandy' (Allu Arjun) is a next-gen youngster who parties hard and has a modern outlook, but his ideas towards marriage are traditional. As he gets a job in USA, his parents (Vasundhara (Suhasini) and Raj Gopal (Ashish Vidyarthi)), who got married against their respective parents' wishes, ask him to get married. He accepts and tells them that he will marry a girl of their choice in a ceremony that lasts 5 days. He also refuses to see his bride until the marriage. Everything is arranged according to his wishes, and his marriage is fixed with Deepthi (Bhanu Sri Mehra). At the ceremony, when Sandy and Deepthi see each other, they fall in love at first sight. But Deepthi is kidnapped by a local goon Diwakar (Arya). Sandy's family tries to convince him for another marriage, but he firmly refuses and tries finding his bride. He gets to know Deepthi's whereabouts through his and police investigation. Diwakar kidnapped Deepthi to take revenge from her as she slapped him for misbehaving with her in public. The police, who go to Diwakar's home to bring back Deepthi, get killed by Diwakar and his men. Seeing this, Sandy takes law into his hands and kidnaps Diwakar's brother and gets his bride. In a scuffle, he challenges the villain for a fight on his marriage day, to which he agrees. Sandy and Deepthi get married successfully this time with all the rituals. When they step out of the mandap, Diwakar attacks the groom and a fight happens in which, at a great difficulty, Sandy overcomes Diwakar and kills him. Sandy and Deepthi then live happily ever after.

Cast

Awards

• 2010 – Nandi Award for Best Special Effects – Sri Alagar Swamy the movie was the utterflop

Reception

Varudu had poor reviews ^[4]

Soundtrack

The audio rendered by Mani Sharma was launched on 7 March 2010 at Ramanaidu Studios in Hyderabad. The audio was released in the market by Aditya Music. The function was held in a wedding atmosphere with the cast and crew dressed in traditional attire. Film personalities like Allu Arjun, Allu Aravind, Gunasekhar, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Mani Sharma, Sirish, D. V. V. Danayya, Dil Raju, Thota Prasad, S. S. Rajamouli, Daggubati Suresh Babu, Shyam Prasad Reddy, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, K. S. Rama Rao, B. Gopal, M. L. Kumar Chowdary, B. V. S. N. Prasad, K. L. Narayana, etc., were present. The audio CDs were released by S. S. Rajamouli and the first copy was received by Allu Aravind. The audio cassettes were released by Shyam Prasad Reddy and he presented the first copy to Daggubati Suresh Babu. The function began with the dance performances for Allu Arjun's earlier film songs.^[5] Veturi was felicitated at the Audio Release function and it turned out to be his penultimate movie before his Death on 22 May 2010.

All music composed by Mani Sharma.

References

External links

• Varudu on IMDb