Yogi (2007 film)

Yogi
Directed by V. V. Vinayak
Produced by P. Ravidranath Reddy
Written by Rajendra Kumar (dialogues)
Story by Prem
Based on Jogi [1]
Starring Prabhas
Nayantara
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Pradeep Rawat
Sharada
Ali
Music by Ramana Gogula
Cinematography Sameer Reddy
Edited by Gowtham Raju
Release date
  • 12 January 2007 (2007-01-12)
Running time
 155 minutes
Country India
Language Telugu

Yogi is a 2007 Telugu action drama film directed by V. V. Vinayak, which has Prabhas and Nayantara paired up for the first time. Ramana Gogula, who composed music for V.V. Vinayak's earlier hit Lakshmi, also composed music for this film. Songs were shot in Canada, Egypt, & Malaysia. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Murattu Thambi and into Malayalam as Yogi and in Hindi as Maa Kasam Badla Lunga by RKD Studios. This film is a remake of the 2005 Kannada film Jogi, which was directed by Prem.

The film released on 12 January 2007 in 225 theatres.[2]

Plot

Eeshwar Chandra Prasad (Prabhas) is the son of Ram Murthy (Chalapathi Rao) and Shantamma (Sharada Urvashi). Ram Murthy wants his son to do some job. However, Shantamma pampers Eeshwar very much, and hence he doesn't want to leave the village. Ram Murthy dies, and in order to fulfil his last wish, Eeshwar goes to the city to earn money on the advice of his friend Basha (Ali), who was a pickpocket is. Eeshwar could not meet Basha.

On the other hand, Kotaiah (Kota Srinivasa Rao) runs big land mafia in Hyderabad city and is a bitter rival of Narsing Pahilwan (Pradeep Rawat). Saidulu (Subbaraju) is Narsing's brother. Once, Saidulu hacks Kotaiah and his assistant, when Eeshwar accidentally saves him. Eeshwar gets a job in a tea stall run by Chandranna (Chandra Mohan). He earns good money and purchases two gold bangles for his mother and plans to leave the city. At this juncture, Narsing humiliates Eeshwar for saving Kotaiah and stamps his mother's gold bangles. Irked over this, Eeshwar kills Narsing in broad daylight. As a result, he turns the biggest goon of the city. Meanwhile, Santamma reaches Hyderabad city to that Yogi killed Narsing. Kotaiah wants Yogi to join him, but to no avail. Chandranna encourages Eeshwar, who turned Yogi, to stay back in the city to save the poor, who gets harassed by the goons. Yogi remains a terror for the goons. So, Kotaiah and Saidulu join hands and hatch a plan to kill Yogi. While trying to carry it out, Yogi kills Saidulu. Nandini (Nayantara) is also after Yogi for an interview to complete her practicals. Somehow, she falls in love with him. Though Yogi and Shantamma live in the same city, they could not meet each other. One day, Yogi meets Basha, who reveals that he saw Shantamma.

Though Basha and Santamma go to the address, they could not find him as Eeshar because he is known as Yogi for the people. Shantamma waits for her son in front of a temple, as Basha tells her that Eeshwar is in the habit of visiting the temple on every Monday. But Eeshwar did not turn up on Monday fearing attack by Saidulu's people. Shantamma dies in front of the temple, and Basha arranges funeral for her. At this time, Yogi comes but fails to have a look at the covered face and helps the orphan body lifters with money for cremation and he even bring flowers and puts them on his mother's body. Yogi is unaware that the body is his mother's until it is moved to fire cabin. Basha finally arrives and explains the trauma, but it is too late. He realizes the truth only after Nandini shows the belongings of his mother, who came to see him. The film ends with this emotional scene.

Cast

Crew

Music

The music of the film was launched on 15 December 2006.[3] The film has six songs composed by Ramana Gogula:

Box office

Despite getting mixed-to-negative reviews,[4][5] Yogi managed to gross ₹13.12 crores in its opening week,[6] giving Prabhas a very big hit. As of March 2007, grossed a total of ₹25 crores and a share of ₹18 crores.[7]

Trivia

  • This is the third film music director Ramana Gogula has not composed background music for. His two earlier films were Lakshmi & Annavaram.
  • Director V. V. Vinayak had local girls as dancers and they are not supposed to expose. So, they wore body hugging slips under their specially designed costume.
  • The film heavily resembles the 2005 film Chhatrapati. However, in Chhatrapati, the protagonist searched for his mother. In this film, the protagonist's mother searched for her son. Incidentally, both films star Prabhas in the lead roles.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.filmibeat.com/kannada/news/2013/kannada-movies-remade-in-other-languages-122546.html/
  2. ↑ "indiaglitz.com". Yogi to hit 225 theatres during release. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
  3. ↑ "idlebrain.com". Audio launch-Yogi. Retrieved 3 January 2007.
  4. ↑ "cinegoer.com". A Feel That Never Even Starts. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
  5. ↑ "filmchamber.com". Movie Review — Yogi. Archived from the original on 12 February 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
  6. ↑ "sify.com". Yogi- A runaway hit!. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
  7. ↑ "indiaglitz.com". Yogi collected Rs 18 crore share. Retrieved 5 March 2007.
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