Jalsa

Jalsa
Pawan Kalyan and Ileana
Directed by	Trivikram Srinivas
Produced by	Allu Aravind
Written by	Trivikram Srinivas
Narrated by	Mahesh Babu
Starring	Pawan Kalyan Sivaji Ileana D'Cruz Kamalinee Mukherjee Parvati Melton Makarand Deshpande
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	K.V. Guhan Rasool Ellore
Editing by	Sreekar Prasad
Distributed by	Geetha Arts
Release dates	2 April 2008 (2008-04-02)
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	26 crore (US$4.2 million)
Box office	42 crore (US$6.7 million)(Share)[1]

Jalsa (English translation: Fun) is a 2008 Telugu film directed by Trivikram Srinivas, who returns after directing a Blockbuster Athadu, and produced by Allu Aravind, under the Geetha Arts banner. The film stars Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz and Parvati Melton in pivotal roles. The soundtrack of the film, composed by Devi Sri Prasad, was launched on 29 February 2008. The film was originally scheduled to be released on 27 March 2008, but because of delays in the digital intermediate (DI) process, the film was released on 2 April 2008 and became successful at the box Tollywood Box office. This movie dubbed in Hindi as Yeh Hai Jalsa.

Plot

Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) is a post-graduate from Osmania University and is working as a gym instructor. He is in love with Indu (Kamalini Mukherjee) who wishes to marry him. So she makes him meet her father (Prakash Raj), who is a police officer and also happens to be his old acquaintance. Her father declines to approve their love and she is forced to marry according to her father's choice. Meanwhile, Bhagmathi a.k.a Bhagi (Ileana D'Cruz) and her friend Jyothsna a.k.a Jo (Parvathi Melton) are chased by hoodlums before being rescued by Sanjay. He accidentally kills one of them. Meanwhile, Jo and Bhagi are ragged in the college before being again rescued by Sanjay. Both begin to like Sanjay and even decide, to propose their love to him without the knowledge of the other. However, it is Jo who proposes first to Sanjay, who rejects her. Careful after seeing her friend's love rejected, Bhagi, with the help of Sreenu (Sunil), begins wooing Sanjay.

Meanwhile, Damodar Reddy (Mukesh Rishi), a powerful land-grabber who takes care of all the settlements while still in jail, is out on parole. He is in search of Sanjay for spoiling his land deals in the past and thrashing his son, who was one of the goons who chased Bhagi. He makes an attempt on life of Sanjay, but in vain. But, his friend Abhi (Ali) is taken as a hostage during the attack. Sanjay rescues Abhi, but is enraged when his friends stop him from assaulting the kidnapper by questioning his authority to take law into his hands. Sanjay then reveals his flashback, in which he hailed from a poor rural family. His brother dies of heart disease as a child. His father commits suicide as crops fail and his mother too passes away. While going to burial ground, he repeatedly slips and swoons at a stone pillar. He plucks it out, which enrages the henchmen of Damodar Reddy . When they attack him, Sahu beats them up, and disappears into a forest and joins the naxalites. During a combing operation, he joins hands with the father of Indu and Bhagi - a police officer - and his team to eliminate the team in an encounter. Sanjay is then rehabilitated as a college student in Hyderabad.

Bhagi confesses to her father about her intention to marry Sanjay, but her father rejects it by revealing to her about Sanjay being an ex-lover of her sister Indu, and an ex-naxal. Shocked, Bhagi agrees to get married as per her father's choice. Her father arranges engagement of Bhagi with Raghu Ram (Sivaji). Sanjay is disgusted that Bhagi has given her assent to the engagement and decides to break it. Meanwhile, Sanjay comes to know about the man who attempted on his life is none other than Damodar Reddy and Ragghu Ram is the elder son of Damodar Reddy. So Sanjay confronts him in jail and challenges him. Damodar Reddy gets out of jail, and forcibly arranges the marriage of Raghuram with Bhagi. Sanjay, meanwhile kidnaps the younger son of Damodar Reddy, and takes him head-on, defeats him and the film ends with Bhagi getting married to Sanjay.

Cast

• Pawan Kalyan as Sanjay Sahu
• Ileana D'Cruz as Bhagyamathi
• Ali as Abhi
• Prakash Raj as Indu's and Bhagyamati's father
• Brahmanandam as Head Constable Pranav
• Tanikella Bharani
• Sunil as Seenu
• Kamalinee Mukerji as Indu
• Parvati Melton as Jyothsana, a.k.a. Jo
• Mahesh Babu as Background Narrator or Sutradar
• Mukesh Rishi as Damodar Reddy^[2]
• Sivaji as Damodar Reddy's Elder Son
• Aditya Redij as Damodar Reddy's Younger Son

Reception

• The movie largely opened to positive response from both critics and audience. The film was released with 320 prints in 1000 theatres and the film proved to be a biggest grosser of the year.^[3] THe film grossed 9.6 crore in Nizam territory. It was dubbed in Hindi as Yeh Hai Jalsa.It ran for 50 days in over 258 centers and 100 days in over 25 centers.^[4]

Awards

The film nominated in 6 categories at 2008 filmfare awards including Best movie, actor, actress, supporting actress, music director and lyricist for Sirivennela ("Chalere Chal).

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of the film was launched on 29 February 2008. The audio rights were sold to Aditya Music for 9 million,^[5][6] the highest for a Telugu film of its released month.^[7] The music got very good reviews from websites^[8][9][10] and an excellent response from the public itself.^[11] The music has been topping the charts since its release.^[12][13] Devi Sri Prasad received the 2008 Santosham Best Music Director Award for his work on the film's music.

Jalsa
Soundtrack album by Devi Sri Prasad
Released	2 April 2008 (2008-04-02)
Genre	Film soundtrack
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Allu Aravind

References

http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/filmfareawards2008.html

External links

• Jalsa
• Jalsa at the Internet Movie Database
• Jalsa Details including Reviews