King (2008 film)

King
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Directed by	Sreenu Vaitla
Produced by	Shiva Prasad Reddy
Written by	Kona Venkat Gopimohan BVS Ravi
Starring	Nagarjuna Trisha Krishnan Srihari Arjan Bajwa Mamta Mohandas
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Prasad Murella
Editing by	M. R. Varma
Release dates	December 25, 2008 (2008-12-25)
Running time	171 mins
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	17 crore (US$2.7 million).
Box office	28 crore (US$4.5 million).

King is a 2008 Indian Telugu film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna, Trisha Krishnan, Arjan Bajwa, and Mamta Mohandas. The film was directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by D Sivaprasad Reddy. It was dubbed into Hindi as King No. 1 and into Tamil as Pudhukottai Azhagan.

Plot

Chandra Pratap Varma AKA King (Nagarjuna) hails from a royal family, having taken over the legacy and riches after the death of his father Raja Varma (Sobhan Babu). King has a younger brother Ajay (Deepak), mother (Geetha), maternal uncle ([Dharmavarapu Subramanyam]) and his late father's three sisters, who are married. Their husbands are (C Jayaprakash, Krishna Bhagawan, Sayaji Shinde). The uncles steal money, which's for the workers. They make it look like that the employee Chandu's responsible. King believes and fires Chandu. Suddenly, King knew that the uncles hid the money in their room. He kept quiet because of his aunts, mother, etc. He didn't want to ruin his family's honor. King's uncles are jealous of his power. King's brother gets kidnapped by henchmen of a rival business man named Bhagat. King rescues his younger brother. King's late dad's sisters' husbands plan to kill King indirectly. This planned day arrives and King goes away on a business trip where he meets his bodyguard, Munna and another employee, Swapna (Mamta Mohandas). Before King leaves airport, this mysterious guy's after King. Guy tries to shoot King, but misses. King chases him to graveyard, but doesn't see him. Unfortunately, Swapna was working with mysterious guy all along and Swapna shoots King who's presumed dead. King's bodyguard sees King in cemetery, but doesn't tell police the truth. 2 of the 3 evil uncles say other evil uncle's responsible for making King go missing. 1st evil uncle escapes and it's assumed that he's responsible. Mother believes her son King's safe.

Another story thread is incorporated through the introduction of gangster Bottu Seenu (again played by Nagarjuna), who falls in love with a singer Shravani (Trisha). Shravani does not care for a wastrel like Bottu Seenu, so Seenu poses as a software engineer named Sarath to impress her. Shravani's elder brother (Srihari) knows B.S. so he would get mad about B.S. loving Shravani. B.S. pretends to be Sarath who wears tie, shirt, and pant, Srihari gets fooled too. Real sarath (Sunil) imposes Raghu rokda in front of a cop by mistake. Cop mistakes Sarath as B.S. and beats him up really bad in hilarious way. Meanwhile, the villainous uncles send goons to look for King, thinking he's still alive. They run into Seenu and he thrashes them. Same 1st evil uncle proposes a deal to Seenu, and asks him to pose as King and return to the palace. Shravani and Srihari mistaken him as Sharath again. They accompany him to palace. Another twist's that Munna's evil too. He has picture of King's dead body, time, and day. Swapna's none other than Chandu's daughter, but he committed suicide cuz nobody believed him. She and mysterious shooter were hired by Bhagath and mysterious shooter's Baba. Now's she's hired to kill King's bro. King's brother brings home his fiancee Pooja/Swapna. Suddenly, B.S. attacks Pooja, but few seconds later, he has no idea what happened. Srihari believe King's spirit came to get revenge and controlled Sharath. Sharath/B.S. gets engaged to Shravani. Swapna knows that it's not King who's living in the palace right now. Bhagath hires bunch of guys including Baba to dress up in black and kill King's imposter and brother in palace during night. Bhagath doesn't trust girls so tells baba to kill Swapna. Sarath/BS's controlled by King's spirit and saves Deepak from Swapna. Another twist: King's bro met Swapna rt before she killed King. She feels that Deepak depends on his brother too much so he told her to kill King. 3rd twist: BS/Sharath is revealed as King. He calms his bro down. Munna's revealed as a good guy, but captures Baba. Baba reveals his motive for killing Deepak, Swapna, and Swapna is Chandu's daughter. Swapna's told what really happened that day, but doesn't kill Varma. The father and friends who took care of BS were Munna's people. Munna's real name's probably Raghu rokda. Varma says that Deepak's mistake's unforgivable. Varma's family members r feeling sad, so he decides to leave. He dies in an explosion which takes place in his car. Varma's mother leaves and doesn't want anyone to look for her. Everyone else's probably still mad at Deepak. 4th Twist's dat King's still alive. He reveals his plan to Shravani only. Same Bhagath's henchman who kidnapped Deepak at beginning of movie, King told him: "I want u to tell me Bhagath's evil plans." After King got shot, Munna took him to hospital. Swapna's details were fake, so they couldn't find her. He decided to play this double role drama. Bhagath's henchman/King's informer reveals the shooter's working for Bhagath too but didn't find details about Swapna. When King met his evil uncles again, none of them had nothing to do with it. King's informer blew up Varma's car after Varma escaped. This was Varma's plan too. Informer put a bomb inside Bhagath's car too, so King talks to Bhagath on phone before Bhagath dies. King pretends to be Sarath in front of everyone else.

Final Twist: BS/Munna's father and friends were responsible for messing up lights and pulling table with rope in King's palace. They did it to make it look like King's spirit came for revenge.

Cast

• Nagarjuna as Bottu Seenu/ "King" Chandra Pratap Varma/ Sarath
• Srihari as Gnaneswar
• Trisha Krishnan as Sharvani
• Mamta Mohandas as Swapna/Pooja
• Arjan Bajwa as Ajay
• Madhu Shalini
• Brahmanandam as Jayasurya
• Sayaji Shinde as Gopi Mohan
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Appaji
• Sunil as Sarath
• Bharath Dhabolkar as Bhagath Seth
• Geetha as King's mother
• Sudha
• M. S. Narayana as Chorus Narayana
• Venu Madhav
• Krishna Bhagavaan as Kona venkat
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
• Ajay
• Srinivasa Reddy as Jayasurya's PA

Special appearances during the song "Nuvvu Ready Nenu Ready" (similar in concept to "Deewangi Deewangi" from the Shah Rukh Khan starrer Om Shanti Om) in alphabetical order:

• Anushka Shetty
• Charmy Kaur
• Genelia D'Souza. Ironically earlier in the film, the characters played by Akkineni Nagarjuna and Trisha Krishnan watch Genelia D'Souza's Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na and Nagarjuna asks Krishnan whether Genelia is a Telugu actress.
• Kamna Jethmalani
• Priyamani
• Sneha Ullal

Crew

• Director:Sreenu Vaitla
• Story:Kona Venkat, Gopimohan
• Screenplay:Sreenu Vaitla
• Dialogues:B.V.S.Ravi
• Cinematography:Prasad Murella
• Music Director:Devi Sri Prasad
• Action: Ram Laxman

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for this film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The lyrics for the songs were written by Ramajogaiah Sastry, except for "Yenthapani Chestiviro," for which the lyrics were written by Sahiti.

External links

• King at the Internet Movie Database