Tadakha

Tadakha
Movie poster
Directed by	Kishore Kumar Pardasani (Dolly)
Produced by	Bellamkonda Ganesh
Written by	N. Linguswamy
Based on	Vettai by N. Linguswamy
Starring	Naga Chaitanya Sunil Tamannaah Andrea Jeremiah
Music by	S. Thaman
Cinematography	Arthur A. Wilson
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Production company	Sri Sai Ganesh Productions
Release date	10 May 2013 (2013-05-10)
Running time	147 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹150 million (US$2.3 million)
Box office	₹190 million (US$3.0 million)[1](share)

Tadakha (English: Mettle), also spelt as Thadaka is a 2013 Telugu action film^[2][3] directed by Kishore Kumar Pardasani, who directed Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam earlier.^[4][5][6] The film is a remake of the well-received 2012 Tamil film Vettai, written and directed by N. Linguswamy.^[7][8] Initially, Sameera Reddy was approached to reprise her role. She was replaced by Andrea Jeremiah. Tamannaah is seen opposite Naga Chaitanya for the second time after 100% Love.^[9] The film received mixed to positive reviews and was declared a "Super Hit" at the box office^[10] and Sunil won Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor - Telugu for his excellent police officer role.

Plot

Sivarama Krishna (Sunil) and Karthik (Naga Chaitanya) are brothers, who are poles apart. Siva is a timid one while Karthik is a stronger and clever one. Both share a great bonding among themselves and their father (Nagendra Babu), who is a police officer, who later dies of Heart attack. Later on, Siva is forced by Karthik to join the police in the same post held by their deceased father, but in a different area. That place happens to be Vizag and Siva learns about Bagga (Ashutosh Rana) and Kaasi, who are two notorious gangsters ruling the city with an iron fist. However, Siva wins all the cases allotted to him as Karthik used to go for every mission in disguise. Soon, Siva marries Nandu (Andrea Jeremiah) while Karthik falls in Love with Nandu's sister Pallavi (Tamannaah), who accepts his love soon.

As everything goes well, Siva seizes the illegal load of Bagga which is highly precious, with the help of Karthik who bashes Bagga's men. Later on, Bagga comes to know that Karthik was behind the game with Siva as his puppet. Thus, after several attempts to threaten his family, Bagga attacks Siva during transporting his illegal load. Siva is almost beaten to death, only to be rescued by Karthik in time. While Bagga is filled with joy, Karthik motivates Siva to become strong and powerful. Under rigorous training from Karthik, Siva becomes quite strong, both physically and mentally, and starts opposing Bagga with an iron fist. During this time, Siva encounters Kaasi on road, thus infuriating Bagga. Bagga, along with Siva's superior, plans to kill the brothers. As a part of the plan, Siva's superior calls Siva to come to the port to defend Bagga. Karthik, who is being married to Pallavi, makes a call to Siva, only to know that he is with Bagga. Karthik reaches the spot, finds his Brother wounded and starts fighting with Bagga and his men. In no time, Siva regains consciousness and joins Karthik. In the end, Siva kills Bagga and vacates the place along with Karthik.

Cast

• Naga Chaitanya as Karthik
• Sunil as Sivarama Krishna
• Tamannaah as Pallavi
• Andrea Jeremiah as Nandu Sivarama Krishna
• Ashutosh Rana as Bagga
• Nagendra Babu as Siva and Karthik's father
• Brahmanandam as Neighbour of Nandu
• Vennela Kishore as Ganesh
• Raghu Babu as Police Officer Hanumanthu
• Rama Prabha as Nandu and Pallavi's Grand Mother
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Commissioner
• Srinivasa Reddy as Reddy, Karthik's friend

Crew

• Story : N. Linguswamy
• Dialogues : Vema Reddy & Kishore Kumar Pardasani
• Screenplay : Kishore Kumar Pardasani & Deepak Raj
• Music : S. Thaman
• Cinematography : Arthur A. Wilson
• Art : A. S. Prakash
• Editing : Gautham Raju
• Lyrics : Ramajogayya Sastry & Bhaskarabhatla
• Fights : Ram-Lakshman, Kanal Kannan, Ravi Varma
• Dance : Raju Sundaram, Pradeep Anthony, Shobhi
• Co-Director : Poosala Radhakrishna
• Production Controller : Bandi Seshaiah
• Executive Producer : Maineni Prasad
• Director : Kishore Kumar Pardasani (Dolly)
• Producer : Bellamkonda Ganesh
• Studio : Sri Sai Ganesh Productions

Release

The movie was released on 10 May 2013 after being given a U/A Certificate by The Censor Board.^[11]

Reception

Tadakha received good reviews from critics, now running gave it the rating 3/5^[12] Idle brain gave a review of rating 3.25/5 stating "Tadakha has all ingredients to satisfy masses.^[13] apherald.com gave a review of rating 3.5/5 stating Don't Wait For Its DVD."^[14] 123telugu.com gave a review of rating 3.25/5 stating "Tadakha makes for a decent summer watch."^[15] Oneindia Entertainment gave a review stating "Tadakha is a good commercial entertainer and the director has nicely adopted Vettai in Telugu with few changes to suit the tastes of Telugu audience. It has some sentimental scenes to woo family audience. If you have not watched Vettai, don't miss this film."^[16] way2movies.com gave a review of rating 3/5 stating "Thadaka has all the right commercial elements including action, humor, romance, glamour with good technical values, also sticks to the Telugu audiences nativity factor. The film has all the needed elements to set the cash registers ringing at the Box-Office."^[17] Telugucinema.com gave a review of rating 3/5 stating "Tadakha is a decent mass entertainer. Time pass flick. Entertaining first half and glamour quotient are its strong points."^[18]

Box office

Budget

Tadakha was made with a budget of ₹150 million (US$2.3 million) Tamannaah Bhatia took a pay cheque of ₹15 million (US$230,000) for Tadakha and Chaitanya took satellite rights as remuneration. Andrea took ₹5 million (US$78,000) and Sunil took ₹25 million (US$390,000) as their remunerations.^[19]

Soundtrack

Music for the film was composed by S. Thaman. The film's audio was launched on 24 April 2013 at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad through Aditya Music label.^[20]

References

External links

• Tadakha on IMDb