Mahesh Babu, Bhumika Chawla and Gunasekhar's ‘Okkadu’ is to re-release on January 07th marking 20 years of completion

| etimes.in | Dec 20, 2022, 17:29 IST

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'Okkadu' is one of the first big blockbusters in Mahesh Babu’s career. The film ran so successfully in Telugu states besides getting remade in multiple Indian languages and a superhit in the language it was remade. The film is now gearing up to be re-release on Jan 15 by its producer MS Raju. He is also gearing up to release the movie for fans at least 10 days ahead on January 7.

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These days re-releasing a superhit film has become a trend and a reason for star fans to celebrate. Producer MS Raju has taken to his Twitter and wrote, “Let’s Rock on Jan 7th, The sensation #Okkadu Golden Era repeats @urstrulyMahesh @Dayaarjun (sic)”.

Okkadu is a 2003 romantic action film written and directed by Gunasekhar starring Mahesh Babu and Bhumika Chawla and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. The film’s music was composed by Mani Sharma and it was edited by Multiple award-winning A.Sreekar Prasad.

The film tells the story of a Kabaddi player and his risk for Swapna (Bhumika) from her factionist relative Obul Reddy who tries to forcefully marry her.

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Superstar Krishna who has acted in more than 350 films also directed and edited a few other films besides producing many technological firsts in the Telugu film industry. He also has reportedly introduced a few western film genres into Telugu cinema such as CowBoy, Spy/Detective and JamesBond. Krishna directed 17 feature films and produced many films under his Padmalaya Studios production company along with his brothers Adiseshagiri Rao and Hanumantha Rao. Krishna was one of the highest-paid Telugu actors during his time.

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The above biographical film on the freedom fighter ‘Alluri Seetharama Raju (1974)’ by Krishna under his home banner Padmalaya studios marked his 100^th film. The film is considered to be the first cinema scope film in Telugu. The film later ended up as the highest grossing Telugu film of that year.

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Krishna’s yet another film ‘Eenadu’ made in 1982 has reportedly introduced yet other new technology to colour grade the film. And though ‘Eenadu’ Telugu film industry started using Eastman colour grading technology for all the films until it was replaced by colour processing labs and digital technologies.

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This Krishna’s epic historical fim written, directed, edited, produced and acted by Krishna along side Jaya Prada, Radha and Mandakini was simultaneously made in Hindi as Singhasan and the film was successful at the box-office.

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This time Superstar Krishna’s focus went on sound design and he introduced newly found Ditial theaer system in the us and incorporated the same Technology in this movie revoulutionary film ‘Telugu Veera Levara’ DTS was later replaced by its competitor Dolby sound technology.

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This western action film directed by KSR Das has its screen play written by Aarudra. The film is said to have run for 100 days and was subsequently dubbed into Tamil and Hindi besides having a trimmed Hindi version.

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