Ram-Leela is a 2015 Indian Kannada-language action comedy film directed by Vijay Kiran and produced by Soundarya Jagadish. The film stars Chiranjeevi Sarja and Amulya, pairing up for the first time, in the lead roles.[1] The film is a remake of Telugu film, Loukyam starring Gopichand and Rakul Preet Singh.[2]
| Ramleela | |
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| Directed by | Vijay Kiran |
| Screenplay by | Vijay Kiran |
| Story by | Sreedhar Seepana |
| Based on | Loukyam by Sreedhar Seepana |
| Produced by | Soundarya Jagadish |
| Starring | Chiranjeevi Sarja Amulya |
| Cinematography | Bharani K. Dharan |
| Music by | Anup Rubens |
Production company | Soundarya Jagadish Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
The principal photography of the film commenced from 2 April 2015. Actor Darshan released the trailer of the film in early October 2015.[3] The film released on 12 November 2015.[4] The introduction of the character Boiling Star Bablu spoofs the hero introduction scene of Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari and the same character spoofs the interval fight sequence of Veera Madakari in the climax of the film. The theatrical poster of the 1975 movie Thrimurthy was used in the film to show an edited photo of Ram, his father, and grandfather. The comedy sequences of heroine cheating boys in cafe shop in the name of love was copied from the 2013 movie Balupu.
Plot
Loukyam opens with Venky kidnapping the sister of Babji, as she is marrying Bharath although she is in love with someone else. He goes to Hyderabad and waits for everything in his home, Warangal to clear. He stays with his friend, Shyamala. There he falls for Chandrakala, the sister of Sathya, a don in Hyderabad. Chandrakala rags other students in the college using her brother's power. After her initial rejection, Venky gets her to reciprocate his feelings. Meanwhile, Babji comes to Hyderabad in order to reach Sippy, the driver who helped Venky kidnap Babji's sister. Babji, unaware of the fact that he is traveling in Sippy's taxi, goes around Hyderabad with Boiling star Bablu, a rising Television star.
Meanwhile, Keshava Reddy, a politician is behind Chandrakala's life. He conducts an attack on her through which Venky discovers that Chandrakala is actually Babji's second sister and that he had sent her with Sathya to Hyderabad to maintain a low profile. Babji readies Chandrakala to marry Bharath. He also continues to search for whoever (Venky) abducted his sister. Using the help of Nano Shastri (Krishna Bhagavaan), Venky manages to get Babji and Chandrakala into his house. He learns that the reason Kesava Reddy wants to kill Chandrakala is that his younger sister committed suicide because she loved Babji although he did not reciprocate the same. He hires Hamsa Sippy (Hamsa Nandini), Sippy's wife, to act like his father, Meka Papa Rao (Chandra Mohan) a.k.a. Puppy's wife. He tells Babji's elder sister to return on the engagement day to act as if not married and Babji fixes the marriage of his elder sister with Bharat. But unexpectedly, they all come to know that the girl is pregnant and so Bharat refuses to marry.
Then Venky tells Babji that his brother who is actually Babji's sister's husband and is acting as Venky's brother will marry his sister. Babji agrees for the wedding and, in turn, tells Chandrakala that she is to marry Bharat again. Through an attack incident, Venky learns that Bharat is Kesava Reddy's son. He tells Kesava Reddy that even Babji is aware of this fact and is planning to kill Bharat on a trip to Srisailam. Kesava Reddy ends up believing him and attacks Babji and the group on the way. He foolishly reveals to Babji that Bharat is his son and that he is aware Babji will kill him. When Kesava Reddy realizes his folly, he kidnaps Chandrakala and Bharat and escapes from the spot. Boiling star Bablu who mistakes it to be a serial shoot stops Kesava Reddy on the way which gives Venky enough time to reach Kesava Reddy. In a thrilling climax, Venky gets Babji to beat up Kesava Reddy and using his "Sympathy angle" trick, which he had earlier used to get Babji and his sister together, He gets Babji to agree for his and Chandrakala's wedding as well. The film ends with Sippy saying that with "Loukyam"(Tact), you can fool not only Babji but even God and Boiling star Bablu saying he is Cool Bablu from now on and he will do only comedy serials and not action ones.
Cast
- Chiranjeevi Sarja as Ram
- Amulya as Chandrakala "Chandu"
- Sanjjanaa Galrani
- Urvashi as Baby
- Sadhu Kokila as Taxi Driver Sippy "Siphone Sridhar"
- Rangayana Raghu as Mekedaatu Paapanna
- Chikkanna
- Ravishankar Gowda as Boiling Star Bablu
- Ravi Kale as Ugrappa
- Shobharaj as Don Annaji
- Master Snehith
- Kuri Prathap
- Taranga Vishwa
- Mohan Juneja
- Vijay Koundinya
- Kaddipudi Chandru
- P. N. Sathya
- Victory Vasu
- Tennis Krishna
- Tulasi Shivamani
Production
Producer Soundarya Jagadish obtained the remake rights of the Telugu film Loukyam and chose a debutant director Vijay Kiran to direct the film giving a large amount of native touch to the remake. Vijay Kiran wrote the screenplay as well for the film and roped in actress Amulya and music director Anup Rubens to the team. The team went to Georgia to shoot the song sequences making it the first Kannada film to shoot in those locations.[5][6] Actress Sanjjanaa was roped in to play a special guest character role.[7]
Soundtrack
| Ramleela | ||||
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| Released | 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 16:53 | |||
| Label | Anand Audio Video | |||
| Producer | Anup Rubens | |||
| Anup Rubens chronology | ||||
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The film's soundtrack and original score is composed by Anup Rubens who also composed the original Telugu version. A total of 5 songs have been composed out of which two are taken from the original version and the rest are created by the composer. Actor Puneeth Rajkumar recorded his voice for a song which was launched by actor Dhruva Sarja.[8] A unique idea of launching each song making it a total of six audio launches has been planned for the film's soundtrack. Reportedly, there would be five different audio launches for the five tracks and a final launch officially for all the tracks.[9]
The second track was officially launched at actor Upendra's residence. The song featuring Sanjjanaa was released by Upendra and Priyanka Upendra on Sanjjanaa's birthday.[10] A week later, the third song was released by actor Shiva Rajkumar.[11]
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Oh Vayyari" | D. C. Sudarshan | Puneeth Rajkumar | 3:22 |
| 2. | "O Amulya Amulya" | K. Kalyan | Vijay Prakash, Apoorva Sridhar, Santhosh Venky | 3:39 |
| 3. | "Neenu Banda Mele" | Kaviraj | Sonu Nigam, Shravani | 3:55 |
| 4. | "Arey Sunny Leone" | D. C. Sudarshan | Ranina Reddy, Anup Rubens | 3:53 |
| 5. | "RamLeela title" | D. C. Sudarshan | Chorus | 2:04 |
| Total length: | 16:53 | |||
References
- ^ "Amulya, Chiru to be Sandalwood's Ramleela". The Times of India. 17 May 2015.
- ^ "Chiru's latest is Ramleela". The New Indian Express. 24 March 2015.
- ^ "Darshan releases Ramleela trailer". Chitraloka. 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Ramleela Censored U - Releases on 12th". Chitraloka. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- ^ "Ramleela song sequences to be shot in Georgia". YTalkies. 19 June 2015.
- ^ "What is Chiranjeevi doing in Georgia?". Times of India. 17 June 2015.
- ^ "Sanjjana roped in for Ramleela". YTalkies. 7 April 2015.
- ^ "After Darshan, It Is Puneeth in Ramleela". Chitraloka. 8 October 2015.
- ^ "Six audio launches for Ramleela". Bangalore Mirror. 7 October 2015.
- ^ "Ramleela Second Song Released". Chitraloka. 14 October 2015.
- ^ "Shivanna Releases Third Song of Ramleela". Chitraloka. 19 October 2015.