Bujjigadu

Bujjigadu
Directed by	Puri Jagannadh
Produced by	K.S. Rama Rao
Written by	Puri Jagannadh
Starring	Prabhas Trisha Mohan babu Sanjana Kota Srinivasa Rao
Music by	Sandeep Chowta
Cinematography	Shyam K. Naidu
Edited by	Varma
Production company	Creative Commercials
Distributed by	Creative Commercials
Release dates	23 March 2008 (2008-03-23)
Running time	146 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Bujjigadu (Telugu: బుజ్జిగాడు) is a 2008 Telugu language film directed by Puri Jagannadh and produced by K. S. Rama Rao. Prabhas plays the lead role, with Trisha Krishnan and Sanjana playing the heroines.^[1] The film has been dubbed into Tamil as Kumaran Rajini Rasigan. This movie is dubbed in Hindi as Deewar-Man of Power and Malayalam as Rudran Mr Munna Made in Chennai. The film was later remade in Bangladesh as Pagla Deewana by Pori Moni & Shah Riaz It was earlier titled as Shadow with Shriya Saran and Prabhas in the lead role, however due to her busy schedule, Shriya opt out from the film.^[2][3][4] This film received a strong support from Superstar Rajinikanth fans.

Plot

Bujji (Prabhas) and Chitti (Trisha Krishnan) are inseparable childhood friends. One day while they are playing, Chitti gets angry as her sand castle was destroyed by Bujji. She scolds him and tells him to go away from her and never to meet her again. When he pleads her, she asks him to prove his sincerity by staying away from her for twelve years and promises to marry him if he does so. Though devastated, Bujjji reluctantly agrees to stay away from her and moves to Chennai to keep a distance. Meanwhile, Chitti's family moves to Hyderabad, cutting all ties from Bujji's family.

Bujji grows up in Chennai and becomes a hooligan though he preserves his soft nature and his love for Chitti. After 12 years he comes back to meet Chitti but caught up in a small brawl and ends up in jail. There he meets the sons of Machi Reddy (Kota Srinivasa Rao) and they offer him one crore to finish off Sivanna (Mohan Babu). Bujji thinks that he could save money for his married life and agrees.But when Bujji tries to kill Sivanna, he is injured. Sivanna gets impressed with his innocence and purity and asks him to stay with him for a while. He stays there on the name of Rajni Kanth, Bujji's favorite actor.

Later Bujji meets Meghana, real name of Chitti(Trisha Krishnan), sister of Sivanna and unable to recognize her as Chitti. After few events, Bujji at last comes to know that Meghana was Chitti and tries to reveal that to Meghana. But Sivanna stops him saying that Meghana would only stay with him till she finds Bujji as she actually hates her brother, since he was responsible for his wife's death. When Machi Reddy learns that he is part of Sivanna's gang, his son shoots Chitti and kidnaps Sanjana, and says to switch her for Sivanna . Chitti sends Bujji to save Sivanna.Bujji thrashehs the goons and kill all.Chitti gets saved and reunites with Bujji and lives with Sivanna.

Release

The film was released worldwide with 750 prints.

Cast

Trisha Krishnan was selected as lead heroine marking her third collaboration with Prabhas.

• Prabhas as Bujjigadu alias Bujji)/Linga Raju/Rajinikanth
• Trisha Krishnan as Chitti / Meghana
• Mohan Babu as Sivanna
• Sanjjanaa Galrani as Kangana
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Machi Reddy
• M. S. Narayana as Prabhas Raju
• Sunil as Sathi
• Brahmaji as Sivanna's henchman
• Subbaraju as Venkat
• Ajay as Machi Reddy's son
• Supreet as Machi Reddy's son
• Mumaith Khan as Chitti from Chilakaluru (Item Song)

Music

The soundtrack for the film was composed by Sandeep Chowta and released on 18 April 2008.

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