Chhatrapati (film)

Chhatrapati
Directed by	S. S. Rajamouli
Produced by	B. V. S. N. Prasad
Written by	V. Vijayendra Prasad
Starring	Prabhas Raju Uppalapati Shriya Saran Bhanupriya Pradeep Rawat
Music by	M. M. Keeravani
Cinematography	K. K. Senthil Kumar
Edited by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Production company	Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra
Distributed by	Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra Dil Raju
Release dates	30 September 2005 (2005-09-30)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	₹20–24 crore

Chhatrapati is a 2005 Action drama Telugu film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli. Prabhas plays the lead role and Shriya Saran, Bhanupriya, and Pradeep Rawat appear in other roles. The film released on 29 September 2005 and was dubbed into Malayalam and Hindi as Chhatrapati and Hukumat Ki Jung. It is loosely based on the Hollywood film Scarface. The film was remade in Kannada with the name Chhatrapati with Siddhanth and Priyadarshini in lead roles and in Bengali as Refugee.

Plot

Shivaji (Prabhas) and Ashok (Shafi) are the sons of Parvati (Bhanupriya). Shivaji is her stepson, but Parvati showers equal affection on both of them and this is not liked by Ashok, who is her biological son. They are one of the families living on the coast of Sri Lanka. One day, these villagers are forced to evacuate the coast. By Ashok's dislike on Shivaji, he lies to his mother that Shivaji died in the fire that was burning everything. Then he is separated from his family. He ends up in a different boat and lands in Vizag port. He is brought up in the port itself But his search for his mother never ceases. In that process he comes across Neelu (Shriya).

Here, the port is dominated by Baji Rao (Narendra Jha) and some goons using refugee labor for their own gain. Shivaji is an aggressive guy, but is controlled by his well wishers. One day, he reacts aggressively in defence of himself and the other refugees. People start calling him Chhatrapati. Ras Bihari (Pradeep Rawat) comes down to Vizag in the hunt for Shivaji since he killed his brother Baji Rao. Ashok, too, lands in the same place. Realizing that Shivaji is his brother, he joins hands with the bad guys. The story is then of Chhatrapati who is searching for his mother and has a bunch of bad guys including his brother on his back while the entire port looks up to him. The plot is loosely based on Scarface.

Cast

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Shriya Saran was selected as lead heroine marking her first collaboration with Prabhas.

• Prabhas as Chatrapathi/Shivaji
• Shriya Saran as Neelu
• Bhanupriya as Shivaji's mother
• Shafi as Ashok/Akash
• Pradeep Rawat as Raj Bihari
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Appala Nayudu
• Ajay as Ajay
• Kamal Kamaraju as Shivaji's friend
• Sekhar as Bhadram
• L.B. Sriram
• Narendra Jha as Baji Rao
• Supreet as Katraju
• Venu Madhav as Mahesh Nanda
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as Commissioner
• Subbaraya Sharma as Commissioner's assistant
• Srinivas Reddy as Appala Nayudu's assistant
• Surya as Syed Jaffar Khan
• Raghava as Dr. Vihari
• Karate Kalyani
• Y. Vijaya
• Aarthi Agarwal in cameo apparance item number
• Mumaith Khan in item number

Music

The film has seven songs composed by M. M. Keeravani. The track "Gundusoodi" has been reused from the song "Kambangaadu" from the 1992 Tamil movie Vaaname Ellai also composed by M. M. Keeravani.

• "A Vachhi B Pai Valli" - M. M. Keeravani, Mathangi
• "Agni Skalani" - M. M. Keeravani, Mathangi, Mangari
• "Summama Suruyaaa" - Kalyani Malik, Sunitha, Smitha, Niraj Pandit
• "Nallnivanee" - K. S. Chitra
• "Manela Tintivira" - Tippu, Smitha, Kalyani
• "Gundusoodi" - M. M. Keeravani, Sunitha
• "Gala Galagala" - K. S. Chitra, Neerippal, Jassie Gift

Box office

The film had a 100-day run in 54 venues.

Awards

• Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actress - Bhanupriya
• Nandi Award for Best Music Director - M. M. Keeravani

External links

• Chatrapati at IMDb