One of the minor villains is played by Dev Gill and he’s of course good at it. He does exactly what is expected and required from a Tollywood villain. He shouts much and kicks furniture around. Pradeep Rawat is the typical Tollywood villain. I see her as one of the strongest of the current Tollywood heroines as she somehow has managed to successfully act in main role multiple times without a male hero in such a male-centric film industry. Ragada also nicely counts towards my goal to watch all movies by Anushka. Both of them have important roles in the story but are unfortunately forgotten a little before the end of the film. The female lead roles are played by Anushka Shetty and Priyamani, “bullet” and “chocolate”. I don’t really think he’s doing anything that other Tollywood heroes wouldn’t be capable to do. But Nagarjuna still manages to show that he’s the King, at least in Ragada’s universe. Also, many questions and special guests are related to Telugu cinema.) Ragada isn’t as good as some other Nagarjuna’s films, like Manam. I haven’t seen too many of King Nagarjuna’s films but I’ve seen him quite a lot in Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu, the Telugu version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Which is very helpful in learning Telugu as the questions are shown in both Telugu and English. Previously I had seen two Veeru Potla’s films, Varsham (2004) and Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (2005), which are both nice but in my opinion just around average level movies. The plot has so many twists and turns that it would be hopeless to explain it all here, but basically it’s about the hero who likes money and doesn’t like the rich bad mafia guys who are threatening his mother and sister. I actually started to watch the movie a couple of years ago but had to pause after 30 minutes and never remembered to continue. It stars “King” Nagarjuna in the hero role, and the movie indeed repeatedly reminds the audience about who the king is. Ragada is a 2010 Telugu film directed by Veeru Potla. The pack also includes Alluda Majaka which is YouTube-famous for a miraculous tractor fight and horse-sliding under a truck. Four of 12 isn’t a very good subtitle ratio but I think it was worth it for Mutha Mestri. (I haven’t checked the song subs of the other movies.) I knew that not all of them would come with subtitles but it’s a pity that Shiva isn’t subbed, as Shiva DVD by Shalimar has the subs. Unfortunately the songs in Mutha Mestri aren’t subtitled but it’s of course more important to have subtitles in the actual dialogue. Venkatesh: Intlo Illalu Vantintlo Priyuralu (1996, 153 min)įour of the 12 DVDs, including Mutha Mestri, come with English subtitles.Chiranjeevi: Kothala Rayudu (1979, 127 min).Venkatesh: Nirnayam (1991, 164 min) – English subtitles.Nagarjuna: Allari Alludu (1993, 165 min).Chiranjeevi: Mogudu Kaavaali (1980, 125 min).Chiranjeevi: Big Boss (1995, 153 min) – English subtitles.Chiranjeevi: Alluda Majaka (1995, 166 min) – English subtitles.Chiranjeevi: Mutha Mestri (1993, 158 min) – English subtitles.The pack includes the EVP versions of the following DVDs: The product’s description page at Bhavani doesn’t have very detailed information about the pack so I thought that I could make a simple list and take a few photographs of the contents of the pack in case that someone is considering whether to buy it or not.
The box has twelve oldish Telugu movies by “Tri Star” which means the three big stars of Telugu cinema: Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, and Nagarjuna. The EVP DVD has been somewhat difficult to track down but some time ago I noticed that it is included in EVP’s 12 DVD Tri Star Superhits Pack that Bhavani DVD sells for $47.99. According to a research done by Cinema Chaat, the song is included only in the EVP version and the DVD by Moser Baer doesn’t have it. I’ve very much wanted to see Chiranjeevi’s 1993 film Mutha Mestri after I saw the fabulous video of “ We Are Flowers” song.