Aadi (2002 film)

Aadi
Aadi
Soundtrack album by Mani Sharma
Released	2002
Recorded	2002
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	27:18
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma chronology

Aadi
Aadi
Directed by	V.V. Vinayak
Written by	Bhethala; Paruchuri Brothers
Produced by	Bellamkonda Suresh
Starring	N. T. Rama Rao Jr.; Keerti Chawla; Rajan P. Dev
Music by	Mani Sharma
Release date	28 March 2002
Running time	162 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Aadi is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by debutant V. V. Vinayak. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Keerthi Chawla. It is remade in Tamil as Jai and in Bengali as Surya. The film won four Nandi Awards.

Story[]

The story is set against the backdrop of Rayalaseema. The film opens with Veera Reddy (Ahuti Prasad) returning from the US after a long gap with his wife and 8-year-old son, Aadi Kesava Reddy. Veera Reddy's deceased father was a well-known factionist in that area and owned a property of 4,000 acres (16 km²). While leaving for the US, Veera Reddy gave the responsibility of managing this land to Nagi Reddy (Rajan P. Dev). Now back in India, Veera Reddy realizes that Nagi Reddy is misusing his power. He wants to donate all his land to the 2000 families staying in that village. When Nagi Reddy comes to know of this charity giveaway, he attacks Veera Reddy, killing him and his wife. Veeranna (Chalapati Rao), a trusted lieutenant of Veera Reddy, takes the child Aadi and escapes to Hyderabad. After the murders, Veera Reddy's trusted people are put in jail with a prison sentence of 14 years.

Then the film titles roll, ending with the caption '12 years later'. We see the grown up Aadi (N. T. Rama Rao Jr.) studying in college. He falls in love with Nandu (Keerthi Chawla) and vice versa. Veeranna has raised Aadi in Hyderabad as a fun-loving boy, but he is also a hot-tempered young man. Later on, it is revealed that Nandu is Nagi Reddy's daughter. Completing her studies, Nandu returns to her hometown at her father's place. After a hiatus of 14 years, Aadi reenters the Rayalaseema along with other trusted members of his father, who are released from jail. Aadi wants to take revenge on Nagi Reddy and get back all the land so that he can distribute it to the villagers. The rest of the film deals with how Aadi achieves his objective.

This movie was released in 118 centres and ran for 100 days in 98 centres.

Cast[]

N. T. Rama Rao Jr. as Aadi Keshava Reddy
Keerti Chawla as Nandu
Ahuti Prasad as Veera Reddy
Chalapathi Rao as Veeranna ��Babai”
Rajan P. Dev as Nagi Reddy
Ali as comedian
L. B. Sriram as College Principal
M.S. Narayana as Nagi Reddy's assistant
Rajiv Kanakala as Rajiv
Raghu Karumanchi as Erra Srinu / Sri Krishnananda Swamy
Venu Madhav
Chitram Seenu
Raghu Babu
Fish Venkat
Karate Kalyani
Ramya Sri in a Guest role

Production[]

When Vinayak was assisting director Sagar for the film Padutha Theeyaga, producer Bellamkonda Suresh used to observe him. He promised him that he would give Vinayak an opportunity to prove himself. After Paaduthaa Theeyagaa, He was not doing much as an assistant and thus started working on his own scripts. When Suresh offered to make a film with him, he was thrilled and narrated the story to NTR. NTR liked the subject. It was a love story. But Kodali Nani didn't like it. After a couple of days, he narrated another story that was instantly liked and taken to the sets, and that was the story of Aadi. They went to Mumbai to search for a heroine. They considered Aarti Agarwal, but she had just signed on the dotted line for Nuvvu Naaku Nacchaav. They also considered Ayesha Takia, but their cameraman felt that she wasn't the right choice for NTR. Seeing the Fair & Lovely ad, Vinayak felt Trisha would be an ideal choice, but his sister didn't like her. They dropped that idea, too, with a primary belief that if ladies didn't like much, then it will just not work out. While in Mumbai still, they also met Sada also there, but she'd have been so lean beside NTR, they thought, and we dropped her too. During all this, the shooting was already in progress! Thus, we had to find just someone. That's how it all happened.^[1]

Box office[]

Aadi by collected 20 crore share revenue from its theatrical run(with a budget of 3.2 crores). It became the second highest grossing Telugu movie at that time, second only to Narasimha Naidu. Aadi ran for 50 days in 121 centers and 100 days in a record 96 direct centers.^[2]^[3]

Soundtrack[]

The music was composed by Mani Sharma and released by Aditya Music.

Track list
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Ayyo Rama"	Bhuvana Chandra	S. P. Balu, Gopika Poornima	04:40
2.	"Sunnunda"	Chandrabose	Murali, Radhika	04:39
3.	"Tholi Pilupey"	Chandrabose	S. P. Balu, K. S. Chithra	04:16
4.	"Nee Navvula"	Chandrabose	Mallikarjun, Sunitha	04:43
5.	"Chikki Chikki"	Pothula Ravikiran	Tippu	03:56
6.	"Pattu Okato"	Chandrabose	Udit Narayan, Ganga	05:04
Total length:				27:18

Awards[]

Nandi Awards^[4]

Best First Film of a Director - V. V. Vinayak
Best Editor - Gowtham Raju
Special Jury Award - Jr. NTR
Best Lyricist - Chandrabose

References[]

^ "Star Interviews: Interview with V. V.Vinayak". Telugu Cinema. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-12.
^ Idlebrain
^ Jr NTR hits and flops Box-Office collections
^ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)

External links[]

Aadi at IMDb

[1] "Star Interviews: Interview with V. V.Vinayak". Telugu Cinema. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-12.

[2] Idlebrain

[3] Jr NTR hits and flops Box-Office collections

[4] "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964–2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964–2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 21 August 2020.(in Telugu)

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