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Don Seenu Directed by Gopichand Malineni Produced by RR Venkat
V Suresh ReddyWritten by Gopichand Malineni Starring Music by Mani Sharma Cinematography Sameer Reddy Editing by Gowtam Raju Rao Distributed by - RR Moviemakers
- Lotus Five Star
- Great India Films
Release date(s) June 21, 2010(Malaysia)
August 6, 2010 (India)[3]Running time 165 minutes[4] Country India Language Telugu Budget 23 crores [5] Box office 25 crore (US$5.07 million) Don Seenu is an 2010 Telugu film starring Ravi Teja and Shriya Saran[6][7][8] in the lead roles while actor Srihari plays a key role in the film. Hindi actress Anjana Sukhani[9][10][11] is also a part of the film, which is her first in Telugu . Music has been scored by Mani Sharma and the film has been directed by a debutant Gopichand Malineni. Shriya has made her comeback in Telugu cinema after a long gap of 5 years.[12][13] The film was releases on August 6, 2010 and got positive reviews. This film is going to be remade into hindi with either Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan or Saif Ali Khan in Ravi Teja's role [14][15], the film was dubbed into Hindi as Sabse Bada Don and was released in 2010.
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Plot
This story is all about an ambitious boy named Seenu (Ravi Teja) who dreams of becoming a don. He always likes to be called as ‘Don’ Seenu since childhood due to the strong influence of the Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Don’. He grows up with just one passion - that of becoming the World's No: 1 Don. Thanks to his enterprising nature, he gains access to the cream of the city's dons, and uses his cleverness to play off the top two - Machiraju (Sayaji Shinde) and Narsingh (Sri Hari), fierce rivals - against each other. Seenu wants to join one of these dons and grow up in the ranks. He joins hands with Machiraju(Sayaji Shinde). In the process he is given a task to go to Germany and win the heart of Narsing’s sister whose marriage is fixed with the son of the super don Mukesh (Mahesh Manjrekar). Seenu goes to Germany and wins the heart of Deepthi (Shriya) and later, he discovers that he was shown the wrong girl. The wrong girl is none another than Deepthi (Shriya), who is the sister of Machiraju. This leads to various turns in the plot. What happens next is all about how Seenu achieves his dream of becoming a don and live happily with Deepthi or does he?
Cast
- Ravi Teja as Don Seenu. Seenu, is a diehard fan of Amitabh Bachhan and adores his film Don a lot and right from his childhood he calls himself Don Seenu. His life ambition is to become a Don in Hyderabad one day. As he make Machiraju's and Narsing's sister falls in love with him in Germany, in order to achieve his life ambition.
- Shriya Saran as Deepti. Deepti, is the sister of Machiraju. As she going to Germany, Seenu followed her and love her and misunderstanding her as the sister of Narsing.
- Srihari as Narsing. Narsing is a famous don in Hyderabad and Machiraju is his enemy in order to dominate the Hyderabad.
- Anjana Sukhani as Priya. Priya is the sister of Narsing. As Seenu misunderstood that Deepti is the sister of Narsing and make her fall in love with him, he also makes Priya to fall love with him.
- Sayaji Shinde as Machiraju. Machiraju is another famous don in Hyderabad. As he wants to demolish Narsing from dominate Hyderabad, he sent Seenu, his worker to love Narsing's sister. Seenu soon make his own sister, Deepti to fall in love with him. Micharaju start to think kill Seenu with the help of Narsing.
Other cast are include :
- Brahmanandam as Vishwas
- Ali as Rams
- Mahesh Manjrekar as Don Mukesh
- Raghubabu
- Krishna Bhagawan
- Duvvasi Mohan
- Brahmaji
- Delhi Rajeswari
- Satyam Rajesh
Soundtrack
Don Seenu Soundtrack album by Mani Sharma Released 22 July 2010 Recorded 2010 Genre Feature film soundtrack Length 24:32 Label Think Music Producer Mani Sharma Mani Sharma chronology Subapradham
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(2010)Don Seenu's soundtrack is composed by Mani Sharma. The soundtrack album, which was released on 22 July at Taj Deccan Hotel in Hyderabad,[16] Noted director Dasari Narayana Rao released the first audio CD, whereas movie mughal D. Ramanaidu released the audio cassette. It features 6 songs, which one being a remix. Ramajogayya Sastry has written the lyrics for three songs, whilst Bhaskarabhatla have write lyrics for two songs, besides that, Vennelakanti also have penned for one song.
Tracklist No. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length 1. "Aidhella Vayasu" Ramajogayya Sastry Baba Sehgal 4:53 2. "Raja Raja Ravi Teja" Ramajogayya Sastry Sri Krishna, Geetha Madhuri 4:15 3. "Nayanakana" Bhaskarabhatla Venu, Rita, Bhargavi Pillai 4:11 4. "Aduguthundi" Vennelakanti Hemachandra, Malavika 4:25 5. "Andhamemo Istaraku" Bhaskarabhatla Hemachandra, Malavika 4:17 6. "Aidhella Vayasu (Remix)" Ramajogayya Sastry Baba Sehgal 3:14 Total length:25:25 Reception
The movie opened with extremely positive reviews[17] and eventually became one of the biggest hits of 2010.[18]
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