Munna (film)

Munna
Directed by	Vamsi Paidipally
Produced by	Dil Raju
Written by	Vamsi Paidipally, Koratala Siva & BVS Ravi
Starring	Prabhas Raju Uppalapati, Ileana D'Cruz, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Cinematography	C. Ram Prasad
Editing by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Release date(s)	2 May 2007
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	15 crore

Munna (Telugu: మున్నా) is a 2007 Tollywood) action film directed by Vamsi Paidipally and produced by Dil Raju, who produced four blockbusters in a row: Dil, Arya, Bhadra, and Bommarillu. Current sensation Ileana D'Cruz was cast opposite Prabhas for the first time. The film was postponed several times due to excessive post-production. The film released on 2 May 2007.

Plot

Munna (Prabhas) is a college student. His aim is to finish off mafia don Kakha (Prakash Raj) who keeps the entire city under his grip. Munna has personal vengeance to take on Kakha. An honest politician Srinivasa Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao) relentlessly works to expose Kakha but gets killed. Meanwhile, Munna’s classmate Nidhi (Ileana D'Cruz) falls in love with him. The twist in the tale is that Kakha is none other than his estranged father who tries to sell off his mother and was responsible for the death of his kid sister. Another don in the city named Aatma (Rahul Dev) asks Munna to join him. After some incidents including the death of his best friend, Munna finds out that Aatma was working for Kakha all along. The two of them plan on killing him in a factory when all of a sudden Aatma turns against Kakha and Munna. Kakha kills Aatma for the betrayal. Having lost everything Kakha worked for in his life, he decides to kill himself.

Cast

• Prabhas as ... Munna
• Ileana D'Cruz as ... Nidhi
• Prakash Raj as ... Kakha
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as ... Srinivasa Rao
• Rahul Dev as ... Aatma
• Shriya Saran ... Special appearance (song)

Music

Munna
Soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj
Released	28 March 2007 (India)
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Label	Supreme Music
Producer	Harris Jayaraj
Harris Jayaraj chronology
Unnale Unnale (2007) Munna (2007) Bheema (2007)

The film has six songs composed by Harris Jayaraj. Music got very good reviews with the song 'Manasa' topping the charts.^[1][2]

Track listing

Song title	Singers
Baga Baga	Shankar Mahadevan
Chammakkuro	Karthik, Anushka Manchandani, Blaaze
Kadhulu Kadhulu	KK, Vishwa
Koncham Koncha	Kailash Kher, Sujatha Mohan
Manasa	Sadhana Sargam, Mahalakshmi Iyer (humming), Haricharan, Naresh Iyer, Krish
Vastaava Vastaava	KK, Pop Shalini, Ananth, Sriram Parthasarathy

Trivia

• Bollywood singer Kailash Kher sang his first Telugu song in this film.
• For the first time, actor Prabhas did a film for a debut director. All his previous films were directed by experienced directors.^[3]
• Actress Shriya Saran appeared in an item number in the film.
• The film has been dubbed in Tamil as Vetri Thirumagan and in Malayalam as Munna.
• Sadhana Sargam won the Filmfare award- Best Singer (Female) award for for the song "Manasa".
• Mahalakshmi Iyer is the playback singer in the film version of "Manasa". Mahalakshmi's voice replaced Sadhana's portions in the song. In the film's Soundtrack CD release Mahalakshmi's voice can only be heard in the humming portions of the song.
• The Hindi version of the film is "Bagawat".

References

1. ^ "cinegoer.com". Catchy Numbers, Good Vocals. http://www.cinegoer.com/areviews/munna.htm. Retrieved 29 March 2007. 
2. ^ "idlebrain.com". Munna – Catchy but commonplace. http://www.idlebrain.com/audio/areviews/munna.html. Retrieved 4 April 2007. 
3. ^ "cinegoer.com". Munna worked with all hit directors. http://blogs.cinegoer.com/?p=1048. Retrieved 9 April 2007. 

External links

• Munna at the Internet Movie Database
• Munna on Vendithera.com - All about Telugu Cinema
• Munna at BharatMovies.com
• Free Hindi at watch-Hindi-movies.com
• Free Hindi at ChakDeFatte.com