Bejawada (film)


Bejawada or Bezawada is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language action crime film based on the Vijayawada Gang Warfare, directed by Vivek Krishna and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film features Naga Chaitanya and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The movie received extremely negative reviews and was declared as disaster at the box office. Later it was dubbed in Hindi as Hero: The Action Man and also in Tamil as Vikram Dhadha.

Plot

Kali Prasad aka Kali is the man of masses in Bejawada. His group has a stronghold on temple city. Vijay Krishna is right hand to Kali. Kali's brother Shankar Prasad aka Shankar does not like the supremacy of Vijay Krishna. Due to this personal grudge, Shankar plays spoil sport of brutally killing his brother Kali and then spreads the rumor in Bejawada about Vijay Krishna as man behind this murder. With the help of politician Ramana, Shankar plans to become a politician but fails due to Vijay Krishna's authority on Student and Labor Unions. Vijay Krishna has two brothers Jaya Krishna and Siva Krishna. Shankar assassinates Vijay Krishna for building his own identity. It is time now for cool, daring and dashing Siva Krishna to enter the scene for completing revenge saga. How the love life of Siva Krishna with college-mate Geeta, daughter of top brass policeman Adi Vishnu, is affected in the process forms another angle in story.

Cast

announced that he was to direct a Telugu film titled Bejawada Rowdilu in a press note in September 2010, which would revolve around the rowdy wars of Vijayawada, also known as Bejawada. The title started a controversy from vijayawada locales who felt that title wrongly defamed their city, so Varma in August 2011 announced that the film would simply be known as Bejawada. The film was officially launched on 12 May 2011 with Ram Gopal Varma's protégé, Vivek Krishna, announced as the director. The team held a photo shoot and filmed for two days in Vijayawada with Preetika Rao, before removing her from the project with the producer citing that she looked older than the lead actor, Naga Chaitanya. She was subsequently replaced by Amala Paul.

Critical reception

The film received extremely negative reviews, both from critics and audiences. 123telugu rated it 1.75/5, lamenting that the film had "No of heroism in the first half, no villainism in second half". Greatandhra rated it 2/5 and said that the film had "racha to do with the history". Rediff.com rated it 1.5/5 and stated that "Bezawada is let down by its script". The Times Of India rated it 1/5 and said that "Despite all the expectations riding on it, "Bejawada" joins the long list of disasters from the RGV factory."

Soundtrack

The audio songs were released in a FM Studio in Hyderabad. Bejawada's audio release function was a rather low key affair. The songs released in the market on 7 November. Vikram Negi, Bapitutul, Amar Mohile, Pradeep Koneru, Prem have scored the music for Bejawada.
Track #SongSinger CompositionLyricsLength
1"Durgamma Krishnamma"Jojo NathanielVikram NegiRehman05:09
2"Adagaku Nannemi"Javed Ali, Chandreyee BhattacharyaBapitutulKaluva Sai03:52
3"Ninnu Chusina"Javed Ali, Swetha PanditAmar MohileSira Sri05:00
4"Konte Choopulu"Vedala Hemachandra, Geetha MadhuriPradeep KoneruRehman03:38
5"Rammu Ginnu"Deepthi ChariPraveen KoneruSira Sri05:38
6"Aigiri Nandini"Ravi ShankarSri Adi Shankaracharya04:11
7"Beza Beza"Jojo NanathielAmar MohileSira Sri03:04
8"Le Legara"SrikanthPremChaitanya Prasad04:15

Accolades

; SIIMA Awards