Pandaga Chesko (English: Celebrate Festival) is a Telugu film directed by Gopichand Malineni and produced by Paruchuri Kireeti on the United Movies banner. The film features Ram, Rakul Preet Singh and Sonal Chauhan in the lead roles and Brahmanandam,Sai Kumar in other important roles. The story was penned by Veligonda Srinivas and the screenplay was provided by Kona Venkatand Anil Ravipudi, with the former writing the dialogue. S. Thaman composed the music while Arthur A. Wilson and Gautham Raju handled the cinematography and editing of the film respectively.
The film is about a millionaire who has earned a lot in a foreign country and visits his family in India. The film was officially launched on 17 May 2014 at Film Nagar in Hyderabad. The principal photography of the film started on 16 June 2014 at Hyderabad.
The film received mixed response from the critics but ended up as above average in Ram's Career.
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[hide]Plot[edit]
The movie starts with Karthik (Ram) who runs a multimillion-dollar company in Portugal living with his family. Karthik runs the company where he has employed his own father, brother, and sister and keeps them on their toes to leave no stone unturned to take his company to greater heights. He meets another multimillionaire, Anushka (Sonal Chauhan), for a business deal. She decides to propose Karthik for marriage as a calculated move for their business. She also has to tie the knot with the right guy if she is to inherit her father's wealth. They get engaged, but Karthik's family is disappointed by this proposal.
One of Karthik's companies gets into trouble due to a case registered by Green Army headed by Divya (Rakul Preet) against his factory, so he heads to India to sort out the issue.
He tries hard to convince Divya but all goes in vain. Despite being engaged to Anushka, Karthik goes to an extent to impress Divya in an attempt to convince her to withdraw the case. However Karthik reveals his actual purpose of coming to India later, as he is the son of Bhupathi's (Sampath Raj) sister, who has been staying away from family for twenty-five years. Divya's father and his three brothers abandon their respective wives and send them back to their house to live with their own brother Sai Kumar. All of this is because he refuses to marry Bhupathi's only sister. But again, that is a sacrifice by Sai Kumar because Bhupathi's sister herself confesses that she is in love with someone else. Bhupathi's sister turns out to be Ram's mother.
After seeing the fight of Karthik in attempt to save Divya from brawlers, Bhupati meets Karthik for a marriage proposal with Divya. Karthik then goes to her village to reunite the family against all odds and marry Divya.
Eventually, Karthik reunites the family who were separated for 25 years and marries Divya, bringing Pandaga (festival) for the family.
Cast[edit]
- Ram as Karthik
- Rakul Preet Singh as Divya
- Brahmanandam as Weekend Venkat Rao
- Sonal Chauhan as Anushka (Sweety)
- Adithya Menon as Main Antagonist
- Rao Ramesh as Karthik's father
- Pavitra Lokesh as Karthik's mother
- Tejaswi Madivada as Swathi
- Abhimanyu Singh as Shankar
- Sampath Raj as Bhupathi
- Harish Uthaman
- Raghu Babu as Raghupathi
- Sai Kumar as Sai Reddy
- Mamilla Shailaja Priya
- M. S. Narayana as Swathi's father
- Jaya Prakash Reddy
- Vennela Kishore as Manager Kondi
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
In June 2013, reports emerged that Allu Arjun and Gopichand Malineni would be working together for a film which would be produced by Bandla Ganesh on the Parameswara Art Productions banner.[2] However, in August 2013, it was reported that Dil Raju would produce the film on the Sri Venkateswara Creations banner.[3] In September 2013, Kona Venkat confirmed that he would be penning the story and dialogue of the film.[4] In a turn of events, Ram replaced Allu Arjun while Paruchuri Kireeti issued a press release that he would be producing the film on the United Movies banner.[5][6] The film was titled as Pandaga Chesko in mid-February 2014.[7] In early May 2014, the makers said that the film would be launched on 17 May 2014 and on the said date, the film was launched at Film Nagar in Hyderabad.[8][9][10] S. Thaman composed the music while Arthur A. Wilsonand Gautham Raju handled the cinematography and editing of the film respectively.[11] The first look posters were unveiled on 14 January 2015 on the eve of Bhogi.[12]
Casting[edit]
It was said in mid-February 2014 that Ram would sport a new look in this film.[13] After Ram was selected as the protagonist of the film, Hansika was selected as the heroine of the film in early March 2014.[14] Jagapathi Babu was recruited as the antagonist of the film in early April 2014.[15][16] In early May 2014, Hansika was replaced by Rakul Preet Singh because the former had a lack of dates to accommodate due to multiple projects in hand by then.[17][18] At the same time, reports emerged that Catherine Tresa would be selected as the second heroine in the film.[19] Later she clarified that the makers did approach her for the role of second heroine but she rejected the offer since she was concentrating on main leads only.[20] In mid-May 2014, the first look of Ram in this film was released which featured him stylish costumes.[21] Hyderabad based Telugu actress Priya was selected to play an important character role in the film.[22] In mid-June 2014, it was revealed that Ram would play the role of an NRI who visits his ancestral village to spend some time with his family and Rakul Preet Singh would play his love interest.[23] In the second week of July 2014, Sonal Chauhan was selected as the second heroine in this film.[24] A few more stills of Ram were released on 29 July 2014 which received a positive response.[25][26] Tejaswi Madivada was confirmed as a part of the film's cast in mid-November 2014.[27] Later, Sonal Chauhan confirmed that she too would be seen as a NRI. She said that her characterization is very intense similar to the role Sridevi played inLaadla.[28] Abhimanyu Singh was signed for a parallel lead role alongside Ram and was paired with Sonal Chauhan.[29] Rakul Preet said in an interview that she would be seen as an environmentalist in the film who takes herself too seriously.[30]
