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Directed by | Kishore Kumar Pardasani |
Produced by |
Daggubati Suresh Babu Sharrath Marar |
Screenplay by | Kishore_Kumar_Pardasani Bhoopathy Raja Deepak Raj |
Story by |
Umesh Shukla Bhavesh Mandalia |
Starring |
Daggubati Venkatesh Pawan Kalyan Shriya Saran Mithun Chakraborty |
Music by | Anoop Rubens |
Cinematography | Jayanan Vincent |
Edited by | Gautham Raju |
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Distributed by | BlueSky Cinemas Inc. (United States) |
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153 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹12 crore (120 million) |
Box office | est. ₹88 crore (880 million) |
Gopala Gopala is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language satirical drama film directed by Kishore Kumar Pardasani. The film was jointly produced by Daggubati Suresh Babu and Sharrath Marar under the Suresh Productions and North Star Entertainment banners. It features Daggubati Venkatesh and Pawan Kalyan in the lead roles and Shriya Saran, Mithun Chakraborty and Posani Krishna Murali in key supporting roles. Anoop Rubens composed the music while Jayanan Vincent was the film's cinematographer.
The film is a remake of the 2012 Hindi film OMG – Oh My God! which was itself based on the Gujarati stage play Kanji Viruddh Kanji and on the 2001 film The Man Who Sued God. It follows the story of an atheist, Gopala Rao, who sues God after losing his shop in an earthquake. Religious organisations revolt against him and Krishna visits him as his human guide.
The film was made with a budget of ₹120 million. Production began on 9 June 2014. It was predominantly shot in and around Hyderabad, with a few sections filmed in Vishakhapatnam and Varanasi. The film was released worldwide on 10 January 2015 as a Sankranthi release. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed ₹660 million, with a distributor share of ₹411 million.