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Pawan Kalyan and Ileana
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Directed by | Trivikram Srinivas |
Produced by | Allu Aravind |
Written by | Trivikram Srinivas |
Starring |
Pawan Kalyan Ileana D'Cruz Kamalinee Mukherjee Parvati Melton Makarand Deshpande |
Narrated by | Mahesh Babu |
Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
Cinematography |
K. V. Guhan Rasool Ellore |
Edited by | Sreekar Prasad |
Distributed by | Geetha Arts |
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167 minutes |
Country | India |
Language | Telugu |
Budget | ₹15 crore (US$2.2 million) |
Box office | ₹29 crore (equivalent to ₹57 crore or US$8.4 million in 2016)(Share) |
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Soundtrack album by Devi Sri Prasad | |
Released | 2 April 2008 |
Genre | Film soundtrack |
Label | Aditya Music |
Producer | Allu Aravind |
Jalsa (English translation: Fun) is a 2008 Telugu action comedy film directed by Trivikram Srinivas and produced by Allu Aravind, under the Geetha Arts banner. The film stars Pawan Kalyan, Ileana D'Cruz and Parvati Melton in pivotal roles. The soundtrack of the film, composed by Devi Sri Prasad, was launched on 29 February 2008. The film was originally scheduled to be released on 27 March 2008, but because of delays in the digital intermediate (DI) process, the film was released on 2 April 2008 and became successful at the Tollywood Box office. The movie was dubbed in Hindi as Yeh Hai Jalsa. Jalsa was released with 400 prints in 800 theaters across 1000 screens worldwide on 2 April 2008.Jalsa collected ₹29 crore (US$4.3 million)(Share) in 100 days and turned out to be biggest grosser of the year.
Sanjay Sahu (Pawan Kalyan) is a post-graduate from Osmania University and is working as a gym instructor. He is in love with Indu (Kamalini Mukherjee) who wishes to marry him. So she makes him meet her father (Prakash Raj), who is a police officer and also happens to be his old acquaintance. Her father declines to approve their love and she is forced to marry according to her father's choice. Meanwhile, Bhagmathi a.k.a. Bhagi (Ileana D'Cruz) and her friend Jyothsna a.k.a. Jo (Parvathi Melton) are chased by hoodlums before being rescued by Sanjay. Meanwhile, Jo and Bhagi are ragged in the college before being again rescued by Sanjay. Both begin to like Sanjay and even decide, to propose their love to him without the knowledge of the other. However, it is Jo who proposes first to Sanjay, who rejects her. Careful after seeing her friend's love rejected, Bhagi, with the help of Sreenu (Sunil), begins wooing Sanjay.