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Katamarayudu

Katamarayudu
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Katamarayudu first look poster
Directed by Kishore Kumar Pardasani (Dolly)
Produced by Sharrath Marar
Written by Akula Siva
Screenplay by Akula Siva
Story by Siva
Based on Veeram
Starring Pawan Kalyan
Shruti Haasan
Music by Anup Rubens
Cinematography Prasad Murella
Edited by Gautham Raju
Production
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Release date
  • 29 March 2017 (2017-03-29)
Country India
Language Telugu

Katamarayudu is an upcoming Telugu language action film directed by Kishore Kumar Pardasani which features Pawan Kalyan and Shruti Haasan in the lead roles.It is an official Remake of Tamil blockbuster movie Veeram starring Ajith Kumar and Tamannaah.

After the release of his previous film Sardaar Gabbar Singh (2016), Pawan announced that he would remake Tamil film Veeram (2014) in Telugu with S. J. Surya as a director, despite Tamil film was already dubbed and released in Telugu as Veerudokkade. The title of the film was announced as Katamarayudu named after the song sung by Pawan from the film Attarintiki Daredi (2013). However in a sudden turn of events, Suryah left the project to concentrate on acting assignments as he was the main vilain of upcoming móvie, Sambhavami and he was replaced by Kishore Kumar Pardasany collaborating with Pawan for second time after Gopala Gopala (2015) while Soundarrajan who was the cinematographer was replaced by Prasad Murella. The film began its shoot on September 24 on Secunderabad.

The first look poster of the film was unveiled on October 29, 2016, on the eve of Diwali. Makers released the teaser on February 4 at 4:00 pm. The teaser has received 1 million views in 2 hours, surpassing the previous Khaidi no 150 record of 3 hrs and became the fastest Telugu film to meet this mile stone. It also got 5M + views within 57 hours. It is the first Telugu movie teaser and 5th South Indian film teaser to get 100k likes in YouTube, proving Pawan Kalyan's stamina.


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