King (2008 film)

King
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Directed by	Sreenu Vaitla
Produced by	D.Siva Prasad Reddy
Written by	BVS Ravi (dialogues)
Screenplay by	kona
Story by	Kona Venkat Gopimohan
Starring	Nagarjuna Trisha Arjan Bajwa Mamta Mohandas Srihari
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	Prasad Murella
Edited by	M. R. Varma
Production company	Kamakshi Movies
Release date	25 December 2008 (2008-12-25)
Running time	181 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹170 million (US$2.5 million).
Box office	₹400 million (US$5.9 million).

King is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language action comedy thriller film produced by D Sivaprasad Reddy on Kamakshi Movies banner, directed by Sreenu Vaitla. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Trisha, Arjan Bajwa, Mamta Mohandas, Srihari in lead roles and music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was dubbed into Hindi as King No. 1 and into Tamil as Pudhukottai Azhagan. The film's plot-line is loosely based on the 1966 Telugu film Aastiparulu. The film recorded as Super Hit at box-office.

Raja Chandra Pratap Varma AKA King (Nagarjuna Akkineni) hails from a royal family, having taken over the legacy and riches after the death of his father Raja Ravi Chandra Varma (Sobhan Babu). King has a younger brother Ajay (Deepak), mother (Geetha), maternal uncle (Dharmavarapu Subramanyam) and his late father's three sisters, who are married. Their husbands are (Jaya Prakash Reddy, Krishna Bhagawan, Sayaji Shinde). The uncles steal money, which is for the workers. They make it look as though the employee Chandu is responsible. King believes and fires Chandu. Suddenly, King knew that the uncles hid the money in their room. He kept quiet because of his other family. Before King leaves the airport, this mysterious guy is after King. A few days later, King and Swapna are discussing something next to a graveyard. Same mysterious Guy from airport tries to shoot King, but misses. King chases Shooter to the graveyard, but Shooter suddenly disappeared. Munna calls King's cellphone. King tells Munna that he's in a graveyard. Munna asks, "Are you Ok?" King says, "I'm ok." Unfortunately, Swapna shoots King from behind. King sees Swapna's face. King realizes that Swapna was working with Shooter. Swapna shoots King again. King's presumed dead. Munna tells Police that King went missing. At least 1 day later, when Police takes Munna to Hospital Morgue, a Dead Body looks like King. Munna lies to Police that None of the Corpses is King's body. 2 of the 3 evil uncles say that the 1st evil uncle's responsible for King's disappearance. 1st evil uncle escapes and it's assumed that he's responsible. The mother believes that King's safe.