Nagavalli (film)

Nagavalli
Directed by	P. Vasu
Produced by	Bellamkonda Suresh
Written by	Paruchuri Brothers (dialogues)
Screenplay by	P. Vasu
Story by	P. Vasu
Based on	Aptharakshaka (2010)
Starring	Anushka Shetty Venkatesh Richa Gangopadhyay Suja Varunee Shraddha Das Poonam Kaur Kamalinee Mukherjee Rajnikanth (cameo) Jyothika (cameo)
Music by	Gurukiran
Cinematography	Shyam K. Naidu
Edited by	Marthand K Venkatesh
Production company	Sri Sai Ganesh Productions
Release date	16 December 2010 (2010-12-16)
Running time	159 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Nagavalli is a 2010 Telugu horror comedy film produced by Bellamkonda Suresh on Sri Sai Ganesh Productions banner, directed by P. Vasu. Starring Venkatesh, Anushka Shetty, Richa Gangopadhyay, Shraddha Das, Poonam Kaur and Kamalinee Mukherjee in lead roles and music composed by Gurukiran. The film is a sequel to the 2005 Tamil (Telugu dubbed) film Chandramukhi.

The film released on 16 December 2010 to positive reviews and was declared as a Hit at box-office. It is a remake of the 2010 Kannada movie Aptharakshaka starring Vishnuvardhan, Avinash and Vimala Raman. The movie was dubbed in Hindi as Mera Badla - Revenge by Dubbing Company - Zamzam Productions in collaboration with Royal Film Company.

An ancient painting of Chandramukhi, alias Nagavalli (Anushka Shetty), floats away to a distant place, where it finally comes into the hands of a village painter. The painter takes it home to restore it. When his wife asks him to sell the painting, he becomes furious, saying that he wouldn't sell it off even at the cost of his life. The next day, the painter is shown to be dead under mysterious circumstances, possibly being a suicide. The painting is then sold off to a dance competition, which was distributed as a prize to Bharatanatyam dancer Gayathri (Kamalinee Mukherjee), her husband and her family. Gayathri lives in a palatial house in Tirupathi with her husband, father Shankar Rao (Sharat Babu), mother Parvathi (Prabha), sisters Geetha (Shraddha Das) and Gowri (Richa Gangopadhyay), maternal uncle Appa Rao(Dharmavarapu Subramanyam), his wife and maternal cousins Pooja(Poonam Kaur) and Hema(Suja) happily.