Baladoor

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Baladoor
Baladur Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by K. R. Udhayashankar
Written byK. R. Udhayashankar
Produced by D. Suresh Babu
Starring
Narrated byLakshmi Bhoopal
CinematographyB. Balamurugan
Edited by Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by K. M. Radha Krishnan
Production
company
Distributed bySuresh Productions
Release date
  • 14 August 2008 (2008-08-14)
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Baladoor is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by K. R. Udhayashankar and produced by D. Suresh Babu under Suresh Productions. The film stars Ravi Teja, Krishna, and Anushka Shetty while Chandra Mohan, Pradeep Rawat, Sunil and Brahmanandam play supporting roles. The film has music composed by K. M. Radha Krishnan with editing performed by Marthand K. Venkatesh. The film was released on 14 August 2008. [1] The film was later dubbed in Hindi as Dhamkee in 2011 and remade into Oriya as Mu Kana Ete Khara.

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Premise

Chanti respects his uncle Rama Krishna more than his father, Purushotham. Rama Krishna has enmity with Umapathi because of something that happened 20 years ago. Later, Chanti is kicked out of their house because of some misunderstandings, and Umapathi is ready to put Rama Krishna down. How Chanti secretly helps Rama Krishna in bringing the enemy down and reunites with his family forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Soundtrack

Baladoor
Soundtrack album to Baladoorby
Released
  • 30 July 2008 (2008-07-30)
Recorded2008
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length32:19
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer K. M. Radha Krishnan
K. M. Radha Krishnan chronology
Bhale Dongalu
(2008)
Baladoor
(2008)

K. M. Radha Krishnan composed the soundtrack album, which is released on 30 July 2008 by Aditya Music. Chandrabose, Peddada Murthy, and Ananta Sriram gave the lyrics whereas actor Venkatesh released the album CD. [2]

Track list
No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Yetu Podam" Ananta Sriram Naveen, Rita 04:37
2."Andhamaina" Chandrabose Karunya 04:08
3."Nuvvu Koncham"Chandrabose Rahul Nambiar, Saindhavi 04:11
4."Rangu Rangu"Chandrabose Tippu , Sujatha Mohan 04:11
5."Gundelo Illundhi"Chandrabose K. S. Chithra, Karunya04:09
6."Thella Cheera"Peddada Murthy Sukhwinder Singh, Anuradha Sriram 04:08

Reception

Radhika Rajmani of Rediff.com rated the film 2+12 stars out of 5 and wrote: "Uday Shankar takes up a stereotypical storyline in Baladoor and manages to entertain with a satisfactory screenplay in a formulaic way with a mix of action, comedy and romance." [3] Zamin Ryot 's Alluru Rahim in criticized the film's "lackluster screenplay" and added that the director did not handle sentiment properly. [4] In an other negative review, Y. Sunita Chowdhary of The Hindu stated, "Baladoor is an average film, as the banner doesn’t offer nothing new in narration." [5]

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