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Mirapakay
Mirapakay Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Harish Shankar
Screenplay byRamesh Reddy
Deepak Raj
Vikram Sirikonda
Dialogues by
  • Harish Shankar
Story byHarish Shankar
Produced byRamesh Puppala
Starring
Cinematography C. Ram Prasad
Edited byGautham Raju
Music by S. Thaman
Production
company
Distributed by R. R. Movie Makers
Release date
  • 13 January 2011 (2011-01-13)
Running time
160 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Mirapakay (transl. Chilli) is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Ramesh Puppala under Yellow Flowers. The film stars Ravi Teja in the lead role, alongside Richa Gangopadhyay, Deeksha Seth, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Nagababu in supporting roles. The music was composed by S. Thaman, while cinematography and editing were handled by C. Ram Prasad and Gautham Raju.

Contents

Mirapakay was released on 13 January 2011, coinciding with Makara Sankranti, and became a commercial success at the box office.

Plot

Rishi alias Mirapakay, an IB officer, is assigned by IB chief Murthy to nab Shankar, who is the agent of Kittu, a crime boss, as Kittu is planning to spread his operations in the country. Rishi finds Shankar's location in Hyderabad and goes undercover as a college lecturer. Rishi meets Vinamra, who also studies in the college where Rishi is the lecturer. Rishi and Vinamra soon fall in love with each other. Rishi learns from Murthy that Vaishali, Kittu's daughter, is also studying in the same college. Murthy asks Rishi to extract information about Kittu from Vaishali. Rishi makes Vaishali fall for him and reaches Kittu after killing Shankar and Linga. Rishi finally arrests Kittu and his gang, where he meets Vinamra and convinces her to marry him.

Cast

Production

After the commercial disappointment of Shock , Harish Shankar faced struggles in his career and narrated the script of Mirapakay in the title Romantic Rishi to Pawan Kalyan, After listening to interval episode, Pawan Kalyan agreed to star in the project, but the project did not materialise due to certain reasons. It was Ravi Teja, who gave Harish's birth and rebirth as a director. During the shooting time of Shock, Ravi Teja said that he would do another film with him irrespective of the commercial outcome of the film. Harish Shankar was feeling guilty and did not approach him. Ravi Teja called him and asked for a story, where he narrated the script of Mirapakay. [1] Richa Gangopadhyay was signed after Harish Shankar had noticed her at the success party of her previous film Leader . Harish Shankar initially offered her the role played by Deeksha as she was an NRI. When they met to review the script, Harish was convinced that she would do justice to the character of Vinamra, a traditional Brahmin girl. [2]

Soundtrack

Mirapakay
Soundtrack album by
S. Thaman
Released12 November 2010
Recorded2010–2011
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length26:25
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer S. Thaman
S. Thaman chronology
Ragada
(2010)		Mirapakay
(2010)		 Mambattiyan
(2011)

The audio of the film was launched on 5 December 2010 at Taj Deccan Hotel, Hyderabad. T. G. Venkatesh, Ram Gopal Varma and Atchi Reddy launched audio cassettes, CDs and trailers respectively. D. Ramanaidu, S. S. Rajamouli, V. V. Vinayak, Gopichand Malineni, Vamsi Paidipally, Chandra Bose and others attended the function. [3] The songs "Vaishali", "Silakaa" and "Dhinaku Dhin" were reused by Thaman in Tamil films Osthe and Ishtam respectively. [4]

Track-List
No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Adigora Choodu" Anantha Sreeram Ravi Teja,
Karthik,
Rahul Nambiar,
Aalap Raju,
Ranjith 		4:12
2."Vaishali Vaishali" Bhaskarabhatla S. Thaman4:22
3."Gadi Thalupula" Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Geetha Madhuri, Karthik,
S. Thaman		4:48
4."Silakaa" Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar K. S. Chithra,
Rahul Nambiar		4:39
5."Dhinaku Dhin" Chandrabose Shankar Mahadevan,
Shreya Ghoshal 		4:46
6."Chirugaley"Sahithi Rita Thyagarajan,
Megha,
Janani, Sravana Bhargavi,
Vardhini, Ranjith,
Naveen Madhav		2:22
7."Mirapakaay" Harish Shankar Ranjith,
Rita Thyagarajan 		1:16
Total length:26:25

Release

Mirapakay was released on 13 January 2011, coinciding with Makara Sankranti. The film has been dubbed in Hindi as Khallas and into Tamil as Murattu Singam.

Reception

Oneindia Entertainment wrote "The audiences could enjoy the film in a festival mood and relax without cursing the hero or the director." [5] Sify wrote "Despite a banal storyline, the film has entertainment value, punch and a decent presentation. This Ravi Teja starrer comes as a pucca mass entertainer for Sankranthi." [6] Super Good Movies wrote "If you have no complaints to watch an entertaining film even though it is a routine fare, then you can happily go for Mirapakay." [7] Telugu Cinema wrote "If you are not tired of seeing Ravi Teja doing same role again and again, showing off same histrionics without much variation, then Mirapakay may seem time-pass one." [8] 123Telugu wrote "Mirapakaya, at the end of the day is pure Tollywood tamasha. It's a Ravi Teja movie and he never disappoints a fan, who is in search of some good old fun, and whats more it is festival time and a few laughs will definitely do you a world of good." [9] Idlebrain wrote "It is a proven fact that Ravi Teja’s movies have scant respect for story and screenplay and majorly depend on the entertainment aspect." [10]

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