Tulasi (film)

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Tulasi
Tulasi Poster.jpg
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Directed by Boyapati Srinu
Written byBoyapati Srinu
Akula Shiva
Paruchuri Brothers
Produced by D. Suresh Babu
Starring
CinematographyB. Balamurugan
Edited by Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by Devi Sri Prasad
Distributed by Suresh Productions
Release date
  • 12 October 2007 (2007-10-12)
Running time
153 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget12 crore
Box office32 crore

Tulasi is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Boyapati Srinu, and produced by D.Suresh Babu on Suresh Productions banner. It stars Venkatesh and Nayantara in the lead roles.the film was a super hit at the box office

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Plot

Parvataneni Tulasi Ram is an architect in Hyderabad who is also the native of Rayalaseema, which is well known for factional feuds. When his wife Vasundhara turns pregnant, Tulasi takes her to their native place. After arriving at the native place, Tulasi turns violent when a rival faction pushes his father Dasaratha Ramayya and the factional feuds continue to haunt him. When Vasundhara's brother Harsha dies in the attack by factionists, Vasundhara could not digest the violence and deserts Tulasi with their son also named Harsha. Later, Tulasi learns that Harsha has a blood clot in his brain, which may cause a hemorrhage. With the help of Dr. Surekha, Tulasi summons specialists from abroad in order to get Harsha operated. When everything is ready for the surgery, a gangster named Veeranna, kidnaps Harsha as both of his sons Ravi and Shankar were killed by Tulasi. However, Tulasi kills Veeranna in order to save Harsha, where Tulasi finally reunites with Vasundhara and Harsha.

Cast

Soundtrack

Tulasi
Soundtrack album by
Released21 September 2007
Recorded2007
Genre Feature film soundtrack
Length26:38
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Shankar Dada Zindabad
(2007)
Tulasi
(2007)
Jalsa
(2008)

Music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Music released on ADITYA Music Company. Audio of Tulasi was launched at a function arranged in the song set at Rama Naidu studios in the evening of 22 September 2007. K. Raghavendra Rao, D. Ramanaidu and KL Narayana attended this function as guests. K. Raghavendra Rao released the audio cassette and gave the first unit to D. Ramanaidu. D. Ramanaidu released the audio CD and gave the first unit to Shriya Saran. [1]

Track listing
No.TitleLyricsArtist(s)Length
1."Mia Mia" Chandrabose Naveen, Mamta Mohandas 4:32
2."Vennelintha Vedigaa"ChandraboseVenu, Sunitha 4:17
3."Thula Thula Thulasi"Chandrabose Tippu, Priya Hemesh 4:37
4."Hello Boys"Chandrabose Devi Sri Prasad 3:48
5."Nee Kallathoti" Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar Chitra, Sagar 3:56
6."Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini
(Raja Raja Bobbili Raja)"
SahithiDevi Sri Prasad, Malgudi Subha 5:10
7."Cheekatanthaa Vennelaaye Chudaraa
(Unreleased/Theatrical Version)"
UncreditedUncredited1:52
Total length:26:38

Release

The film released with 290 prints worldwide, [2] in 312 screens in India which includes 20 screens in Andhra Pradesh, 21 screens in Karnataka and 7 screens in Tamil Nadu. The film had a 50-day run in 225 centres and was declared a super hit. [3] It was later dubbed and released in Tamil and Malayalam with the same title and in Hindi as The Real Man Hero.

Box office

Awards

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