Episode 195 - Revisiting Bhale Bhale Magadivoy (2015): Review + Interesting Facts

Credits

Banners: GA 2 & UV Creations

Cast: Nani, Lavanya Tripathi, Murali Sharma, Vennela Kishore, Ajay, Praveen, Srinivasa Reddy, Naresh, Vikram Savyasachi, Bhadram, Sitara, Satya Krishnan etc.

Cinematography: Nizar Shafi

Editor: Uddhav SB

Music: Gopi Sunder

Lyrics: Ramajagoayya Sastry, Sri Mani, Bhaskar Batla

Art: Ramana Vanka

Story, screenplay, dialogues & Direction: Maruthi

Producer: Bunny Vas $ VAmsi Pramod 

Release date:  September 4th, 2015

Interesting Facts 

• One day Maruthi was trying to go to the Geetha Arts office, forgot the route, its velladam, ate vellladam, then got an idea what if there’s someone who keep forgetting things, that night thought about it and wrote some scenes and then if we do a story on this thought of doing this after Ee Romulo and Bus Stop movies, but it ran in my mind for 2 years 
• I also have this story to other directors and told them to work on it giving them this point, they sued to get stuck on it, idi avvadule then I made Prema Katha Chitram and then Kotha Janta, then I was in a dilemma whether to make another horror comedy or make this movie, then I told my co writer Swamy and he said ledu ledu idhi kotha point andi, I started to developed it, then I told it to MS Raju during that time, point adiri poyyindi, ventane Sunil gariki phone chesaru, chesthe chala baguntadi, Sunil also liked the point bagindi, develop cheyyi katha vintanu, but Maruthi felt konchem age thakkuva inna hero like Nani chesthe bagiqntadi 
• Then he told UV Vamsi through SKN, then he told Bunny Vasu but during the time he told Bunny Vasu he went away from the story and didnt develop it as much then he stopped and then told Vamsi ill work on it. After Kotha Janta released, he told them after 1 month and worked on the script for 6 months continuously and then on March 3rd, 2015 movie started shooting. 
• Title was confirmed with the title and when he was working with Raviteja at the time and he said bhale gaa undi title and everyone felt in industry felt the same too. Taken from an song in an old Kamal Hassan movie Maro CHarithra 
• Movie is not inspired from any other movie or similarities 
• One afternoon he met Nani. UV Vamsi went to meet Nani and told him maruthi wants to narrate a story and he narrated it for 1 hour. Nani said bhale uni idea, he gave little inputs (Chinna Chinna konni ideal and improvisation icharu), Maruthi garu enjoued the script writing process a lot and they had some discussions about how to akee the 2nd half. Nan also felt after Astham Chamma and Pilla Zamindar I haven’t done an entertainer like this so he also felt it would be good 

• Movie was filmed on a budget of 2.61 crores without actors and technicians remuneration, if all of them added movie cost 7.5 crores with publicity 
• Coming to box office, movie collected 27 crores share becoming a blockbuster at the box office, USA it collected $1,426,527 becoming the 4th highest grossing telugu movie of all time in usa after Baahubali, Srimanthudu, Attarintiki Daredi. Gross it collected more than 55 crores and gave Nani another break in his career 
• Almost every single person associated with the movie got a huge break and they all went onto become busy actors in the industry especially Murali Sharma and Naresh.