Episode 200 - Revisiting Surender Reddy and Raviteja's Kick (2009): Movie Discussion ft. Vamsi Krishna

Credits 

Banner: RR MovieMakers

Cast: Ravi Teja, Ileana, Shyam, Brahmanandam, Kota, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Benerjee, Chalapati Rao

Music: Thaman S
Cinematography: Rasool Ellore
Art: Narayana Reddy
Stunts: Vijay
Editing: Gowtam Raju Screenplay - direction: Surender Reddy Producer: RR Venkat Release date: May 8th, 2009

Interesting Facts 

• Director Surender Reddy first movie blockbuster next two movies flops, so he took a break, he asked Vakkantham Vamsi who we worked on with Ashok to prepare an entertainment subject without an ounce of blood and he told him Kick story. Surender Reddy liked it. Along with Vamsi, they spent it for 6 months, script came out well and dialogues were written by Abburi Ravi  
• First they told it to NTR, NTR said hero characterization is nice but ee time lo experiment cheyyadam avasaram ani reject chesaru, next they met Prabhas, he rejected it, and they he felt the characterization wouldn’t suit anyone else but Rvaiteja, went and met him and Tod him to the story and immediately said yes, at the time he was supposed to do a socio fantasy movie called Kandireega with Krushna Vamsi 
• The budget was too much and that would take a long time so he put that aside and signed this movie, hamayya finally hero dorakaru anukunnaru, Ileana heroine, Kota Rao Ramesh Brahmanandham, Venu Madhav, Sayaji Shinde rest of the cast fixed 
• But for Raviteja opposite/villain role they couldn’t fi d anyone. They asked a lot of people in telugu and even asked Jagapathi Babu, but a Tamil magazine in a movie called Aagamu Puram Surender Reddy saw Shyam stills, and he contacted him and without a 2nd thought, Shyam did the movie 
• October 9th 2008, Ramaniadu studios movie was launched, Hyderabad, Ramoji Film City, Sanghi Temple, Annapurna Studios, Rama Naidu Studios, Switzerland, and Malaysia movie was filmed, Himachal Pradesh they filmed the movie 
• April 2009 shooting finished. April 19th 2009, audio was released and budget 14 crores 
• May 9th, 2009 movie released, movie got stunning openings, new story and Raviteja performance tho movie oopu aadindi 
• Another blockbuster for Raviteja, after 4 years hit for Sruender Reddy, another hit for Ileana, vakkantham Vamsi became a star writer,  and Thaman became a star music director with jus his 2nd film and his telugu debut and Shyam became kick Shyam after. 
• Box office, 50 days in 220 centers and shift centers 100 days in 55 centers collected a share of 28 crores share and more than 40 crores gross at the box office. Appatlo Jalsa movie tho Kalisi it stood as all time top 5 highest grossing telugu movies at the time of it’s release, in 2009 top 3 movies of all time, collected highest share that year after Magadheera I think, 28 crores share not even some star heroes had that record at that time 
• Nizam collected 3 crores share which was also huge. Remade in Tamil, Kannada, and Hindi and I believe it was a success in all the remade languages. 

Agenda 

1) First watch and impressions

2) How your liking towards it grew towards the movie. 

3) Songs and Technicalities - very brief 

4) Writing and Direction 

5) Favorite Scenes and Dialogues 

6) why it will always be a classic