Iddarammayilatho

The Central Minister (Rao Ramesh) is facing accusations over possessing black money of 100,000 crore and money laundering it into Europe through his unsuspecting daughter Akanksha (Catherine Tresa), a psychology student who goes to Barcelona to pursue higher education. Akanksha finds a diary in her flat in Barcelona, and out of curiosity, she starts reading the book, which unfolds the romantic drama between Sanju Reddy (Allu Arjun) and Komali Sankaraabharanam (Amala Paul). Akanksha gets engaged in Paris with her father's henchman Shawar Ali (Shawar Ali). Incidentally, she runs into Sanju and gets to know him. Sanju is an engineer-turned-lead guitarist of a music band, and makes his living through stage and street performances.

As narrated in the diary, Komali comes from an orthodox Telugu Brahmin family. She is interested in classical music and ends up learning the violin at a musical school in Barcelona under fiddle professor, Brahma (Brahmanandam). In a twist of fate, she falls in love with Sanju and gets approval for their inter-caste marriage, from their parents in India. Komali unknowingly gets caught after a video footage that she accidentally shot while Shawar Ali kills the Spanish ambassador (Damien Mavis), in the process of money laundering. Sanju saves Komali from these henchmen, on a couple of occasions; this is where the story in the diary ends abruptly. Out of curiosity, Akanksha starts questioning Sanju about their love story and in the process ends up with disturbing facts.

On continuous asking by Akanksha, Sanju tells her that Komali is dead. It is then shown in flashback that for fixing the marriage of Sanju and Komali, their parents had come to Spain. It was at that time that Komali is kidnapped by Shawar Ali's brother (Subbaraju), and when Sanju comes to save her, Komali is murdered by Shawar Ali's brother. In a fit of rage, Sanju bashes up the whole gang, and Shawar Ali's brother goes into a coma. On hearing this, Akanksha feels pity for Sanju and falls in love with him. She also tries to bring him out of the memory of Komali but in vain.

Meanwhile, Akanksha spots Komali crossing a street. Akanksha runs to Sanju to tell him about Komali, and at that time, Sanju gets surrounded by Shawar Ali's men. Sanju, while bashing up Shawar Ali's men, tells Akanksha that it was his plan to trap her in his love to avenge the death of his and Komali's parents at the hands of Shawar Ali. It is then shown in flashback that after beating up Subbaraju, Sanju had taken Komali's body to the hospital, from where Sanju's father (Nassar) calls up the Central Minister to arrest Shawar Ali in Spain after watching the video footage. The minister then calls up Shawar Ali to finish off this trouble in order to save himself. Shawar Ali then goes the hospital and kills Sanju's and Komali's parents and shoots Sanju and Komali, and they are presumed dead. However, Sanju and Komali do not die. It is then revealed that Sanju has been waiting all this time to get his revenge, and has made Akanksha his pawn in this game and it was he who faxed their photo in order to make Shawar Ali jealous so that Shawar Ali will come himself to kill Sanju. Later, it is revealed that Komali is not dead and that they both wanted to avenge their parents' death. Sanju and Komali live happily, while Akanksha lives alone.

In September, Amala Paul was selected to play one of the female lead. First the makers chose Tapsee Pannu for another role, which was later received by Richa Gangopadhyay.[8] But Richa was officially replaced and Tapsee Pannu was selected as the second female lead in the movie.[9] Later, Catherine Tresa replaced her.[10] Chakri was the initial choice for music director but Devi Sri Prasad was roped in later.[11] The film was officially launched on 18 October 2012 at Ramanaidu Studios in Hyderabad.[12] First Look of the movie was launched on 10 March 2013.[13][14] The director winded up films and went to shot digitally using Arri Alexa cameras with ultra primelenses.[15] A theatrical trailer was released on the occasion of Allu Arjun's birthday on 8 April 2013.[16]

Devi Sri Prasad, composed the music, collaborating for the sixth time with Allu Arjun and for the first time with Puri Jagan. Pop and reggae singer Apache Indian has teamed up for Devi Sri Prasad to sing a song in this film, which is the first time Apache Indian has sung a Telugu song in his career. The audio launch took place on 29 April 2013 at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad.[17]

The film's overseas rights are owned by Blue Sky for approximately ₹30 million (US$420,000)[1] It released worldwide on 31 May 2013 with a U/A Certificate from the Censor Board.[20] The movie released in a record no. of 175+ screens in overseas by Bluesky with Digital Quality on 30 May 2013.[21]

The film was also dubbed and released in Hindi as Dangerous Khiladi 2 in 2014.

The Blu-ray disc was released on 8 October 2013 through Sri Balaji video.

Jeevi of idlebrain.com gave a rating of 3 on scale of 5 and opined that first half is entertaining. "It's a stylish film though emotions didn't work."[22] Mahesh S Koneru of 123telugu.com gave a review stating "'Iddarammayilatho' is a very stylish offering from Puri Jagan. Allu Arjun's performance, Catherine's glamour and the action sequences are assets for the film. Slow pace in the second half and the absence of traditional Puri Jagan elements like heroism and punch dialogues might hamper the overall experience."[23] Girija Narayan of Oneindia Entertainment gave a review stating "Iddarammayilatho is definitely a good movie to watch. The movie gets a lot more interesting in the second half. The climax definitely lets the viewers go home happy."[24] Sasidhar AS of The Times of India gave a review stating "Iddarammayilatho hits you like fresh air, and you instantly fall for the lead characters, refreshingly flesh-and-blood with their set of quirks, flaws and strengths. The first half does ramble a bit and takes time to build up into a riveting second half."[25] APHerald.com gave a review stating "Iddarammayilatho is one time watcher and entire credit goes to Puri Jagannadh."[26] SuperGoodMovies gave a review stating "'Iddarammayilatho' is a beautiful and stylish movie of Allu Arjun and Puri Jagannath. Definitely it is a worthy watch."[27]

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