Veera (2011 film)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Veera
| image = Veera 2011 poster hd.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[Ramesh Varma]]
| producer = Ganesh Indukuri
| writer = [[Paruchuri Brothers]]
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on = 
| starring = {{unbulleted list|[[Ravi Teja]]|[[Kajal Aggarwal]]|[[Taapsee Pannu]]|[[Shaam (actor)|Shaam]]}}
| music = [[S. Thaman]]
| cinematography = [[Chota K. Naidu]]
| editing = [[Marthand K. Venkatesh]]
| studio = Sanvi Productions
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2011|5|20|}}
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = 
| gross = 
}}
'''''Veera''''' is a 2011 [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[action comedy film]], produced by Ganesh Indukuri under Sanvi Productions banner and directed by [[Ramesh Varma]]. It stars [[Ravi Teja]], [[Kajal Aggarwal]], [[Taapsee Pannu]], with music composed by [[S. Thaman]]. Cinematography was performed by [[Chota K. Naidu]] and the film was released on 20 May 2011. The film had completed 50 days in 60 centres<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chitramala.in/news/veera-50-days-in-60-centers-126149.html|title=Veera 50 days in 60 centers|publisher=Chitramala.com|access-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref> and a 100-day run at the box office according to [[Zee 24 Gantalu]].<ref name="youtube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW4C_oriRPM|title=Veera movie completed 100 days|publisher=YouTube|access-date=26 Aug 2011}}</ref> The film was released in Tamil as ''Veeraiyaah'', in Hindi as ''The Great Veera'' in 2012 and also in Malayalam as ''Veera''<ref>https://cinemasite.in/movie_354.xhtml</ref> in 2017 it was also in Bhojpuri as ''Veera''.

==Plot==
Shyam Prasad ([[Shaam (actor)|Shaam]]) is an honest ACP who comes into conflict with the local don, Dhanraj ([[Rahul Dev]]). The goons kill Shyam's son,Moksha, and Shyam does not reveal this to his family but fears the villains may kill his daughter also. Dhanraj threatens Shyam's family so the police department arranges for an officer to provide security for them. Deva ([[Ravi Teja]]) arrives and saves Shyam from Dhanraj's men and introduces himself as the security officer. Shyam's family still believes that their son is in the boarding school and waits for his call a Sunday, but instead, they are told their son went on an excursion. Shyam gets tensed and reveals everything to Deva. When he goes to drop Anjali (ACP's daughter) to school with Tiger ([[Brahmanandam]]) with whom he shares his room, on their way he met Aiki ([[Taapsee Pannu]]),who falls for him.

Shyaam's wife Sathya ([[Sridevi Vijayakumar]]) dislikes Deva and doesn't want him involved with her family while Aiki falls in love with him. Shyaam learns that Deva is not the security officer appointed by the police department. It is revealed that Deva is Veera, a person who is like God to the whole village, he actually kills security officer Deva (who works for the villain) and replaces him. Sathya is his step sister. In the pre-interval scene, Dhanraj comes to kill Shyam and his family, and Veera bashes them badly and protects his sister's family. But, suddenly there appears a mystery man ([[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]]) who introduces thyself as a great enemy of Veera, and shoots him. Veera loses his consciousness.

A police officer sends Veera to Shyam's family. After the interval, the flashback begins. Veera was a powerful and kind-hearted landlord of a village. Every villager loved him very much. He lived with his younger brother, friends and a beautiful wife Chitra ([[Kajal Agarwal]]). But there is another landlord Peddarayudu (Pradeep Rawat) who wants to vacate the whole village to build a factory. But, Veera opposes him. Pedda tries to torture on the villagers, and Veera beats him badly. Veera's younger brother marries the daughter of the officer who is the one who later sends Veera to Shyam's family. In that shame, the wife of Pedda suicides. Pedda becomes angry and kills the whole family of Veera, including his wife Chitti, when Veera is not present. Knowing this, Veera kills all of Pedda's henchmen. Pedda was supposed to die in an explosion, but he survives. Veera doesn't know that Pedda survived. Sathya blames Veera for the death of their family. That's why Sathya disliked Veera. Later, Veera comes to the city to save his step-sister's family. The flashback episode ends.
Then the climax starts. Pedda challenges Veera and after a long fight between the two, Veera kills Pedda and takes his revenge. Then Aiki proposes to Veera and he agrees. And, he unites with his sister happily.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Ravi Teja]] as Veera / Deva
* [[Kajal Aggarwal]] as Chitra "Chitti"; Veera/Deva's wife
* [[Taapsee Pannu]] as Aiki
* [[Shaam (actor)|Shaam]] as Shyam Prasad
* [[Sridevi Vijayakumar]] as Satya
* [[Pradeep Rawat (actor)|Pradeep Rawat]] as Pedda Rayudu
* [[Nassar (actor)|Nassar]] as Veera's father
* [[Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao]] as Shyam's father
* [[Sudha (Telugu actress)|Sudha]] as Shyam's mother
* [[Telangana Shakuntala]] as Chitti's grandmother
* [[Roja (actress)|Roja]] as Satya's mother
* [[Annapoorna (actress)|Annapoorna]] as Satya's grandmother
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Tiger
* [[Ali (actor)|Ali]] as Pataas
* [[Rahul Dev]] as Dhanraj
* [[Nagababu]] as DGP K. Vijaykumar
* [[Ajay (actor)|Ajay]] as Deva
* [[Krishnudu]] as Anji
* [[Praveen (actor)|Praveen]] as Veera's friend
* Divya Vani as Pedda Rayudu's wife
* [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]] as Balaji
* [[Prabhakar (Telugu actor)|Prabhakar]]
* [[Vijayakumar (Tamil actor)|Vijayakumar]]
* [[Dharmavarapu Subramanyam]]
* [[Chalapathi Rao]]
* [[Subbaraju]]
* [[Pragathi (actress)|Pragathi]]
* [[Hema (actress)|Hema]]
* [[Supreeth]] as Pedda Rayudu's Henchman
* [[Srinivasa Reddy]]
* [[Fish Venkat]]
{{colend}}

==Production==
In January 2010, the first look of ''Veera'' was released by Sanvi Productions, the producers of the film, with [[Ravi Teja]] in the lead role and Ramesh Varma as the director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/telugu/article/53831.html |title=Ravi Teja's 'Veera' to go on sets - Telugu Movie News |publisher=IndiaGlitz |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> Furthermore, a leading technical crew was announced with [[Devi Sri Prasad]] as music composer, [[Chota K. Naidu]] as cinematographer, [[Marthand K. Venkatesh]] as editor and the Parachuri brothers as writers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/news-archives/january-2010/ramesh-varmas-veera-with-raviteja-250110.html |title=Ramesh Varma's Veera With Bellamkonda Suresh and Ramesh Verma |publisher=CineGoer.com |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> The casting process began in June 2010 with [[Anushka Shetty]] was signed on to play the lead female role with [[Taapsee Pannu]] selected to play a supporting role in the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supergoodmovies.com/6434/tollywood/Taapsi-and-Ravi-Teja-in-Veera-News-Details|title=Taapsi and Ravi Teja in 'Veera' film|publisher=Supergoodmovies.com|access-date=28 Jun 2010}}</ref> Anushka walked out of the project before filming began and was subsequently replaced by [[Kajal Aggarwal]], whilst Devi Sri Prasad was also replaced by [[Thaman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/Kajal-replaces-Anushka-imagegallery-tollywood-km5rFkbjehg.html?html=5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326192410/http://www.sify.com/movies/Kajal-replaces-Anushka-imagegallery-tollywood-km5rFkbjehg.html?html=5 |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 March 2014 |title=Kajal replaces Anushka |publisher=Sify.com |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> [[Shaam (actor)|Shaam]] and [[Sridevi Vijayakumar]] were also signed on to play a supporting roles in the film.

After further delays, the film began its first schedule in November 2010 at Madhapur Art Gallery in [[Hyderabad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/ravi-teja-s-veera-shoot-commences-news-telugu-klzpPSfddde.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128112727/http://sify.com/movies/ravi-teja-s-veera-shoot-commences-news-telugu-klzpPSfddde.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 November 2010 |title=Ravi Teja's Veera shoot commences |publisher=Sify.com |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> The filming was wrapped in May 2011 at [[Switzerland]] after shooting couple of romantic songs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/others/news-interviews/Ravi-Teja-and-Kajal-fly-to-Switzerland/articleshow/8141595.cms"Ravi|title=Teja and Kajal fly to Switzerland"}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
{{Infobox album
| name = Veera
| type = Soundtrack
| artist = [[S. Thaman]]
| cover =
| border = yes
| alt =
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|2011|5|7}}
| recorded = 2011
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length = 31:01
| language = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| label = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer = S. Thaman
| prev_title = [[Sabash Sariyana Potti]]
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = [[Kanchana (2011 film)|Kanchana]]
| next_year = 2011
}}

The audio release of the film was done in a very simple manner. Music director [[S. Thaman]], director [[Gopichand Malineni]], [[Aditya Music]] CEO Dayanand,B.A. Raju were present at the function. [[S. Thaman]] released the CD and handed it over to [[Gopichand Malineni]].

[[S. Thaman]] said that since the entire unit is present at Switzerland as of now busy with the shooting he was organising this audio release and songs in the movie are according to the body language of [[Ravi Teja]] and also informed that NTR old classic Mavilla thota kada was remixed in the movie according to the requirement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supergoodmovies.com/17494/tollywood/veera-audio-release-news-details|title=Veera Audio Release|publisher=Supergoodmovies.com|access-date=7 May 2011}}</ref>

The movie has celebrated its triple platinum disc function in Taj Deccan. [[Ravi Teja]], [[Brahmanandam]], [[Sridevi Vijaykumar]], [[Ali (actor)|Ali]], Chota K Naidu, Ram-Lakshman, Dayanand, [[S. Thaman]] and others were present at the function.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.supergoodmovies.com/18615/tollywood/veera-triple-platinum-disc-function-news-details|title=Veera Triple Platinum disc Function|publisher=Supergoodmovies.com|access-date=26 May 2011}}</ref>

{{tracklist
| headline = Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 31:01
| lyrics_credit = yes
| title1 = Ekkadekkada
| lyrics1 = [[Ramajogayya Sastry]]
| extra1 = [[Ramya NSK]]
| length1 = 4:29
| title2 = O Meri Bhavri
| lyrics2 = Rahman
| extra2 = [[S. Thaman]] & Bindu Mahima
| length2 = 4:42
| title3 = Chitti Chitti
| lyrics3 = Bhaskarabhatla
| extra3 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]], [[Geetha Madhuri]]
| length3 = 4:30
| title4 = Chinnari (Montage Bit)
| lyrics4 = Sira Sri
| extra4 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]]
| length4 = 2:36
| title5 = Hossanam
| lyrics5 = Bhaskarabhatla
| extra5 = [[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]] (Uncredited), [[Roshini (singer)|Roshini]], [[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]]
| length5 = 5:28
| title6 = Mavilla (Remix)
| lyrics6 = Bandaru Danayya Kavi
| extra6 = Ganga, [[Khushi Murali]]
| length6 = 4:55
| title7 = Veera Veera
| lyrics7 = Abhinaya Srinivas
| extra7 = [[Ranina Reddy]], M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Chorus
| length7 = 4:18
}}

==Release==
''[[The Times of India]]'' gave the film a rating of two out of five stars and wrote that "After testing new waters previously, in “Veera” we see actor Ravi Teja treading the tried-and-tested formula film path yet again. “Veera” will only appeal to the front bench fans of Ravi Teja".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movie-reviews/veera/movie-review/8490503.cms|title=Veera Movie Review {2/5}: Critic Review of Veera by Times of India|work=The Times of India}}</ref> ''[[Rediff]]'' wrote:"tedious watch".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/south-review-veera/20110520.htm |title=Review: Veera is a tedious watch - Rediff.com Movies |work=Rediff.com |date=20 May 2011 |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref> ''[[Sify]]'' wrote: "Veera is only fine in parts wherever Ravi Teja is shown in a mass dimension. There is unnecessary violence and the screenplay is hackneyed. Director Ramesh Varma was purely focusing to showcase Ravi Teja on the lines of a superhero but he failed miserably".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/review-ravi-teja-s-veera-review-telugu-14970288.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126034555/http://www.sify.com/movies/review-ravi-teja-s-veera-review-telugu-14970288.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 November 2013 |title=Movie Review:Review: Ravi Teja's Veera |publisher=Sify.com |access-date=4 August 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|1783411}}
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[[Category:2010s Telugu-language films]]
[[Category:2011 films]]
[[Category:Indian films about revenge]]
[[Category:Indian action films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Masala films]]
[[Category:Films scored by S. Thaman]]
[[Category:Foreign films shot in Switzerland]]
[[Category:Films shot in Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:2011 action films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Ramesh Varma]]

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