| Tulasi | |
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 Movie Poster | |
| Directed by | Boyapati Srinu |
| Produced by | D. Suresh Babu |
| Written by | Boyapati Srinu Akula Shiva Paruchuri Brothers |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
| Cinematography | B. Balamurugan |
| Edited by | Marthand K. Venkatesh |
| Distributed by | Suresh Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 153 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Box office | ₹32 crore[1] |
Tulasi is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action drama film co-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 commercial super hit at the box office.
Plot[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- Venkatesh as Parvataneni Tulasi Ram
- Nayantara as Vasundhara Tulasi Ram
- Master Atul as Harsha, Tulasi & Vasundhara’s son
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Veeranna, a gangster
- Rahul Dev as Basavaraju
- Sudha as Lakshmi, Tulasi's mother
- Vijaykumar as Parvataneni Dasaratha Ramayya, Tulasi's father
- Geetha as Janaki, Vasundhara's mother
- Sivaji as Harsha, Vasundhara's brother
- Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Venkatachalam
- Chandra Mohan as Chandram, Vasundhara's father
- Brahmanandam as Appalaraju/Pappalaraju
- Ali as Apartment Owner
- Satyam Rajesh as Tulasi's friend
- Uttej as Tulasi's friend
- Ramya Krishnan as Dr. Surekha
- Nadhiya as Prabhavati, Tulasi's aunt
- Ahuti Prasad as Raghavendra, Tulasi's uncle
- Subbaraju as Ravi, Veeranna's elder son
- Riyaz Khan as Shankar, Veeranna's younger son
- Jhansi as Kokapet aunty
- Jaya Prakash Reddy as Chandrayya, Ramayya's rival
- Raghu Babu as Raghu
- Ravi Babu as Prasad
- Tanikella Bharani as Kantepudi Srinivasa Rao
- Naramalli Sivaprasad
- Narsing Yadav as Narasing, Veeranna's henchman
- Banerjee as Banerjee
- Bandla Ganesh
- Sameer
- Chitram Srinu
- Dr. Siva Prasad
- Siva Parvathi
- Shravan
- Tarzan
- Sravani
- Devisri
- Saraswatamma
- Bill Bitra
- Shriya Saran in a guest appearance in the song "Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini"
Soundtrack[edit | edit source]
| Tulasi | ||||
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| Soundtrack album by | ||||
| Released | 21 September 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 26:38 | |||
| Language | Telugu | |||
| Label | Aditya Music | |||
| Producer | Devi Sri Prasad | |||
| Devi Sri Prasad chronology | ||||
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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.[2]
| Track listing | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Artist(s) | Length | ||||||
| 1. | "Mia Mia" | Naveen Madhav, Mamta Mohandas | 4:32 | ||||||
| 2. | "Vennelintha Vedigaa" | Venu Srirangam, Sunitha | 4:17 | ||||||
| 3. | "Thula Thula Thulasi" | Priya Hemesh, Tippu | 4:37 | ||||||
| 4. | "Hello Boys" | Devi Sri Prasad | 3:48 | ||||||
| 5. | "Nee Kallathoti" | Sagar, Chitra | 3:56 | ||||||
| 6. | "Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini (Raja Raja Bobbili Raja)" | Malgudi Subha, Devi Sri Prasad | 5:10 | ||||||
| 7. | "Cheekatanthaa Vennelaaye Chudaraa (Unreleased/Theatrical Version)" | Venu Srirangam | 1:52 | ||||||
Total length: |
26:38 | ||||||||
Release and reception[edit | edit source]
The film released with 290 prints worldwide.[3] It was later dubbed and released in Tamil and Malayalam with the same title and in Hindi as The Real Man Hero.
Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film 3 out of 5.[4] Radhika Rajamani of Rediff.com rated the film 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote, "Thulasi is a hardcore commercial film. One may find similarities with other films too while watching it".[5]
Box office[edit | edit source]
The film has undergone the theatrical business of 12 crores and grossed 32 crores.[1]
Awards[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chanti to Venky mama". telugu.asianetnews.com.
- ↑ "Audio launch - Tulasi". idlebrain.com. 22 September 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ↑ "Tulasi censored and ready!". Telugu cinema. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2007.
- ↑ "Tulasi - Telugu & Tamil cinema Review - Venkatesh & Nayana Tara". www.idlebrain.com.
- ↑ Rajamani, Radhika. "Thulasi: A hardcore affair". Rediff.
- ↑ "నంది అవార్డు విజేతల పరంపర (1964 - 2008)" [A series of Nandi Award Winners (1964 - 2008)] (PDF). Information & Public Relations of Andhra Pradesh. Retrieved 31 December 2020.(in Telugu)