Revisiting Narasimha Naidu (2001): Review + Interesting Facts

Credits
Cast: Balayya, K Vishwanath, Simran, Asha Saini & Preethi Jingyani
Music: Mani Sharma
Story, Screenplay: Chinni Krishna
Cinematography: VSR Swamy
Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Art Direction: Brahma Kadali
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Direction: B Gopal
Producer: Medikonda Murali Krishna
Theatrical Release Date: 11th January 2001
Interesting Facts

• In 2000, 4th collaboration between Balayya nd B Gopal got fixed. It was B Gopal’s 25th movie, started with a powerful cop story and shooting started and already scored 3 super hits with Balayya and fans did hungama and chuttesaru and told him have to give us another industry hit

• Realizing that we might not be able to score an industry hit with the cop story, he told Balayya the same and then Balayya after thinking it over said ok let’s do another story and then B Gopal called Chinni Krishna who had been in touch with for last 2 years and told him to narrate the story to Balayya

• In Punjab, there’s a rule that someone from every family must go to the army, then he readied the concept. Faction backdrop and fictionists have to save their people and ready an army with people from their family

• Balayya liked it and then they told it to Parachuri Gopala Krishna, he suggested some corrections and said it’s superb. Then they called Posani garu and the police story that got started Posani wrote that story so they told him to keep the advance.

• Main heroine Soundarya, and then 2nd heroine Simran. Then after a week, Soundarya couldn’t do it and informed them and then Simran become main heroine and then Thammudu movie heroine Preeti Jhangiani became 2nd heroine. Finally shooting started and title was confirmed as Narasimha Baidu

• Araku valley, Ooty, Hyderabad, and Vijayanagaram movie was filmed. For the songs they went to Canada and Tokyo. In Araku, they put a 120 foot bridge which costed 60 lakhs.

• Train and sumo chasing scenes with 100 fighters was shot over 8 days and 30 sumos were destroyed just for this scene itself

• Parachuri Brothers wrote a version of each dialogues in 100 different ways, dialogues have to so good for Balayya, they wrote a dialogue for Sr NTR katthulu tho kadu raa, kanti choopu tho champestha they used it in this

• Finally 6 crores budget filming finished but the length was too long, had to trim 30 minutes. Chinni Krishna, B Gopal, Parachuri Brothers sat and discussed. 2nd half turned out super. So they decided to trim the 1st half and as a result the interval scene got changed. Original interval scene is when Balayya gets down from the train and goons get sacred of him but due to trimming, it became Simran marriage scene is interval.

• Finally January 11th, 2001 amidst heavy competition in huge Sankranthi and clash of titans, movie finally released and due to the combo fans racha racha chesaru. B, C centers lo jathara vundedi and finally it became Sankranthi winner.

• Mass audience ki viprathamga ekkesindi ee movie and for 50 days straight anywhere you look, housefull boards. Simran glamour and acting, songs, fights, B Goal taking, dialogues, everything worked and specifically Mani Sharma BGM pranam posaru.

• With he movie becoming a sensational hit, Balakrishna image doubled, Simran became no 1 heroine, Chinni Krishna became star hero, B Gopal got so many offers and producers were trying to give him advance

• Box office details box office toofan: First movie to gross 30 crores and collect 20 crores share in Telugu cinema history

• In every center all time records, in a week 101 shows all time record

• Hyderabad Devi theater 53 days and 212 shows all houseful all time records

• 100 days in 105 centers first South Indian movie to run in more than 100 centers for 100 days

• Movie created so many records that Tamil newspaper Dinakaran wrote an article about it.

• Remade in Tamil as Ezhumalai with Arjun and couldn’t repeat the success as Balayya performance was so good people couldn’t imagine anyone else in the role.