Bejawada

Bejawada is a Telugu film directed by Vivek Krishna and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film features Naga Chaitanya and Amala Paul in the lead roles. Bezawada movie released and received mixed to negative reviews.

Plot

Kali Prasad aka Kali (Prabhu) is the man of masses in Bezawada.His group has a strong hold on temple city.Vijay Krishna (Mukul Dev) is right hand to Kali. On the flip side Kali’s brother Shankar Prasad aka Shankar (Abhimanyu Singh) does not like the supremacy of Vijay Krishna. Due to this personal grudge, Shankar plays spoil sport of brutally killing his brother Kali and then spreads the rumor in Bezawada about Vijay Krishna as man behind this murder.With the help of politician Ramana (Kota Srinivas Rao), even Shankar plans to become a politician but fails due to Vijay Krishna’s authority on Student and Labor Unions. Vijay Krishna has two brothers Jaya Krishna (Ajay) and Siva Krishna (Naga Chaitanya). Slowly and steadily, Shankar successfully assassinates Vijay Krishna for building his own identity. It is time now for cool, daring and dashing Siva Krishna to enter the scene for completing revenge saga. How did love life of Siva Krishna with college girl friend Geeta (Amala Paul), daughter of top brass policeman Adi Vishnu (Ahuti Prasad) is affected in this retaliation process forms another angle in story.

Production

Ram Gopal Varma announced that he was set to direct a Telugu film titled Bejawada Rowdilu in a press note in September 2010, which would revolve around the rowdy wars of Vijayawada also known as bejawada.  The title started a controversy from vijayawada locales who felt that title wrongly defamed their city, so Varma in August 2011 announced that the film would simply be known as Bejawada. The film was officially launched on May 12, 2011 with Ram Gopal Varma's protege, Vivek Krishna, announced as the director. The team held a photo shoot and filmed for two days in Vijayawada with Preetika Rao, before removing her from the project with the producer citing that she looked older than the lead actor, Naga Chaitanya. She was subsequently replaced by Amala Paul.

Boxoffice

It is estimated that the film as collected 15 crore (US$2.99 million) as per 50 days the satilliete rights were sold for 1 crore (US$199,500), the film has collected a amount of 4 crore (US$798,000) on its releasing day.hence, the movie is flop at the critics and a average as box office as per collections of amount of 15 crore (US$2.99 million).Gemini TV bought satelitte rights for 3 crore (US$598,500) budget = 12 crore (US$2.39 million) Box office = 5 crore (US$1 million)