Mr. Nookayya

<p>Nookayya ( ), who calls himself Nokia, is an expert cell phone thief. He has a good heart, though, and together with his friends Nampally ( ) and Charger ( ), he takes care of orphans and abandoned children. He is deeply in love with Shilpa ( ), who is a waitress in a pub. Shilpa wants Nokia to settle down in life with a nice car, much cash, and a house in order to marry. A desperate Nokia starts hunting for ways to achieve these things in life. On a separate note, Anu ( ), a bank manager, and Kiran ( ) are a newly married couple. On a trip to Bangalore, Kiran is kidnapped by a gang headed by Shajahan Bismil ( ), and they demand a ransom of two crores. Anu then takes the demanded ransom amount from the bank in secret and escapes. In a curious twist of fate, the paths of both Nokia and Anu cross, and the money is taken by Charger, which is revealed in the end. In the meantime, Shilpa leaves Nookayya and dates another man. Nokia and Anu team up to save themselves and Kiran. After many twists, dead ends and chases, it is revealed that Kiran planned his kidnap with Shajahan for the sake of money. In fact, he had cheated Anu by pretending to be in love and marrying her. In the climax, Nokia is beaten badly by Kiran, who wants to kill Anu. In a fit of anger, Nokia kills Kiran, Shajahan, and their henchmen. It is shown that Anu returns the money in the bank and becomes a good friend of Nokia, but she also gives the proposal for him to marry her. In February 2011, signed a new film with Anil Krishna, who had directed the films and , and to be produced by D. S. Rao, who had made several films including and . On 7 March 2011, the film was launched with a ceremonial Puja ceremony, with who wrote the dialogues for the film, handing over the bounded script to the director. On 21 March 2011, the was held at in and shooting began. The chief guest tapped the while Ravindranath switched on the camera. On 25 April 2011, the title was registered for the film at the Film Chamber. Manoj Manchu claimed that the director and producer had planned for 75 days film shooting, but since they were following a bound script, the shooting schedule was reduced to 45 days. Producer of the film, D.S. Rao announced that the title of the film was changed from Mr. Nokia to Mr. Nookayya due to undisclosed reasons. A reason for this is that the Finnish multinational communications corporation Communications contacted the producers concerning the use of their registered trademark in the film’s name and got a court order that forbade the producers to use the title Nokia or identical or deceptively similar title. was first insistent on being signed as the female lead. of fame was reported to play another lead female character. The producer roped in , who shot to fame after the release of . According to sources, the producers dropped her on the third day of the shoot, since she “threw starry tantrums”. The soundtrack of the film was composed by , which happens to be his second project after . During the launch of the film, Yuvan Shankar had already tuned two of the songs, while the lead actor Manoj Manchu has also written lyrics for one of the songs. The album consists of seven songs from Yuvan Shankar Raja’s earlier Tamil releases, with varied orchestrations. The soundtrack album was released on 19 January 2012 under its tentative title at Rock Heights, , in , with several prominent film personalities present.</p>