Madatha Kaja

<p>Kalyan ( ) is a happy going guy who works as police informer in Vizag. He reports to a local cop, Sai Kumar ( ). He falls for Swapna ( ) and it is love at first sight for him. Swapna is the daughter of KP ( ). Kalyan’s friend Kishore ( ) and cop Sai Kumar helps him in gaining Sneha’s love. Meanwhile, the cops ask Kalyan to come to Hyderabad to gather information on two mafia leaders JP ( ) and KP (Ahuti Prasad). KP takes care of international Don Nanda’s ( ) illegal business along with JP. JP and KP always fight with each other which bring losses to Nanda. To make them unite Nanda sketches a plan. He passes an order JP’s son should marry KP’s daughter. While in the process of helping the Police with the investigation, he then finds out that Swapna is the daughter of KP. With her help, Kalyan is on a mission to get all the information he can on these criminals and their mafia boss in Bangkok, Nanda. Meanwhile, Swapna’s marriage is fixed to JP’s son Ajay ( ). He starts playing mind games with the mafia leaders. Kalyan’s battle against all these odds will eventually help him bring Nanda to the justice and also win over his love. This film was the debut film for Seetaramaraju Dantuluri as a director. He worked for many years in the direction department for many films under prominent film directors. Although the director planned to make the film few years back with , due to the actor’s previous commitments the film was postponed. Director worked on the script for almost 2 years before starting the shooting in 2011. The film was delayed due to the Telugu film strike of 2011. This was Allari Naresh’s third release in the year. Sneha Ullal was cast for the role of Swapna, daughter of a mafia leader. Being a comedy film, it features most of the Telugu comedians like , , , Ahuti Prasad, , , , and Chalapathi Rao. Writer turned director Satish Vegesna assisted Seetaramaraju with the screenplay and dialogues. Shooting of the film began in April 2011 and was completed in August 2011 and the film was released in September 2011. Shooting was predominantly done in Vizag and Bangkok. Audio release of the film was held on 16 September 2011 in Visakhapatnam. The audio was released and distributed by . The music of this film was composed by Sri Vasant. The audio was well received. Bhaskarabhatla Ravikumar penned 2 songs while and Surendra Krishna penned one song each. The film was released on 29 September 2011. The film was received with mixed to negative reviews. Suresh Kavirayani of Times of India gave a decent 2.5 of 5 rating for the film and said the film was a time-pass watch. Mahesh from 123 Telugu gave a 2.75 of 5 rating for the film and commented that although Madatha Kaja had few decent laughs but there was a lot going against the film than in favour of it. The film fared relatively well at the box-office despite the negative reviews and was declared an average grosser.</p>