Pataas

<p>Kalyan Sinha is a corrupt officer who gets himself transferred to as and misuses his power to gain monetary benefits in unorthodox methods. During this process, he also encourages a local named GK, who has become a headache to Murali Krishna, the of . Kalyan happens to be Murali’s son, who is angry at the latter as his supposed negligence killed his mother and newborn sister, though Murali actually left his wife in the hospital to save several families in a riot. Unaware of this, Kalyan left Murali and joined an orphanage where he became an IPS officer to seek revenge on his father. During his life in Hyderabad, Kalyan also meets two women: Mahathi, a journalist working for and Kavya, a philanthropist who works in a coffee shop. He loves Mahathi and expects her to reciprocate the same only to be rejected by her because of his corrupt nature. Kavya is killed by GK’s brother Nani when she tries to save a techie from being assaulted by him near . Kalyan considered Kavya as his sister and her death enrages him, so he turns against GK. GK wants to make Nani a politician while Kalyan challenges GK to save Nani from getting arrested. GK manages to kidnap the techie, but with the help of a transgender, who is the main witness, Kalyan arrests Nani with a . He also challenges GK to bring Nani out of prison within 3 days. Murali and Kalyan are united, and Kalyan’s marriage with Mahathi is approved. On the third day, GK’s men kidnap the transgender and Mahathi. Murali, along with his team, go to the spot to save the witness. Kalyan manages to save Mahathi but is very far from the spot but is able to save her. Meanwhile, Murali and his team, along with the transgender, are killed by GK and his partners. Nani and his friends are released from jail, and Kalyan plans to kill all of them with the help of an old turned actor Subhash. Kalyan and his team assault one of GK’s partners and his son and throw them on a railway track. They die with a fast train passing over them. The other partner and his son are intoxicated, and their car is made to collide with a static truck. Subhash enters the spot, disguised as a taxi driver, and presents himself as a witness to that accident, citing drunk being the reason behind those two deaths. GK’s two key henchmen are killed by transgender people, and police, with the help of Subhash, make media believe that they were killed in a stampede caused by fans of actress upon learning that she is inaugurating a mall. Subhash faces the media in disguise as a fan of Tamannaah and reconfirms the same. GK plans to escape to Delhi along with Nani to gain his position as an MP again with high security but is trapped by Ramesh, the head of who failed to arrest GK in the past in an illegal . They reach the same spot where Murali was killed, and after being severely assaulted by Kalyan, the duo is made to sit in a car on which petrol is poured. The police shoot the car, and the duo dies in a blast. Subhash enters the spot as himself, who tells the media that he visited this place for location-scouting, and the duo died when they smoked in a area, triggering an explosion. Anil Ravipudi worked with in the latter’s directorial debut (2011) as a writer and wrote this film’s script. He later approached Nandamuri Kalyan Ram through a friend. Kalyan Ram liked the script and wanted to produce the film with other actor. However Ravipudi wanted Kalyan Ram to play the lead role which he accepted. Kalyan Ram was busy with the production of (2013) and Ravipudi was constantly in touch with him. After completing with the writing, he again approached Kalyan Ram and both began working on the film. Reports of Ravipudi making his directorial debut by collaborating with Kalyan Ram emerged in late March 2014 and Pre-production work was in progress. The film was launched on 9 May 2014 at and was titled as . The filming of (2015) was halted as its basic plot resembled this film’s storyline. Ravipudi said in an interview that the film runs in the pattern of (2010) with Telugu nativity and is about a corrupt cop who changes for the good, adding that it would be an image makeover for Kalyan Ram. After , was approached to play the lead role in the film, but he denied the offer as the police officer role required him to have short hair. was seen as a police officer in the film. Shruti Sodhi was cast as the female lead in late May 2014 marking her debut in Telugu cinema. She was approached by Ravipudi after watching her pictures and was seen as a journalist in the film which was her job before entering films. She described her character as a “morally, ethically correct and a strong worded girl”, adding that the film is a hero-centric film. was rumored to make a in the remix of the song which remained unconfirmed. was cast to play the role of and was cast for a supporting role. A spoof was performed by the latter on the former’s famous dialogue from the film (1996). Television anchor Jhansi made a comeback with this film after a brief hiatus. Comedian was cast for a supporting role who died on the day of the film’s release. began on 10 May 2014 at . By late October 2014, 90% of the filming was complete and an action sequence featuring Kalyan Ram and others were shot at . Shruti Sodhi almost completed filming for her part by late October 2014. The Remixed version of the song was shot on Kalyan Ram and Shruti Sodhi at Hyderabad in early November 2014. After completing the shoot of a couple of songs, the filming ended on 22 November 2014. The same was confirmed by Kalyan Ram before the commencement of phase. Ravipudi revealed in an interview that the film was shot in seventy working days and added that he directed the film without a scene paper on hand and knew every dialogue of each character and scene in hand. Despite being a trained dancer, Shruti Sodhi found the Telugu style of dancing difficult and said, “The choreographers’ movements are so fluid, the rhythm is amazing, they were a bit tough as it was the folk style. Also Telugu is not my language; so putting on right expressions for the language was tough” in an interview. Sai Karthik composed the film’s music and background score. The soundtrack consists of five songs, four originally composed by Karthk and written by , B. Subbaraya Sarma and Tadaila Bapu apart from the remixed version of the song composed by and written by for the film (1992). Karthik initially wanted to retain the background music of the original in the remixed version but later modified them to a small extent. Shreyas Music acquired the audio rights in early December 2014. The official track list was unveiled on 4 February 2014. The soundtrack was supposed to be launched on 7 December 2014. But it was postponed due to the death of Kalyan Ram’s brother Nandamuri Janakiram in an accident. The release date was announced as 1 January 2015 in late December 2014. Actors and along with directors and among others attended the audio launch event held at Hyderabad along with the film’s cast and crew. unveiled the soundtrack discs and received the first copy. A case was filed against the movie and the film makers for the inappropriate usage of the national in the title logo. The film received positive reviews from critics. Timesofindia.indiatimes.com rated it 3.5 out of 5 and stated that the film is a ‘vindhu bhojanam’ in the truest sense. earned on its opening day. By the end of its theatrical run, the film grossed and was successful at the box office. Kannada remake rights of the film were bought by S. V. Babu while R. B. Choudry has bought the rights for Tamil. The film was remade in Tamil as with Raghava Lawrence and in Kannada as with Ganesh.</p>