Sarileru Neekevaru

<p>Bharathi is a medical college professor. She lives with her elder daughter-in-law, daughter and an adoptive daughter. Her elder son was an army martyr while her younger son is a in the . She calls her son to come for the arrangements for her daughter’s wedding. The scene then shifts to Ajay Krishna who is a in the where Bharathi’s son who is also named Ajay is also a member of the regiment. During a shootout in a rescue operation, Ajay gets severely injured. Murali Sharma sends Ajay Krishna and his colleague Captain Prasad to inform the news to Ajay’s family after the wedding thus ensuring that the preparations are not disturbed. On the way to Kurnool on a train, they come across Samskruthi, who is an irritating-comic girl. Samskruthi sees Ajay Krishna and falls in love with him. She tries to impress Ajay unusually but to no avail. Once Ajay Krishna and Prasad reach Kurnool, they find Bharathi’s house empty. Eventually, they find that she and her family went into hiding to escape from Nagendra. When they are caught by Nagendra’s men who threaten to kill them, Ajay Krishna arrives and battles with the men with a warning that he would deal with Nagendra in the same way. Nagendra’s main henchman narrates this to Nagendra. Meanwhile, Bharathi reveals to Ajay Krishna that she had lodged a case against Nagendra for planning the murder of her cousin, which was covered up as a suicide. When Nagendra threatens her to withdraw the case, she stood her ground. Consequently, Bharathi is suspended from the college on the allegation of leaking the and her daughter’s marriage gets called off. Ajay Krishna, along with Bharathi leaves for Nagendra’s house and challenges him, stating that he will change him into a responsible citizen, by making him surrender after fetching all the evidence. Ajay Krishna re-arranges Bharathi’s daughter’s marriage with the same person after convincing her in-laws. He also rescues a government officer Ramakrishna from goons in a forest and later learns from him that Nagendra has been involved in a scam, who along with a who is Bharathi’s cousin, Ramakrishna tried to uncover the scam with the help of a techie, who works in Nagendra Technologies (which is founded by Nagendra and is running his scams). Nagendra found out about this and got the bank officer and the techie killed while getting Ramakrishna held captive in a forest. Ajay Krishna then confronts Nagendra’s party members and explains about the scams committed by numerous politicians and threatens the party members from protecting Nagendra who the party members eventually throw him out of the party. Finally, Bharathi’s daughter’s marriage takes place while Ajay is declared dead, and Ajay Krishna informs the family after the wedding. After performing his last rites, Ajay Krishna and Prasad decide to return to , while Ajay Krishna also accepts Samskruthi’s proposal in between. Despite gathering the evidence, Ajay Krishna spares Nagendra from being jailed as he might use sympathy to leave prison and resume his corrupt activities. Instead, Ajay Krishna tells Nagendra that he is appointed to the Indian Army so that he will be disciplined and lead an honest life thereafter. Three months later, Nagendra is a reformed leader who believes in discipline and respects everyone, and Ajay Krishna marrying Samskruthi. In mid February 2019, it was reported that , who was working on (2019) at the time, was reported to collaborate with for his next film after . A few days later, sources claimed that the venture would be produced by and under . Filming to reportedly commence in May that year, the team were finalizing cast and crew and scouting for filming locations the same month. On 31 May, Dil Raju and Ramabrahmam Sunkara of Sri Venkateswara Creations and Mahesh Babu himself of GMB Entertainment publicly announced the venture, as they were producing it. The title of the film and release date were revealed the same day. In early March 2019, was reported to be in consideration for the lead actress role. Few days later, was reported to have been approached for the role. On 31 May that year, Mandanna and were announced being part of the cast. The former was signed to pair opposite Babu for the first time, while the latter was signed for crucial role, marking her comeback to film industry after 13 years. was signed in for a party song. The film also marks the comeback of and into movies after many years. The first schedule was shot in from 5 to 20 July 2019. For the second schedule, a replica set of was constructed in with an estimated cost of ₹4 crore On 8 November 2019, with the schedule the talkie part of the film wrapped up. The music is composed by , collaborating with for the fifth time and with for the second time after . The lyrics were written by Devi Sri Prasad, and . Composer Devi worked with a special orchestra in for recording the film’s soundtrack and score. The makers announced that the film features five songs and all of them will be released as singles, on five consecutive Mondays of the December month. The hashtag #MassMBMondays was trending on social media. The first single track titled “Mind Block” was released on 2 December 2019, which was sung by with singing the rap versions. Devi recorded this song while he was recording two other songs for his upcoming two films, on the same day. The second single track “Suryudivo Chandrudivo” was released on 9 December 2019, which was rendered by . The song resembles numbers, like “Idhe Kadha Nee Katha” from (2019) and “Srimanthuda” from (2015), which were composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The lyrics talk about the protagonist’s kindness and greatness. The third single track “He’s So Cute” was released on 16 December 2019, which was sung by . It is termed as a teasing-romantic number. The fourth single “Sarileru Neekkevvaru Anthem” was released on 23 December 2019. Sung by Shankar Mahadevan, it features an orchestra from Europe, which recorded the film’s score. The fifth single track “Daang Daang” was released on 30 December 2019, which was sung by Nakash Aziz and Lavita Lobo. The full album was released on 5 January 2020. The satellite rights of the film were sold to , which premiered it on 25 March 2020 for the first time on eve of and in its first Television premier movie recorded a of 23.4. The film’s digital rights were acquired by and made available for streaming since 1 March 2020. The film was dubbed and released in as in 2020. The Tamil version was released across 200 plus theaters in . The film was also dubbed and released in as and in as . critic Neeshita Nyayapati, rated the film 3/5 stars and stated, ” definitely has its moments but Anil Ravipudi’s bloated narrative that tries too hard.” On performances, Nyayapati noted that Babu did a “good job of playing a man who will serve the country, crack jokes and protect,” while also appreciating Vijayashanthi’s role. She felt that DSP’s music was “okay” and action by Ram-Lakshman was “engaging”, but Ratnavelu’s cinematography was “unfortunately overshadowed by subpar VFX shots.”. Jeevi of rated the film 3/5 stars, praising Mahesh Babu’s entertaining performance and charisma despite the weak storyline. The highlights include Mahesh Babu, entertainment, and commercial elements, but the second half is slow and goes off track. editor Hemanth Kumar rated the film 3.25/5 stars and stated: “Mahesh Babu hits it out of the park in Anil Ravipudi’s fine blend of heroism and comedy.” In a review for , Manoj Kumar rated the film 3.5/5 stars and wrote “Mahesh Babu shines in mind bending popcorn fare.” gave the film 3/5 and called it a “A commercial action-entertainer.” Sangeetha Devi of wrote “Mahesh Babu’s film is a partly entertaining mixed bag.” A reviewer of rated the film 3/5 stars and wrote, “The movie will be like an eye feast for the audience who have been waiting to see Mahesh Babu in a complete entertaining role”. Mirchi9 rated Overall, Sarileru Neekevvaru is an easy one-time watch for lovers of mass entertainers with action and comedy. If one likes the star but don’t like the ‘comedy’, it becomes a decent one-time at best. If one is looking for something more, they would be partly disappointed as content-wise there is nothing new. Telugu360 rated the movie with 3/5 and mentioned Sarileru Neekevvaru is an engaging commercial entertainer, and Mahesh Babu excelled in it. Director Anil Ravipudi presented Mahesh Babu in a never before mass avatar which will make fans go berserk for sure. First half is good, half way through the second half this movie loses its steam a bit , but the last song and easy climax bring the proceedings back on track. It is a family friendly movie with no vulgarity or violence just entertainment. On its opening day, collected ₹46.77 crore worldwide. Within three days, the film grossed ₹103 crore, and within 10 days, it reached ₹200 crore. After a box office run of 50 days, the film grossed over ₹260 crore worldwide, becoming one of the . In the Telugu-speaking states of and , the film collected a share of ₹32.77 crore on the opening day and amassed over ₹100 crore in 10 days. On the opening day movie collected 237 thousand in , 20.75 thousand in and 55.23 thousand in and in two days the movie collected $1.31 million in . In three days the movie collected 6.45 thousand from , $1.63 million from USA and 70.69 thousand from UK. In nine days the movie collected $2 million from USA, 349.25 thousand from Australia 96.22 thousand from UK and 35.57 thousand from New Zealand. And it crossed over $2.3 million in and marked as 3rd film to collect $2 million in ‘s career after and .</p>