Arjun (film)

Arjun (Telugu:అర్జున్) is a Tollywood film released on August 18, 2004, and was directed by Gunasekhar. This is the second time Mahesh Babu and Gunasekhar are teaming up after delivering blockbuster Okkadu. Shriya Saran, Keerthi Reddy, Raja and Prakash Raj play other roles.

Plot

Arjun (Mahesh Babu) and Meenakshi (Keerthi Reddy) are twins. Arjun and Meenakshi complete their graduation. Meenakshi and Uday (Raja) who study in the same class fall in love and they do not express it when they leave the college. Raja's marriage gets fixed by his Madhurai based parents Bala Nayagar (Prakash Raj) and Andal (Saritha). Raja sends an invitation card along with a letter expressing his love to Meenakshi and she expresses her feelings to Arjun. He goes to Madhurai along with his parents and gets Uday and Meenakshi married to each other. Bala and Andal are cold-blooded murderers and they are not happy with this. Arjun foils all the attempts by Bala and Andal to get rid of Meenakshi from the life of Raja. The rest of the story of the film is about how he exposes the evil nature of the in-laws.

Cast

• Mahesh Babu ... Arjun
• Shriya Saran ... Roopa
• Keerthi Reddy ... Meenakshi
• Raja ... Uday
• Prakash Raj ... Bala Nayagar
• Saritha ... Andal

Crew

• Director: Gunasekhar
• Screenplay: Gunasekhar
• Story: Gunasekhar
• Dialogue: Paruchuri Brothers
• Producer: G. Ramesh Babu
• Music: Mani Sharma
• Choreography: Raju Sundaram & Raghava Lawrence
• Editor: A. Sreekar Prasad
• Director of Photography: Sekhar V. Joseph
• Lyrics: Veturi
• Art Director: Thotta Tharani
• Stunts: Vijayan

Box-office performance

• 100 days in 21 centres.[1]

Trivia

• In this film, the name of the character played by Mahesh Babu is not revealed till the end. The other roles call him with the name of the relation, but none call him Arjun, and this is revealed only at the end.
• The film is to be dubbed in Tamil as Varenda Maduraiku.

External links

• Arjun at the Internet Movie Database