Tulasi (film)

Tulasi is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Boyapati Srinu, and produced by D.Suresh Babu on Suresh Productions banner. It stars Venkatesh and Nayantara in the lead roles.

Plot
Parvataneni Tulasi Ram is an architect in Hyderabad who is also the native of Rayalaseema, which is well known for factional feuds. When his wife Vasundhara turns pregnant, Tulasi takes her to their native place. After arriving at the native place, Tulasi turns violent when a rival faction pushes his father Dasaratha Ramayya and the factional feuds continue to haunt him. When Vasundhara's brother Harsha dies in the attack by factionists, Vasundhara could not digest the violence and deserts Tulasi with their son also named Harsha. Later, Tulasi learns that Harsha has a blood clot in his brain, which may cause a hemorrhage. With the help of Dr. Surekha, Tulasi summons specialists from abroad in order to get Harsha operated. When everything is ready for the surgery, a gangster named Veeranna, kidnaps Harsha as both of his sons Ravi and Shankar were killed by Tulasi. However, Tulasi kills Veeranna in order to save Harsha, where Tulasi finally reunites with Vasundhara and Harsha.

Cast

 * Venkatesh as Parvataneni Tulasi Ram
 * Nayantara as Vasundhara Tulasi Ram
 * Master Atul as Harsha, Tulasi and Vasundhara's son
 * Ashish Vidyarthi as Veeranna, a gangster
 * Rahul Dev as Basavaraju
 * Vijaykumar as Parvataneni Dasaratha Ramayya, Tulasi's father
 * Sivaji as Harsha, Vasundhara's brother
 * Brahmanandam as Appalaraju / Pappalaraju
 * Ali as Apartment Owner
 * Uttej as Tulasi's friend
 * Ramya Krishnan as Dr. Surekha
 * Sana as Tulasi's foster mother
 * Sudha as Tulasi's mother
 * Chandramohan as Tulasi's foster father
 * Ahuti Prasad as Raghavendra, Tulasi's father
 * Subbaraju as Ravi, Veeranna's elder son
 * Riyaz Khan as Shankar, Veeranna's younger son
 * Jhansi as Kokapet aunty
 * Jaya Prakash Reddy as Chandrayya, Ramayya's rival
 * Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Venkat Rao
 * Raghu Babu as Raghu
 * Ravi Babu as Prasad
 * Tanikella Bharani as Kantepudi Srinivasa Rao
 * Naramalli Sivaprasad
 * Narsing Yadav as Narasing, Veeranna's henchman
 * Banerjee as Banerjee
 * Bandla Ganesh
 * Sameer
 * Chitram Seenu
 * Dr. Siva Prasad
 * Siva Parvathi
 * Shravan
 * Tarzan
 * Sravani
 * Devisri
 * Saraswatamma
 * Bill Bitra
 * Shriya Saran in a guest appearance in the song "Ne Chuk Chuk Bandini"

Soundtrack
Music composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Music released on ADITYA Music Company. Audio of Tulasi was launched at a function arranged in the song set at Rama Naidu studios in the evening of 22 September 2007. K. Raghavendra Rao, D. Ramanaidu and KL Narayana attended this function as guests. K. Raghavendra Rao released the audio cassette and gave the first unit to D. Ramanaidu. D. Ramanaidu released the audio CD and gave the first unit to Shriya Saran.

Release
The film released with 290 prints worldwide, in 312 screens in India which includes 20 screens in Andhra Pradesh, 21 screens in Karnataka and 7 screens in Tamil Nadu. The film had a 50-day run in 225 centres and was declared a super hit. It was later dubbed and released in Tamil and Malayalam with the same title and in Hindi as The Real Man Hero.

Box office

 * The film has undergone the theatrical business of 12 crores and grossed 32 crores during its full run and got distributor share of 18.43 crores and emerged as Super Hit
 * TV rights sold for Rs. 20 million.
 * It is the first Telugu film to complete 50 days direct in 225 theatres across Andhra.

Awards

 * Jhansi won Nandi Award for Best Female Comedian