Janda Pai Kapiraju

Janda Pai Kapiraju
Directed by	Samuthirakani
Produced by	K. S. Sreenivasan
Starring	Sarathkumar Nani Siva Balaji Amala Paul Ragini Dwivedi
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography	M. Sukumar - M. Jeevan
Edited by	S.N.Fazil
Production company	Vasan Visual Ventures
Release dates	21 March 2015 (2015-03-21)
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	10 Crores

Janda Pai Kapiraju (English: Monkey King on the Flag) is a 2015 Indian Telugu action film written and directed by Samuthirakani featuring Nani and Amala Paul in the lead roles.^[1] The film's soundtrack and background score were composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar.^[2] This film was simultaneously made in Tamil as Nimirndhu Nil with Jayam Ravi and also dubbed in Hindi with same title. While the Tamil version released in 2014 and went on to become a BlockBuster, the Telugu version released only on 21 March 2015 to positive reviews. Nani played a dual role in his career for the first time.

Plot

Arvind (Nani) who came to the city from a rural area, is a naive employee in a company. He cannot tolerate corruption, bribery, breaking rules, lavishness and the urban culture of youth in cities. He is caught by traffic police for a minor mistake though not of his own. Although he has all documents with him, he is asked a bribe by traffic policeman. When he refuses to pay the bribe, a complaint is booked against him and he is sentenced by the court, even though he complains about the bribe.

Finally he does a sting operation with 2 of his friends and 10 honest employees in various government offices by applying for identity cards like PAN card, voter card, ration card for an anonymous person.

Cast

• Sarathkumar
• Nani as Arvind Shivashankar/ Mahesh Kannan / Harish Chandran
• Siva BalajiNARAdimha
• Amala Paul as Indumathi
• Ragini Dwivedi
• Ruthika Srinivasan
• Nassar
• Anil Murali
• Subbu Panchu
• Parvathy Nair
• Vennela Kishore
• Tanikella Bharani
• Namo Narayana
• Chitra Lakshmanan
• Chandramohan
• Baby Angela as younger sister of Amala Paul(Twin 1)
• Baby Andrea as younger sister of Amala Paul (Twin 2)
• Jeyam Ravi (Cameo appearance in Rajadhi Raja song)

Production

The film was launched on 1 August 2013 at Annapurna Studios. The film's first schedule of shooting started a day later.^[3] Nani plays dual roles - that of a 24-year-old and of an 18-year-old. Amala Paul will play the female lead in both the versions.^[4] The movie will be produced by KS Sreenivasan's Vaasan Visual Ventures.^[5] Meghana Raj was reported to have an important role in the film,^[6] but she said on Twitter that she was not acting in the film.^[7] Ragini Dwivedi was roped in to play an important role.^[8] By March 2013, shooting of the movie was said to be 50% complete and first look was launched on Nani's birthday.^[9] The next schedule began in the same month in Hyderabad whose duration was of 3 weeks in which scenes on Nani and Amala were shot.^[10] On 26 November 2013 Nani on his Twitter revealed the looks of his Dual roles.^[11] On 5 December 2013 a press note was released which revealed that the film's shoot was wrapped up that day.^[12] The movie released on 21 March 2015.^[13]

Soundtrack

Janda Pai Kapiraju
Soundtrack album of Janda Pai Kapiraju by G. V. Prakash Kumar
Released	28 December 2013
Recorded	2012
Genre	Feature film soundtrack
Length	19:29
Language	Telugu
Label	Saregama
Producer	G. V. Prakash Kumar
G. V. Prakash Kumar chronology
Nimirndhu Nil (2013) Janda Pai Kapiraju (2013)

G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the Music for both the Telugu and Tamil Versions which featured the same soundtrack. The Audio was launched on Saregama Music Label at Shilpakala Vedika, Hyderabad on 28 December 2013.^[14]

All lyrics written by Anantha Sreeram. 

References

External links

• Janda Pai Kapiraju at the Internet Movie Database