The film was released on 24 August 2012, The film received mixed reviews, who appreciated comical performances of the cast, humor, and drama, but criticized for screenplay, unrealistic situations, narration, and Rao's direction.
Plot
Kamesh and his wife become the proud parents of a dynamic and powerful new baby who is born with a six pack body. Just when the baby is born, Thikkal Reddy comes in as the villain in search of his enemy who runs into New Born Baby's room. He prays to god to save him and hides in the room. The New Born Baby does urination for a long time which leads to the death of Thikkal Reddy's elder son and he becomes a sworn enemy of the baby. To save the baby from Thikkal Reddy, Kamesh gets his mother to escape to Hyderabad. The baby grows up into Siva, a powerful and dynamic young guy with seemingly invincible powers like a Telugu Cinema hero.
Siva can make bullets stop, challenge time and even make Posani Krishna Murali speak intelligently. On a side note, Siva meets Priya over the course of time and falls in love with her. Thikkal Reddy's gang members keep hunting for Siva and he decides to fight back. He also faces resistance from the mysterious Don D.
He fights them all with his powers and it is revealed that he is Siva Manohar I.P.S., a Young Cop in Undercover Operation. He has all the villains dead and when it comes to Don D, it is none other than his Grand Mother. She does so as to elevate Siva as a powerful hero and herself as a Don. At the court both are Exonerated and Siva is promoted as D.G.P. of Andhra Pradesh.
The music launch of Sudigadu was held on 23 July in Hyderabad. Sri Vasanth has scored the music and it was also reported that Allari Naresh also sang a song in this film. The audio was released by Dasari, who handed over the first copy to Tanish, Nikhil, and Uday Kiran. It is the only film which had a Platinum Disc Function before the release of its audio.
The song "Gajibiji Gathukula Roaddu" is copied from the song "Diva Diva" from the Kannada movie Johny Mera Naam Preethi Mera Kaam.
Sudigadu is a movie made based mostly on many popular films in the past 10 years and can be termed both a satire and homage to Telugu cinema. Some Tamil and Hollywood films were also parodied.
Qualifications of a Telugu cinema hero (by the director)
Heroes worship their mother more than gods and goddesses (even in these days when all send their parents to old age homes).
Heroes take utmost care of their sisters and save them from any small to big problems.
Heroes are capable of making heroines fall in love with them although heroines are rich & heroes are poor.
Heroes punish anyone who does crime and harm to society, even though they are the fathers of heroines (to be frank, heroes always love villain's daughters)
Heroes (wearing modern costumes) always give lectures to heroines to follow the customs & traditions. (but they dance only with the heroines wearing modern costumes only)
Heroes feel their friend's sisters to be their sisters (there is a scope of change in opinion if one of their friend's sisters is very beautiful)
Heroes can fight the crimes & injustice prevailing in the society very easily
Heroes can ride air planes and helicopters if necessary, although it is the first time they see these.
Heroes always remain fresh even after long fights with hundreds of men.
Heroes have a six pack body, and are experts in dialogue delivery and fighting skills.
Parts of a hero (by the director)
Brain – 24x7 solves the problems faced by the people in the society.
Eyes – get red in color with anger after seeing the injustice done to the people & crimes committed in the society.
Mouth – speaks hi-fi punch dialogues very easily.
Shoulders – carry on the Indian financial system.
Heart – always strives for the poor (when heroine is not beside him).
Hands – has the capacity to defeat hundreds of powerful villains.
Feet – makes the land prosper with all riches and happiness with its one touch.
a friend's dad (Suman Shetty reprises the role of Chandra Mohan) admonishes the hero for 'wasting his (blood) money on cigarettes'. A poster of the film appears in the asylum scene.
L.B. Sriram's character is named as Remo. Hero takes a criminal to a buffalo shed but fails to create a buffalo stampede, which happens in Aparichitudu. Seeing this the criminal dies laughing as he was a heart patient, which was hero's main motive.
hero creates a flower magically and throws it behind intended to hit the heroine, but in this case, he does it twice and they both miss the aim and hit the heroine's father and maid.
All the scenes' location and time appears in the typical Athadu style at the bottom of the screen. Eg: Time vaachipoyindi (transl. Time is running out), Gabbar Singh release-ayy collections-la kanakavarsam kurustunna vela (transl. When Gabbar Singh's collections are released, it is raining)
hero murders a criminal by showing him a scene from a daily serial Pootha Rekulu in large no. of televisions at a time as the criminal was the main reason for water problems in the city.
most of the dialogues of the film "Business Man" are uttered by the hero, but in hilarious situations. The theme song "Bhaag Saale" is used in the film.
Challenge (reality show)
the famous reality dance program is mimicked. A typical judgment segment involving Ohmkar and three judges (Sundaram Master, Shiva Shankar Master and Posani Krishna Murali) is presented after Naresh's dance performance. Shiva Shankar Master and Posani Krishna Murali have acted as themselves in this scene.
the dialogue "padi taraalu ne vamsam lo maga pilladini kanali ante bayapadathaaru" (transl. They are afraid to have a male child in the family for ten generations) is said in the film.
the hero utters the famous dialogue "Mind lo fix aithe blind ga velipotha" (transl. I go blindly if I am fixed in my mind) but following the dialogue, he hits a rack in his room.
heroine gets a shock during her childhood when a boy touches her. In the present hero touches the hand of heroine's hand which gives her a shock. She hugs him and confesses that she loves him, but the unknown truth to her is that the shock was due to an electric battery kept in the hero's mouth.
The hero makes an entry on his bike. The villain cannot kill people outside his house – only within. (As compared to the opposite condition in the original movie.)
another attempt of the hero to impress the heroine by telling her to spend 10 minutes time with her during which he takes her to a home where he has adopted failed-love people.
MS Narayana tells the famous dialogue "Mee peddolu unnare...Maa youth feelings yeppatiki artham kesukoru" (transl. Are your elders there...they will never understand our youth feelings) after getting scolded by his father.
the dialogue "Current wire naa laga sanaga untadi, cani mutukunte shock isthadi" (transl. An electric wire is like a pea like me, but it gives a shock when I touch it) is said by Allari Naresh
Kondavalasa's character is named Robo. His abilities such as having a punch power of 1210 psi and being 8 feet tall are spoofs of Chitti's abilities. Hero scans various dance books at a time in no time to learn dance and impress his lover. Also he kills a villain by catching the bullet left by his gun, made a lot of bullets and firing them on the goons stating "Happy Diwali Folks". Kovai Sarala uses Chitti for various kitchen duties.
the villain's son, upon getting kicked by the hero as infant goes into a coma and the doctors suggest he can be revived only after he gets kicked again by the hero.
Siva imagines Priya's face in a Shakeela film poster titled Thimmarusu in the song "Yenduke Cheli"
Critical reception
Sudigadu has received mostly positive reviews from critics and audience. The Times of India gave a rating of 4/5.[6]The Hindu stated that "Sudigadu is definitely worth a watch. The humour, here, is without malice and that itself is a big plus.[7]NDTV gave a review stating "Bhimaneni Srinivas's Telugu film Sudigadu is a laugh riot that keeps the audience entertained right up till the end".[8] Radhika Rajamani of Rediff.com gave a review stating "The film offers fun unlimited and will surely go down well with families".[9] Mahesh Koneru of 123telugu.com gave a rating of 3.25/5 stating "Sudigaadu is a good clean entertainer that will make you laugh out loud. The spoofs are brilliant. Sudigaadu is one very enjoyable spoof on TFI and it makes for a good watch this weekend. Don’t miss it".[10]
Box office
Sudigadu proved to be a hit at the box office. The movie had a strong start in both Indian and overseas market with nearly 70% occupancy. The film has collected approximately Rs 58 million at the Indian box office on its 1st day and its performance is far better than that of several Telugu films of 2012.
In the US the movie raked in a storming US$100,000 for 3 days.[citation needed] The audience response for the movie on the first day was better than that of recent releases. Excluding Julayi, Eega, Rachcha and Gabbar Singh, no other Telugu movie has received such a good response at the USA box office in recent months.[citation needed] According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film has taken Rs 2,455,000 ($44,255) from its screening in the country on Thursday and Friday.
Sudigadu collected a total collections of ₹700 million (US$8.1 million) till the end of its worldwide run.[11]
