Baladoor is a 2008 Indian Telugu language-language action drama film directed by K. R. Udhayashankar and produced by D. Suresh Babu under Suresh Productions. The film stars Ravi Teja, Krishna, and Anushka Shetty while Chandra Mohan, Pradeep Rawat, Sunil and Brahmanandam play supporting roles. The film has music composed by K. M. Radha Krishnan with editing performed by Marthand K. Venkatesh. The film was released on 14 August 2008. The film was later dubbed in Hindi as Dhamkee in 2011 and remade into Odia language as Mu Kana Ete Khara.
Premise
Chanti holds his uncle, his father's elder brother, Ramakrishna, in higher regard than his own father, Purushottam. Ramakrishna has a longstanding enmity with Umapathi due to an incident that occurred 20 years ago. Later, due to some misunderstandings, Chanti is expelled from the house. Umapathi is determined to overpower Ramakrishna. The rest of the story unfolds as Chanti secretly aids Ramakrishna in defeating their enemies and eventually reunites with his family.
Cast
Soundtrack
K. M. Radha Krishnan composed the soundtrack album, which is released on 30 July 2008 by
Aditya Music. Chandrabose, Peddada Murthy, and
Ananta Sriram gave the lyrics whereas actor Venkatesh released the album CD.
Reception
Radhika Rajmani of
Rediff.com rated the film stars out of 5 and wrote: "Uday Shankar takes up a stereotypical storyline in
Baladoor and manages to entertain with a satisfactory screenplay in a formulaic way with a mix of action, comedy and romance."
Zamin Ryot Alluru Rahim in criticized the film's "lackluster screenplay" and added that the director did not handle sentiment properly.
In an other negative review, Y. Sunita Chowdhary of
The Hindu stated, "Baladoor is an average film, as the banner doesn’t offer nothing new in narration."
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