Autonagar Surya (2014)

Interesting facts

Autonagar Surya is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language Periodic political action drama film directed by Deva Katta. The film stars Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, with Brahmanandam and Sai Kumar in pivotal roles. The film was produced by K. Atchi Reddy, under Max India Productions, while R. R. Movie Makers initially presented the film, but later disassociated themselves with the film owing to the delays. It is the second film in Deva Katta's quadrilogy of society, which show's the perspective of a common man on society.

Production

During the post-production activities of his directorial Prasthanam, a 26-year-old IT employee was migrating from Chennai to Calcutta along with his wife, 18-month-old baby and some extra luggage. In Orissa around midnight, a couple of drunk railway police boarded the compartment. They asked him whether he paid for all of the extra luggage.

Deva Katta later reacted to the incident. He said, "The problem does not lay 'in' the system but way 'under' the system, deep inside each one of us, our very understanding about life and its interconnections. All actions and reactions finally boil down to the elemental level of thinking with which we live and view others life." He also said that "More than the incident it was the responsiveness of the total system that alarmed me the most" as the…

Though the origin of this project was revealed by Deva Katta in the late 2010, Naga Chaitanya signed an Untitled film which was reported to be directed by Deva Katta under Max India Productions which would make this film Deva Katta's Third Directorial Venture in 2011. Deva Katta confirmed that the project is Autonagar Surya itself and not any other film.

In December 2010, reports emerged that Nandamuri Balakrishna was recruited to play the role of Surya. However, Deva Katta dismissed those reports. Later it was reported that Deva Katta approached Pawan Kalyan for playing the title role. Finally after much speculation, Naga Chaitanya was signed to play the role of Surya in February 2011 and Samantha was apparently selected as the heroine with only the former was confirmed then.

Veteran actor and voice artist Sai Kumar was recruited to play the role of Heroine's father. Brahmanandam was recruited to play a hilarious role and later some morphed photos of Brahmanandam used in the film were officially released into the Internet which received positive response allover. It was said that his role was named "Super Mechanic" Brahmi who is a rival to Surya's business and Venu Madhav would be his assistant.

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