Janda Pai Kapiraju

Janda Pai Kapiraju (2015)

జెండాపై కపిరాజు

A naive rural newcomer fights a wrongful bribe charge, teaming with friends to expose police corruption through a daring sting operation while applying for identity cards under an anonymous persona.

Date of release
2015-03-21
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (3)
Runtime
2h 29m
Genres
Action, Romance, Thriller
Director
Samuthirakani

Casting

Interesting facts

Janda Pai Kapiraju is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language political action drama film written and directed by Samuthirakani, and features Nani in dual roles and Amala Paul in lead roles. The film's soundtrack and score were composed by G. V. Prakash Kumar. The original version was in Tamil language, titled Nimirndhu Nil, with Ravi Mohan in the main role. While the Tamil version with Ravi released in 2014, the Telugu version was released on March 21, 2015. Nani played a double role for the first time in his career. Despite already having a Tamil version, the Telugu version was dubbed and released in Tamil as Velan Ettuthikkum in 2018.

Production

The film was launched on 1 August 2013 at Annapurna Studios. The film's first schedule of shooting started a day later. Nani plays dual roles — that of a 24-year-old and of a 42-year-old. Amala Paul plays the female lead in both the versions. The movie was produced by KS Sreenivasan's Vaasan Visual Ventures. Meghana Raj was reported to have an important role in the film, but she said on Twitter that she was not acting in the film.

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