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Legend is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language masala film written and directed by Boyapati Srinu. The film stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in a dual role alongside Jagapathi Babu, Sonal Chauhan and Radhika Apte. It was produced by 14 Reels Entertainment and Varahi Chalana Chitram.[4][5][6] The film has music composed by Devi Sri Prasad.[7]

Legend
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Boyapati Srinu
Written by	Boyapati Srinu M. Ratnam (dialogues)
Produced by	Ram Achanta Gopichand Achanta Anil Sunkara
Starring	Nandamuri Balakrishna Jagapathi Babu Sonal Chauhan Radhika Apte
Cinematography	C. Ram Prasad
Edited by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad[1]
Production companies	14 Reels Entertainment Varahi Chalana Chitram
Release date	28 March 2014 (2014-03-28)[2]
Running time	161 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	est. ₹150 crore[3]

Legend was released on 28 March 2014 worldwide.[8][9]

Upon release, the film received mixed reviews from critics and went on to become the fourth-highest grossing film of 2014 in Telugu. The film received praise for the performances of Balakrishna and Babu in addition to the music, dialogues and direction.[10][11]

Plot

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1989: Jitendra is a ruthless crime boss in Kurnool, who is in Vizag to meet Jitendra's proposed bride, who is the daughter of the local MLA. During their return, Jeetendra accidents an aged man and also shoots a bystander, who asked him to come out of the car. They are taken to the local landlord, who lives with his family and his trusted accomplice Raghavaiah. The landlord asks Jitendra to apologize to the injured persons and asks him to pay compensation. This hurts Jitendra's ego and he insults them. The landlord gets him arrested and Jitendra vows to take revenge. Jitendra's father then kidnaps the landlord's wife and Jaidev and forces him to take back the complaint. Jitendra is released and goes to the place where they are held captive. Much to his shock, he sees his father and many of their henchmen killed. One of them reveals that Ramaraju had killed Jaidev's mother and Jaidev kills mostly all of them. Thus their enmity gets permanent. Back in the landlord's house, Jaidev's grandmother fears that he might be killed like his great-grandfather tells Jaidev to stop the enmity. Meanwhile, Jitendra's anger rises day by day and he settles in Vizag along with all their henchmen and also kills his father-in-law when he tried to stop him. Jitendra kills the landlord and this prompts Jaidev's grandmother to send Krishna to Dubai.

2014: Krishna is a Dubai-based businessman, who saves a bunch of Indian girls to be sold in the flesh trade and is planning to arrive in Vizag, along with his fiancee Sneha and Guru Manikyam to talk about their marriage in India. After leaving the airport, Krishna saves a dock worker, who was an ex-MLA from the hands of Jeetendra's elder son, Chotu, and his henchmen as they wanted to kill him as there would be no evidence against their pending cases. Krishna thrashes them and is noticed by Jaidev's former accomplices. He then meets with Sneha's father, who is the local DC. Meanwhile, Chotu and the ex-MLA are both admitted to the same hospital and Chotu gets killed under mysterious circumstances. The police, under the payroll of Jitendra, headed by a corrupt ACP, view the CCTV footage which shows that Krishna was present at both the spots. At the temple, Jitendra shoots Krishna and orders his second son and henchmen to kill the whole family including Sneha, but they are saved by Jaidev, who is Krishna's elder brother. Jaidev kills all the henchmen, Jitendra's second son, and the ACP. Jaidev reveals that it was he who killed Chotu in the hospital. During the funeral of Jeetendra's sons, The MLA tells Jaidev's story to Jitendra's youngest son and says that he has a dangerous past.

1999: Jitendra wants to make his brother Ajay the MLA and killed the local MP for not giving him the party ticket due to his criminal background. Jaidev, along with his accomplices thrashes him and gets Jitendra arrested. He is separated from his family by his grandmother, as he had not obeyed her orders. His cousin Radhika falls in love with him, and Jaidev reluctantly accepts her love. Jaidev threatens State Union minister from Delhi, who wants Jeetendra to be Chief Minister. Ajay kidnaps Krishna. Jaidev arrives at Jeetendra's house and saves Krishna where he kills Ajay and his henchmen. He threatens Jeetendra to leave Vizag and never to show his face again. At the railway station in Kurnool, Jaidev is forced by his accomplice to take revenge. Jitendra arrives back in Vizag where he kidnaps Radhika and takes her to a railway yard where he stabs her to death. Jaidev arrives and kills all the remaining henchmen, including Jeetendra's right hand and infuriating Jeetendra, but survives. Radhika dies due to the injuries and his grandmother throws him out of the family.

2014: The MLA advises Jeetendra's third son to leave for USA to avoid Jaidev. In the hospital, Krishna survives and Jaidev apologizes to his grandmother, but she realizes her mistake and reunites with Jaidev and orders him to finish Jeetendra. Meanwhile, Jeetendra is planning to become the Chief Minister with the help of a Central Union Minister and plans to bribe all the candidates to get majority seats. Just before the meeting, Jaidev had called them to a different location where he threatens all the candidates to work for the people. The candidates agree to support Jaidev. Jeetendra learns about this and arrives at the venue and attempts to kill all the candidates, but they are saved by Jaidev. In an ensuing fight, Jaidev kills Jitendra, once and for all and all his henchmen.

Cast

Music

Legend
Soundtrack album by Devi Sri Prasad
Released	6 March 2014 (2014-03-06)
Recorded	2014
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	23:36
Label	Lahari Music
Producer	Devi Sri Prasad
Devi Sri Prasad chronology
Bramman (2014) Legend (2014) Alludu Seenu (2014)

Music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Lyrics were written by Ramajogayya Sastry. Music was released on Lahari Music company. The music director Devi Sri Prasad, teaming up with Boyapati Srinu for the third time after Bhadra and Tulasi,[12] and scoring for the first time for a Balakrishna film[13] There are six tracks in the album.[14] Audio was bought by Lahari Music.[15][16] The music was launched on 6 March 2014 at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad with the film's theatrical trailer.

Production

Casting

Bollywood actress Sonal Chauhan was roped as one of the leading actress.[17] Jagapathi Babu was cast as the antagonist in the film.[18] Kalyani paired up with Jagapathi Babu as his wife.[19] Anil Sunkara confirmed that Radhika Apte was the heroine.[20] Hamsa Nandini appeared in a special song with Balakrishna.[21][22]

Filming

The muhurtham ceremony of the film was held on 3 June 2013[23] in Hyderabad.[5] The film was supposed to start its shoot in Dubai, but the production team decided to start off because Some permissions did not come through in time.[24] The regular shooting of the film started in Ramoji Film City on 13 July 2013 at Hyderabad. The introduction scene of the hero was shot under the action choreography of Ram Laxman.[25] A special car chase sequence of the film was shot in the deserts of Dubai[26] and a song was canned on Balakrishna and Sonal Chauhan in this schedule.[27]

Release

Legend was released worldwide on 28 March 2014[2][28] and was shown in 700 theaters across the state and over 1200 theaters worldwide.^{[citation needed]}

Box office

Legend ran for 100 days in 31 centres and 175 days in 2 centres. The film completed 200 days run in two centres (Yemmiganur -Direct (Kurnool district), Proddutur(Kadapa District) -Single Shift). The film also completed 275 days run in 2 centers: Yemmiganur -Direct (Kurnool district), Proddutur (Kadapa District – Single Shift). After Muddula Mavayya, Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu and Simha 5th film to complete double century.[29]

The film completed 365 days run in two theatres in Kurnool district with direct four shows and it also completed 1000 days in Proddutur (56 days in Arveti theatre and 944 days (single shift 4 shows) at Archana theatre).[30]

Accolades

Year	Ceremony	Category	Nominee	Result
2015	GAMA Awards 2014	Best Background score	Devi Sri Prasad	Won
		Best Title Song	Devi Sri Prasad	Won
	62nd Filmfare Awards South	Best Supporting Actor	Jagapathi Babu	Won
	TSR – TV9 National Film Awards[31]	Best Director	Boyapati Srinu	Won
		Best Actor	Nandamuri Bala Krishna	Won[32]
		Best Villain	Jagapathi Babu	Won
	4th South Indian International Movie Awards	Best Film (Telugu)		Nominated[33]
		Best Director (Telugu)	Boyapati Srinu	Nominated[33]
		Best Actor (Telugu)	Nandamuri Bala Krishna	Won[34]
		Best Supporting Actor (Telugu)	Sujatha Kumar	Nominated[33]
		Best Actor in a Negative Role (Telugu)	Jagapathi Babu	Won[33]
		Best Fight Choreographer	Ram-Laxman and Kanal Kannan	Nominated[33]
		Best Lyricist (Telugu)	Ramajogayya Sastry – Nee Kanti Choopullo	Nominated[33]
2016	Nandi Awards of 2014	Best Feature Film	Korrapati Ranganatha Sai	Won
2015	13th Santosham Film Awards	Best Cinematographer	Ram Prasad	Won
		Best Action	Ram Laxman	Won

References

External links

• Legend at IMDb

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