Chirutha (transl.

 Cheetah) is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action film written and

directed by Puri Jagannadh, and produced by C. Ashwini Dutt under the banner
Vyjayanthi Movies. The film stars Ram Charan, Neha Sharma, Prakash Raj and Ashish
Vidyarthi while Tanikella Bharani, Sayaji Shinde, Daniel Balaji and Brahmanandam
play supporting roles. Ram Charan and Neha Sharma make their debuts. The film
revolves around Charan, a young man in pursuit of a gangster who murdered his
parents.

The film's soundtrack and score is composed by Mani Sharma, cinematography by Shyam
K. Naidu and editing by Saibaba. Its filming began in 2007 and was shot extensively
around Thailand. Chirutha was released worldwide on 28 September 2007. The film
held the record of being the highest-grossing Telugu film for a debut actor until
it was surpassed by Uppena (2021).[1] Charan won the Filmfare Award for Best Male
Debut – South and Nandi Special Jury Award for Best Performance in Debut film.[2]
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Contents

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
4 Soundtrack
5 Release
6 Reception
6.1 Box office
7 Dubbed versions and remakes
8 References
9 External links

Plot

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An auto driver witness Mattu Bhai murdering a journalist. He manages to capture

Mattu Bhai and his henchmen and hold them until the police arrive. Afterwards, the
auto driver returns home to his wife and little son Charan. Unfortunately, Mattu
Bhai and his henchmen barges into their house that night and kills him and his, but
Charan survives uninjured. Charan's mother is in a critical condition, but Charan
and his uncle do not have enough money to pay for her operation. The local mafia
leader's son has committed a murder and offers Charan a deal. In order to pay for
his mother's surgery, Charan goes to prison after falsely confessing to the crime.

12 years later, Charan is released from prison. When he meets his uncle again, he
finds out that his mother has died. Charan meets Sanjana, whose father is
Karthikeya, a rich business magnate. Ajay, a police officer helps Charan to get a
passport. Charan plans to go to Bangkok to join a travel agency recommended by his
uncle. Sanjana and her friends arrive in Bangkok as tourists. Charan is one of the
tour guides but seems to be irritable around Sanjana. Meanwhile, Biku and his
henchmen bother Sanjana. Charan saves Sanjana by attacking them. A few days later,
Biku and his henchmen see Sanjana again, and Charan has to fight them again. Charan
and Sanjana use a water bike to escape. They get stuck in the middle of the sea
when their water bike runs out of gas. When Sanjana wakes up, she sees an island
that is a little far away, meaning that she and Charan have to swim to the island.
Later, Charan tells Sanjana that he loves her.

Karthikeya and the other people believe that Sanjana is kidnapped by Charan as they
find out that Charan was in prison for 12 years. Karthikeya arranges helicopters to
search for Sanjana. Charan sees a helicopter in the sky, but Sanjana does not want
anyone to find them. Sanjana tells Charan that she loves him too and her father
would never let her marry him. Charan loves Sanjana but did not expect her to fall
in love with him. He reveals that he came to Bangkok to kill Mattu Bhai. Charan
found out that Mattu Bhai is running a notorious business with network in Hong
Kong, Bangkok, and other places. He has shifted his base to Bangkok. Charan tells
Sanjana that Biku is none other than Mattu Bhai's son. In Bangkok, Charan tried to
kill Mattu Bhai at a bar, but Mattu Bhai escaped and stopped coming to Bangkok.

By the time Charan finishes telling his foiled plot to kill Mattu Bhai, An army of
black assassins arrive and a fight ensues. Just then, Karthikeya arrives in a
helicopter. Sanjana, seeing her father runs to him and tells him not to hit Charan
as he did not kidnap her, but instead saved her. At first, Karthikeya tells to
leave Charan, and the goons leave him, but when Sanjana tells him that she loves
Charan, Karthikeya tells the goons to kill Charan. The assassins knock Charan and
leave. Then, a member of the company for which Charan works searches for him on a
boat, finds him and takes him back. An heated argument takes place between Sanjana
and her father, and she runs away to Charan.

Then Karthikeya calls Charan and tells him that his mother is still alive. His
uncle lied to Charan that his mother died. Karthikeya will trade Charan's mother
for Sanjana. Charan takes Sanjana to a building, where he tells her that he is
going to trade her for his mother. He tells her that she has her father, but his
mother has no one except him. Karthikeya comes and takes her, and gives Charan his
mother, who was grateful to have him, back. Meanwhile, Mattu Bhai sees the pictures
of Charan and Sanjana on television, which was the effort of Karthikeya to find her
and recognizes Charan as the person who tried to kill him. He tells Biku to kidnap
Sanjana.

Biku does the same when the exchange of Sanjana and Charan's mother begins. In the
process, A shootout ensues where all of Karthikeya's men get shot. Charan also
retaliates and kills some of Biku's men, but Biku escapes with Sanjana. Karthikeya
gets shot in the leg and tells Charan that he saw how much he loves his mother and
screams that someone is taking away his girlfriend away, so he reminds him to go
and get her. Charan leaves his mother in Karthikeya's care and runs after Biku's
car but fails to get him. One of Biku's men gets to him and gives him a phone,
where he converse with Mattu Bhai. The goons take Charan with his hands tied to the
island where Mattu Bhai and Biku are.

Mattu Bhai, without killing Charan and Sanjana as suggested by his son, lets them
escape saying he would hunt them, but Charan kills all the men of Mattu Bhai and
finally kills Biku. Using his body, Charan lures Mattu Bhai into his trap and then
kills him, in the same way that Mattu Bhai killed Charan's father. This is when
Mattu Bhai recognizes who Charan is.
Cast

Ram Charan as Charan

Akash Puri as Young Charan
Neha Sharma as Sanjana
Prakash Raj as Karthikeya, Sanjana's father
Ashish Vidyarthi as Mattu Bhai
Tanikella Bharani as Venkateswara Rao, Charan's uncle
Sayaji Shinde as ASP Ajay
Daniel Balaji as Biku, Mattu Bhai's son
Brahmanandam as Krish
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Subramaniam, Sanjana's PA
Ali as Nachimi
M. S. Narayana as Babi, Charan's boss
Venu Madhav as Charan's jailmate and friend
G. V. Sudhakar Naidu as Jailer
 Uttej as Charan's colleague in Bangkok
Srinivasa Reddy as Constable
Bandla Ganesh as Charan's colleague in Bankok
Pragathi as Charan's mother
Surya as Auto Driver,Charan's father
Satyam Rajesh as Watchman

Production

The film had completed its Bangkok schedule and also the Hyderabad schedule. Again
the unit left for Bangkok for the final schedule. After the launch and a few days
of shooting at Bangkok, the unit returned to Hyderabad.[4] In May 2007, a fight
sequence was shot in a huge set was erected at a cost of around Rs 70 lakhs at
Annapurna Studios under the supervision of Vijayan.[5] Later, the unit left for
Bangkok to continue its shooting there. The introductory song was choreographed at
Hyderabad under the dance direction of Raghava Lawrence in August.[6]
Soundtrack
Chirutha
Soundtrack album by Mani Sharma
Released 22 August 2007
Recorded 2007
Genre Soundtrack
Length 32:14
Language Telugu
Label Aditya Music
Producer Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma chronology
Lakshyam
(2007) Chirutha
(2007) Athidhi
(2007)

Mani Sharma composed the film's soundtrack and score. The audio of the film was
released on 22 August. The soundtrack received huge response and cassettes and CDs
were sold quickly.[7]
Track-ListNo. Title Lyrics Singer(s) Length
1. "Yamaho Yama" Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry Tippu 4:57
2. "Love U Raa" Ramajogayya Sastry Deepu, Rita Thyagarajan 4:50
3. "Endhuko Pichi Pichi" Kandikonda N.C. Karunya 4:31
4. "Chamka Chamka" Viswa Ranjith, Geeta Madhuri 5:07
5. "Maro Maro" Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar Rahul Nambiar, Suchitra 4:41
6. "Kannethi" Kandikonda Mallikarjun 1:47
7. "Ivala" Kandikonda KK, Sunitha Upadrashta 4:28
8. "Innallu" Kandikonda Usha 1:49
Total length: 32:21
Release

The film was initially slated to release on 22 September but postponed to 29

September.[8] The film released in 708 screens including 532 in Andhra Pradesh, 44
in Karnataka, 4 in Tamil Nadu, 3 in Odisha and 115 overseas. Chirutha collected a
first day distributors' share of nearly ₹3.81 crore (US$480,000).[9][failed
verification] In Chennai, it debuted at number 1 and averaged 100% collections from
3 screens in its opening weekend.[10]
Reception

Chirutha received generally positive reviews from critics. Y. Sunita Chowdary of

The Hindu mentioned that: "Chiruta is garnished well with commercial trappings.
You’ll find an adequate dose of romance, sentiment and dollops of violence" and
praised Charan's performance that he "earn some serious brownie points for
effortless dancing and fights".[11] Sify appreciated Charan's performance stating
that: "Ram Charan has rendered excellent performance in the dance and stunts
departments [..] He looks smart and promising".[12] Idlebrain rated the film 3 out
of 5 stating "The first half of the film is alright. The second half slows down a
bit. The plus points of the film are Ram Charan Teja, songs and fights. On the flip
side a better heroine and a better second half would have done wonders to the
film".[13]
Box office

Chirutha collected a share of 12 crores in AP alone for 7 days.[14] The film

collected ₹22.08 crore (US$2.8 million)(share) in 50 Days and declared as a Box
Office Hit worldwide. Chirutha completed 50 Days in 178 direct centres and 15 other
shifted centres.[15] the film completed 100 days in 38 direct centres.[16]