Once Upon a Warrior (2011)
"Anaganaga O Dheerudu" (original title)

In a teardrop-shaped land called Sangarashtra, a 9-year-old girl with special healing powers tries to save her homeland from the tyranny of an evil queen with the help of a blind swordsman.

Director:

Prakash Rao

Writers:

Rahul Koda (additional writing), Rajasimha (dialogue),

Stars:

Siddharth, Shruti K. Haasan, Lakshmi Manchu

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Siddharth	...	Yodha
Shruti K. Haasan	...	Priya (as Shruti Haasan)
Lakshmi Manchu	...	Irendri
Harshitha	...	Moksha
Ravi Babu	...	Sudigundam
Vallabhaneni Ramji	...	Druki
Brahmanandam	...	Jaffa
Ali	...	Jilebi
Tanikella Bharani	...	Kakshira
Sudarshan	...	Gunda
Charan	...	Child
Madhavi	...	Devika
Hari Teja	...	Chitra
Subbaraju	...	Danaiah (as Subba Raju)
Subbaraya Sarma	...	Lama

Storyline

The evil witch queen Irendri's reign of terror spreads across the teardrop-shaped land Sangarashtra. The strong are forced to join her army, the weak are sacrificed to her snake demon. Moksha, a young girl raised in a monastery untouched by the tyranny, has been gifted with healing powers. Irendri knows that the child's blood will grant her immortality, and sends her army to find her. Moksha's sworn protector is Yodha --a blind swordsman who dreams of his lost love, the beautiful gypsy girl Priya. Can they find a way to conquer Irendri and her dark forces?

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Plot Keywords:

evil queen | girl | blind swordsman | nine year old | fantasy land | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Family | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence and scary images

Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

India

Language:

Telugu

Release Date:

21 January 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Once Upon a Warrior

Filming Locations:

Annapoorna Studios, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Box Office

Budget:

INR 270,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Abode, Bellyful of Dreams Entertainment, A

Technical Specs

Runtime:

133 min 133 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Walt Disney Pictures' first Indian live-action feature film. Their first Indian animated film was Roadside Romeo, a co-production with Yash Raj Films.

User Reviews

A bore some movie

The movie magnet "disney" had entered Telugu field with this movie. The movie is rich in it's photography,visual effects and costumes.

The draw back is a week story line,a regular old story.It might be made quite interesting but prakash failed in doing so.

The makeup work is absolutely superb for laxmi and sruthi hassan.

Sruthi looked like an angel and have no words to describe her.

Siddarth is not apt for this kind of movies. First 15 minutes of movie is rich in visual effects and story drags at siddarth's flash back.

Songs are disastrous and irritate.This kind of movies must not have them.

I don't understand why the heroin is in caves protected by snakes those who die at a single shot from siddhu's knief.And even laxmi at climax dies for a single knife shot.

This is a movie to watch at home but not theaters.

Finally prakash will have a very good future if he concentrates on story