Bejawada (film)

Bejawada or sometimes Bezawada is a Telugu actioncrime film directed by Vivek Krishna and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. The film features Naga Chaitanya and Amala Paul in the lead roles. The movie received extremely negative reviews and was declared as disaster at the Box Office. Later it was dubbed in Hindi as Hero The Action Man. and also in Tamil as Vikram Dhadha.

Ram Gopal Varma announced that he was to direct a Telugu film titled Bejawada Rowdilu in a press note in September 2010, which would revolve around the rowdy wars of Vijayawada, also known as Bejawada. The title started a controversy from vijayawada locales who felt that title wrongly defamed their city, so Varma in August 2011 announced that the film would simply be known as Bejawada. The film was officially launched onMay 2011 with Ram Gopal Varmas protg, Vivek Krishna, announced as the director. The team held a photo shoot and filmed for two days in Vijayawada with Preetika Rao, before removing her from the project with the producer citing that she looked older than the lead actor, Naga Chaitanya. She was subsequently replaced by Amala Paul.The film received extremely negative reviews,both from critics and audiences.123telugu rated it 1.755, lamenting that the film had No of heroism in the first half, no villainism in second half Greatandhra rated it 205 and said that the film had racha to do with the history Rediff.com rated it 1.55 and stated that Bezawada is let down by its script The Times Of India rated itand said that Despite all the expectations riding on it, Bejawada joins the long list of disasters from the RGV factory. ........

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