Jabardasth (film)

Jabardasth is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. It stars Siddharth, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Nithya Menen in lead roles. The film released on 22 February 2013 and was commercial failure at the box office.

The film is inspired by 2010 Hindi film Band Baaja Baaraat. Yash Raj Films, producers of the Hindi film, claimed that Jabardasth is an unofficial remake and planned to take legal action against its makers.

Plot

Cast

Siddharth as Bairraju
Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Shreya
Nithya Menen as Saraswati
Srihari as Javed Ibrahim
Raghu Babu as Raghu, Bairraju's friend
Sayaji Shinde as Bihar Yadav
Pragathi as Shreya's mother
Thagubothu Ramesh as Ramesh
Vennela Kishore as Software Subramanyam
Suresh as Vamshi Krishna
Arjunan as Bairraju's friend
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Dance master
Telangana Shakuntala
Dhanraj
Y. Kasi Viswanath
Venu as Dance master
Duvvasi Mohan
Uttej
Kadambari Kiran
Geeta Bhagat
Sushma
Seeta Reddy
Swapnika Reddy
Prince Cecil as cameo appearance

Soundtrack

The film's audio was launched on 1 February 2013. It was attended by Surender, Samantha, Thaman, Siddharth, Srihari and Sunil with V. V. Vinayak being the chief guest.

Release

The film's satellite and audio telecast rights were sold for 5.25 crores.

Critical reception

Reception

Idlebrain.com's Jeevi gave a rating of 3/5 for the film. Rediff wrote:"First half was fun but second half was dragged".