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- Brahmotsavam (transl. Grand celebration) is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language family melodrama film written and directed by Srikanth Addala. The film was co-produced by Prasad V. Potluri under the banner PVP cinema in association with G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment. It starts Mahesh Babu, Kajal Aggarwal, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash. Gopi Sundar scored the film while Mickey J. Meyer composed the film's soundtrack album. R. Rathnavelu and Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao handled the film's cinematography and editing respectively. The film's story was based on the lines of Addala's previous directorial Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013), which also featured Mahesh Babu and samantha Ruth Prabhu. The plot follows Babu, the son of a reputed entrepreneur and a well-respected person in the family, who was engaged to his cross-cousin, but falls in love with an NRI. However, after his cousin's father learns this, it leads to tension in the family, while Babu hopes to bring peace. Addala worked on the film's script for more than a year, announced on collaborating for a new project with Babu in October 2014. Babu signed this project before the completion of his previous film Srimanthudu (2015). The film was launched on 31 May 2015, whereas principal photography commenced in August 2015. Major portions of the film were shot at the Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, with filming also took place in Ooty, Chennai and Varanasi, before the shooting process being wrapped in March 2016. Released on 20 May 2016, the film received highly negative response from both critics and the audience for its bad direction, screenplay, illogical and disjointed sequences & character design of the actors. and was a box office bomb, grossing only ₹63.70 crore amidst a budget of ₹75 crore. (en)
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