Rabhasa (2014)

Rabhasa is a 2014 Telugu masala film written and directed by Santosh Srinivas. It was produced by Bellamkonda Suresh and Bellamkonda Ganesh Babu for Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions and features N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Pranitha Subhash in the lead roles and Nassar, Jayasudha and Brahmanandam in key roles.S. Thaman composed the music for the film.While Shyam K. Naidu handled the cinematography, Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao provided the editing for the film.Director V. V. Vinayak provided voice-over for a few sequences in the film. The story revolves around US return student Karthik who pledges to marry his uncle Dhanunjay's daughter Indu, which was his mother's wish. A small family feud ends with both the families getting separated. He joins Indu's college to convince her to marry him but mistakenly assumes Bhagyam is Dhanunjay's daughter. Later, Karthik realizes that Indu is his cousin but she is already in love with another man. He gets entangled in a risky situation when he tries to help a stranger. The rest of the story is all about how he controls the damage and fulfills the wish of his mother. The film was launched on February 13, 2013, in Hyderabad.The principal photography started from August 2, 2013, at Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.The majority of the film was shot in Annapoorna Studios, Ramanaidu Studios, Ramoji Film City and outskirts and suburbs of Hyderabad while substantial parts of the film were shot in Jaipur and Pollachi. After shooting a song in Switzerland, the film's shooting came to an end on July 23, 2014, at Hyderabad. The film released on August 29, 2014, in theaters worldwide on the eve of Vinayaka Chathurthi to mixed reviews from critics, with most of them labelling it as a regular mass film.[10][11] Andhra Box Office reported that the film collected a distributor share of about INR27.75 crore (US$4.4 million) in its lifetime run and declared it as a "flop" at the box office.