SS Rajamouli is a director with commitment. Since his debut, he has no looking back and bagged five successive hits to his credit. His latest flick 'Yamadonga' is now on sets. He carries a major responsibility on his shoulders to make this film also a big hit and complete his double hattrick. This film is bound to satisfy one and all as it has universal appeal with lot of entertainment stuffed into it.
Home production:
He is making the film better than all his previous films not just for the reason to achieve the double hattrick but it is his home production. The film is presented by Rama Rajamouli and produced by Cherry & Urmila Gunnam on the banner of Viswamitra Creations owned by the director himself.
Hattrick combination:
Another highlight of the film is that it is hatrick combination for director S.S. Rajamouli with NTR, whose earlier films Student No.1 and Simhadri were blockbusters in Tollywood. Hence the expectations on the film are very high and the entire team of Yama Donga has no doubts that he will deliver it in style.
Mohanbabu as Yama:
Also the film has a noteworthy star cast with the biggest names in Tollywood, including Padma Shri Dr M. Mohan Babu, who is playing an equally important role as the hero and is bound to create waves with his performance in the prestigious character of Yamadharma Raju. Senior artiste Khushboo is playing the wife of Yama, opposite Dr Mohanbabu.
Glamorous stars:
Apart from this, the film has six heroines '€” Priyamani, Mamatha Mohandas, Rambha, Preethi Jhingania, Navneet Kaur, Archana (Veda). '€” Perhaps this is the only film in Telugu were the hero shakes a leg with these many heroines in a single film, which makes the silver screen spicy. The other important artistes are Dr. Brahmanandam, Ali, M.S. Narayana, Raghubabu, Jayaprakash Reddy, Rajiv Kanakala and others. Narendra Jha, who played the role of Baji Rao in the film 'Chatrapathi', is the main villain of the movie.
Keeravani outperforms:
Viswamitra Creations did not compromise on any issues and wants to make a mark in the international market. Music would take the cake among all the other highlights of the movie. Music director MM Keeravani outperformed in providing soul stirring music. The audio compromises of six songs and four bit songs and is all set for release first week of July. Keeravani, who says he is one of the fans of Daler Mehendi, made the latter to sing a song for the film, the first by the singer in a south Indian language. Another speciality is that NTR and Mamata Mohan Das personally rendered a hit number of the late NT Rama Rao in 'Yamagola' for a remix by Keeravani and they themselves danced to the tune in the film
Spectacular EFX:
A team of 80 professionals spread over three outsourcing houses spearheaded by EFX are working on the graphics and the producers are confident of coming out with the most impressive visuals. Mr. Adel Eddelli, a professional from Iran, who has contributed heavily in the Hollywood films too, handled some important scenes for Yamadonga.
Graphics, a visual treat:
Added to these, the graphics of this film are also bound to a visual treat to the eyes of the audience. The production house and the director have ensured qualities of high standard and are very confident that this film will be on par with Hollywood and they are sure that this film will be enjoyed even by the foreigners and Hindi speaking audience too, purely because of the fact that the plot is a very interesting one in the form of a socio fantasy subject.
Techical glitz:
Cinematographer KK Senthil Kumar is all praise for Ananda Sai, the art director, who was given a free hand by the producers and the director to light up the sets in a tasteful way. Though the cost of the film had gone up substantially because of his excellent lighting schemes, the producers have no qualms about it as it enhanced the richness of the film.
Biggest indoor set in Asia:
Here comes the major news for the film. Yama Donga, the most eagerly awaited premium product of Tollywood, is by far the costliest movies made in the Telugu film industry. This film could proudly say that it has the biggest-ever indoor set erected so far in whole of Asia and incidentally it is the costliest individual set. At least 300 workers worked on the set day and night over period of 90 days to erect the mighty 'Yama Lokam' set in Ramoji Film City. The magnitude of the set was so much that it took almost one and half month to dismantle. It is further surprising to mention that the number of shooting days in this set was a mere 42 days. Apart from this, a few other sets were erected for canning of four songs, the set of the Hero House and the Heroine House are also done with a lot of grandeur.
