Guntur Kaaram (2024) on Netflix
Left behind when his mother Vasundhara remarried, Ramana now trades red chilies in Guntur. Her father wants him to sign away their bloodline ties, but Ramana demands to meet her first.
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Plot summary
In 1998 Guntur, a feud between factionists Dokka Marx Babu and Lenin Babu leaves Satyam's red-chili factory burned and Satyam taking the legal blame for a killing, his son Veera Venkata Ramana blinded in one eye, and his wife Vasundhara gone to Hyderabad to marry her cousin Narayana. Twenty-five years on, Vasundhara is Law Minister of Andhra Pradesh in her father Vyra Venkata Swamy's party, and an election is near. When rival politician Kata Madhu digs into her past, Venkata Swamy offers Ramana money to sign a legal disclaimer cutting all bloodline ties to his mother. Ramana, a chilli trader in Guntur, refuses unless he can meet her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Guntur Kaaram (2024)
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- Guntur Kaaram was promoted as an action thriller, but after the first schedule, reports of conflicts among crew members and the cast led to a pause and a reworked script. Director Trivikram Srinivas then turned it into a family entertainer, departing from the action-thriller narrative.
- Pooja Hegde was initially cast as the female lead opposite Mahesh Babu, but schedule conflicts made her opt out and Sreeleela replaced her. Sreeleela had been signed for the second female role, so Meenakshi Chaudhary took over that part.
- The production built a house set at Shankarpalli in Hyderabad at a cost of ₹10 crore during the film's shoot.
- Cinematographer P. S. Vinod left Guntur Kaaram after more than 50% of the film had been shot, owing to creative differences, and Manoj Paramahamsa was announced as his replacement.
