Tevar

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Tevar
File:Tevar Official Poster.jpg
Theatrical poster
Directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma
Produced by Boney Kapoor
Sanjay Kapoor
Sunil Lulla
Naresh Agarwal
Sunil Manchanda
Written by Shantanu Srivastava
(Dialogue)
Screenplay by Amit Sharma
Shantanu Srivastava
Story by Gunasekhar
Based on Okkadu
by Gunasekhar
Starring Arjun Kapoor
Sonakshi Sinha
Manoj Bajpayee
Music by Songs:
Sajid-Wajid
Imran Khan
Background Score:
Clinton Cerejo
Cinematography Laxman Utekar
Edited by Deepak Seju
Production
company
Sanjay Kapoor Entertainment Pvt.Ltd
Distributed by Eros International Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
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  • 9 January 2015 (2015-01-09)
Running time
159 minutes
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget 85 crore (US$13 million)[1]
Box office est. 56 crore (US$8.3 million)[2]

Tevar (English: Attitude) is a 2015 Indian action film directed by Amit Sharma and written by Gunasekhar. The film stars Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj Bajpayee and Rajesh Sharma in lead roles. It is a remake of the 2003 Telugu film Okkadu which also has been remade successfully in Tamil as Ghilli. This film was released on 9 January 2015 and met with mixed to negative reviews from critics and flopped at the box office.[3][4]

Plot

Pintoo (Arjun Kapoor) is a young Kabbadi player who goes to factionism-hit Mathura to take part in practice. There, in a twist of fate, he saves Radhika (Sonakshi Sinha) from Gajendar Singh (Manoj Bajpayee), a dangerous faction leader, who is in love with Radhika and wants to marry her against her wishes. Pintoo tries to comfort her because Gajendar Singh killed her brother. When he saves Radhika, he humiliates Gajendar into taking his pants off. Ganjendar refuses to put them back on until someone finds Radhika and brings her back. Pintoo helps Radhika escape and takes her to his house in Agra, hiding her in his room with the help of his sister, Pinky (Gunjan Malhotra).

Soon, his parents find out she is hiding in their house. Radhika and Pintoo run away again and she falls in love with him. The next day, after taking care of Gajendar and his men, Pintoo and his friends drop Radhika off at the airport to go to America. Radhika cries on the way there, not wanting to leave Pintoo. They bring her parents to see her one last time before she leaves. After Radhika is past airport security, Pintoo realizes he loves Radhika. She shows up behind him, saying that she was waiting for him to stop her. She turns to leave when Pintoo is silent, taking it as a refusal, but Pintoo calls her back, and they confirm their love with a hug.

Pintoo's police chief father (Raj Babbar) and Gajendar show up at the airport, and Pintoo's father arrests him while Gajendar takes Radhika away. While under Gajendar's jurisdiction, Radhika taunts him and says that Pintoo will definitely come for her. Gajendar goes to the jail and asks Pintoo to come with him. Here, Pintoo and his father solve their relationship, when Pintoo's father expresses that he's not worried Pintoo will come home hurt; rather, he's worried for Gajendar.

Gajendar and his men get Pintoo injured in front of the whole town. The Home Minister, who is the reason Gajendar has not gotten in trouble all this time, tells him to stop making a scene, as he's ruining his political party, but Gajendar slaps the minister and goes on to fight Pintoo. He is further enraged when he sees how much Radhika loves Pintoo, and stabs him with a knife. Pintoo falls to the ground. Radhika tries to run to him, crying his name, but Gajendar drags her away. Pintoo is able to get up again, picking up the scarf that Radhika dropped. He ties it around his waist where the knife wound is, and fights and defeats Gajender's men. He also defeats Gajender until Gajendar gets back up with a gun. However, he is shot down by Kakdi, his own right-hand man on the instructions of the Home Minister who has had enough of Gajender's antics and insubordination and it is implied that Kakdi has now been appointed as Gajender's replacement. With Gajender dead, his goons have no interest in Pintoo and Radhika who are reunited and go home and they get married.

Cast

Production

In November 2013, it was reported that Arjun Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha had joined an upcoming untitled film that was being produced by Boney Kapoor. On 10 December 2013, the film was titled Tevar and it was revealed that Kapoor will play the role of a college student from Agra, who is a Kabaddi champion.[5] On 17 December 2013 it was announced that Sanjay Kapoor will be producing the film, and that Amit Sharma will be making his directorial debut.[6] Manoj Bajpayee also joined the film on 30 December.[7][8]

Filming

The shooting of the film began on 21 January 2014 at Sambhar Lake in Jaipur, Rajasthan.[9] The film's shooting continued in different locations including Mumbai, Maheshwar, Agra, Mathura, Pandharpur at river side of Chandrabhaga and also in Haridas ves in Pandharpur (solapur, Maharashtra) Akluj (Solapur, Maharashtra).[8]

Remakes & character map

Okkadu (2003)
(Telugu)
Ghilli (2004)
(Tamil)
Ajay (2006)
(Kannada)
Jor (2008)
(Bengali)
Tevar (2015)
(Hindi)
Ajay
(Mahesh Babu)
Saravanavelu
(Vijay)
Ajay
(Puneeth Rajkumar)
Surja
(Jeetendra Madnani)
Pintoo Shukla
(Arjun Kapoor)
Swapna Reddy
(Bhumika Chawla)
Dhanalakshmi
(Trisha Krishnan)
Paddu
(Anuradha Mehta)
Sumi
(Barsha Priyadarshini)
Radhika Mishra
(Sonakshi Sinha)
Obul Reddy
(Prakash Raj)
Muthupandi
(Prakash Raj)

(Prakash Raj)
Indrajit
(Subrat Dutta)
Gajendar Singh
(Manoj Bajpai)
Ajay's father
(Mukesh Rishi)
Sivasubramanian
(Ashish Vidyarthi)
(Nassar) Surja's father
(Deepankar De)
S. P. Shukla
(Raj Babbar)

Soundtrack

Tevar
Soundtrack album by
Released 10 December 2014 (2014-12-10)
Genre Feature Film Soundtrack
Label Eros Music
Sajid-Wajid chronology
Daawat-e-Ishq
(2014)Daawat-e-Ishq2014
Tevar
(2015)
Dolly Ki Doli
(2015)
Imran Khan chronology
Tevar
(2015)

Dolly Ki Doli2015

The soundtrack was composed by duo Sajid-Wajid. International singer Imran Khan made his Bollywood debut with this film. The lyrics were written by Kausar Munir, Danish Sabri, Sajid and Imran Khan.[10] Prior to the soundtrack's full release, "Superman" was released as the lead single, followed by "Let's Celebrate".

Track listing

No. Title Lyrics Music Singer(s) Length
1. "Superman"   Kausar Munir, Danish Sabri, Sajid Sajid-Wajid Wajid 04:37
2. "Radha Nachegi"   Kausar Munir, Danish Sabri Sajid-Wajid Ritu Pathak, Shabab Sabri, Danish Sabri 06:32
3. "Let's Celebrate"   Imran Khan Imran Khan Imran Khan 03:17
4. "Joganiyan"   Kausar Munir Sajid-Wajid Shruti Haasan  
5. "Madamiyan"   Kausar Munir Sajid-Wajid Mika Singh, Mamta Sharma  
6. "Main Nai Jaana Pardes"   Kausar Munir, Traditional Sajid-Wajid Shafqat Amanat Ali  
7. "Superman (Remix)"   Kausar Munir, Danish Sabri, Sajid Sajid-Wajid Mika Singh  
8. "Tevariffic (Mashup)"   Kausar Munir, Danish Sabri, Sajid Sajid-Wajid Arjun Kapoor, Wajid, Ritu Pathak, Shabab Sabri, Danish Sabri, Imran Khan, Shruti Haasan, Mika Singh, Mamta Sharma, Shafqat Amanat Ali  

Critical reception

Tevar was rated low by most critics. Raja Sen of Rediff rated the film 1 and wrote, "And since one can’t, in all good conscience, let anyone stray into Gangs Of Jockeypur, consider yourselves warned. Stay away"[11] Saurabh Dwivedi of India Today said "The film becomes a watch because of its power packed dialogues written by Shantanu Shrivastava."[12]

References

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  3. "Tevar: 1st Monday Box Office Collections". Koimoi. 13 January 2015
  4. Tevar. boxofficeindia.com
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  11. "Review: Tevar is a tiring watch". Rediff. 9 January 2015.
  12. Saurabh Dwivedi (9 January 2015) "Tevar review: Weak story covered up with power packed dialogues". intoday.in.

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