Jabardasth is a 2013 Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions. It stars Siddharth and Samantha Ruth Prabhu with Nithya Menen in an important role. The film released on 22 February 2013 and was commercially successful at the box office.
The film is heavily inspired by 2010 Hindi film Band Baaja Baaraat. Yash Raj Films, producers of the Hindi film, claimed that Jabardasth is an unofficial remake and planned to take legal action against its makers.
Plot
This movie shows how business partners fell in love gradually.
Cast
Siddharth as Bairraju
Samantha Ruth Prabhu as Shreya
Nithya Menen as Saraswati
Srihari as Javed Ibrahim
Raghu Babu as Raghu Bairraju's friend
Sayaji Shinde as Bihar Yadav
Pragathi as Shreya's mother
Thagubothu Ramesh as Ramesh
Vennela Kishore as Software Subramanyam
Suresh as Vamshi Krishna
Arjunan
Dharmavarapu Subramanyam
Telangana Shakuntala
Dhanraj
Y. Kasi Viswanath
Nalla Venu
Duvvasi Mohan
Kadambari
Geeta Bhagat
Sushma
Seeta Reddy
Swapnika Reddy
Prince Cecil as cameo appearance
Soundtrack
The film's audio was launched on 1 February 2013. It was attended by Surender, Samantha, Thaman, Siddharth, Srihari and Sunil with V. V. Vinayak being the chief guest.
Release
The film's satellite and audio telecast rights were sold for 5.25 crores.
Critical reception
Reception
Idlebrain.com's Jeevi gave a rating of 3/5 for the film. Rediff wrote:"First half was fun but second half was dragged".