Ala vaikunthapurramuloo

 

tarring	Allu Arjun Pooja Hegde Tabu Jayaram Sushanth Nivetha Pethuraj
Cinematography	P. S. Vinod
Edited by	Naveen Nooli
Music by	S. Thaman
Production companies	Geetha Arts Haarika & Hassine Creations
Distributed by	Geetha Arts
Release date	12 January 2020
Running time	165 minutes[1]
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹100 crore[2]
Box office	est. ₹262 crore[3]

Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo^{[note 1]} (pronounced [ala vaɪ̯kuṇʈʰapuramu loː]), (transl. There in Vaikunthapuram) is a 2020 Indian Telugu-language action drama film^[5][6] written and directed by Trivikram Srinivas, and produced by Allu Aravind and S. Radha Krishna under their banners Geetha Arts and Haarika & Hassine Creations.^[7] The film stars Allu Arjun and Pooja Hegde, alongside Tabu, Jayaram, Sushanth, and Nivetha Pethuraj. Samuthirakani, Murali Sharma, Navdeep, Sunil, Sachin Khedekar, Harsha Vardhan, and Rajendra Prasad play other supporting roles.^[8]

The plot follows Bantu (Allu Arjun) who is hated and neglected by his father Valmiki (Sharma). Bantu later learns that he was swapped as an infant and his biological father is an affluent businessman, Ramachandra (Jayaram). Bantu enters Ramachandra's house, Vaikuntapuram to protect his biological family when it is threatened by an influential man. The idea of swapping infants was earlier attempted in Vedantam Raghavaiah's Inti Guttu (1958), starring N. T. Rama Rao and Savitri.^[9]

Production of the film began on April 2019, and wrapped up within December 2019. It was filmed across Hyderabad, with songs being shot in overseas. The film features soundtrack composed by S. Thaman, while cinematography and editing were handled by P. S. Vinod and Naveen Nooli, respectively. After premiering in the United States on 11 January 2020, the film was released theatrically on 12 January, coinciding with Sankranti, along with its dubbed Malayalam version titled as Angu Vaikuntapurathu.

The film opened to positive reviews, with critics praising Allu Arjun and Murali Sharma's performances, Trivikram's writing and direction and Thaman's music and film’s score. The film was commercially successful and with a gross ₹262.05 crore (US$35 million), it ended up as one of the highest-grossing Telugu films, and also one of the highest grossing Indian films in 2020.^[8] It also became one of the highest-grossing Telugu films in the United States, collecting more than $3 million upon release.^[10][11] According to box-office tracking portal Box Office Mojo, the film has grossed US$28.47 million, making it the fifty-third highest-grossing film of 2020 worldwide.^[12] The film won ten South Indian International Movie Awards, including Best Film – Telugu.