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Naga Chaitanya, Venkat Prabhu, and Srinivasaa Chitturi's bilingual film 'Custody' glimpse unleashed...!

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Naga Chaitanya’s Telugu-Tamil bilingual project directed by leading filmmaker Venkat Prabhu went on the floors a couple of months back. The film titled Custody has Krithi Shetty as the female lead. Arvind Swami playing the antagonist role while Priyamani will be seen in a powerful role. The film also stars Sampath Raj, Sarathkumar, Premji, Vennela Kishore, Premi Vishwanath, among others.

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The makers recently announced the grand release date for the movie. And the film is releasing worldwide on May 12, 2023. Welcoming the grand new year 2023, today makers unveiled a special glimpse.


The first glimpse of this movie has all the elements needed to excite audience and fans of Naga Chaitanya. The teaser begins with a gripping background score and aerial shots. The reversed cars blast and immediately Naga Chaitanya gets into action delivering punches and kicks on the villains.

Viewers get to witness Naga Chaitanya in massiest avatar and the glimpse is loaded with action elements and a ferocious look of Chay in the end. Ilaiyaraaja and Yuvan Shankar Raja scored thumping and breathtaking background music. Cinematography is spell-bounding.

Venkat Prabhu once again showcased his technical brilliance and the video gives the adrenaline rush. He is also known for unique taglines for his film and the tagline for Custody is 'A Venkat Prabhu Hunt.' Dishing out more than what fans would have expected, the makers are readying up to release it in theatres worldwide on May 12, 2023.

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Custody is one of the most expensive films in the career of the Akkineni hero. Srinivasaa Chitturi is producing the film in prestigious manner under Srinivasaa Silver Screen banner. The film's ensemble cast and brilliant technical team are currently busy with filming. The film is being made with high production values and technical standards. Pavan Kumar is presenting this ambitious project. Abburi Ravi penned the dialogues while SR Kathir is handling the cinematography.

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Ten lesser known facts about Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi

As the Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur announced on Sunday that the Indian Film Personality of the Year award will be conferred upon Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi. The prestigious award was announced during the inauguration of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here.

In a career spanning nearly four decades, Chiranjeevi has acted in more than 150 films, primarily in the Telugu film industry. On this occasion, ETimes has compiled a list of ten lesser-known facts about the Telugu Megastar Chiranjeevi.

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Shiva Shankara Vara Prasad (popularly known as Chiranjeevi) was an NCC cadet and participated in the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi in the early 19'70s. His photos in NCC dress often surf the Internet.

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Chiranjeevi started his film career with an award-winning film Punadhirallu directed by Gudapati Rajkumar. However, his first released film was ‘Pranam Khareedu’ hence people know Konidela Shiva Shankara vara Prasad as Chiranjeevi with ‘Pranam Khareed’ therefore his first film is often known as ‘Pranam Khareedu’.

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Yes, He played the anti-hero in films such as I Love You and K. Balachander's Idi Katha Kaadu, starring Kamal Haasan. In a remake of the Tamil film Avargal, Chiranjeevi portrayed the character played by Rajinikanth in the original. He played the lead antagonist in works such as Mosagadu, Rani Kasula Rangamma, 47 Natkal /47 Rojulu, Nyayam Kavali and Ranuva Veeran.

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Yes, As both Rajinikanth and Chiranjeevi were trained at the same acting school as Madras Film Institute. If Rajinikanth got graduated from the MFI in 1973, and Chiranjeevi got graduated in the 1977 batch, In that sense, both of them have become film superstars whereas Rajinikanth is still his senior at the film Institute.

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Unlike several Telugu actors, Chiranjeevi trailed his acting skills in Other languages too. Though it is very common for Tamil actors to act in Telugu films. It is very uncommon for Telugu actors with an exception. Chiranjeevi has acted in Tamil in 47 Natkal, Ranuva Veeran, Mappila and Engal Swamy Ayyappan. Hindi in Pratibandth, Aaj Ka Goonda Raj, 'The Gentleman' while in Kannada in Sipayi and Sri Manjunatha.

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In 1979, Chiranjeevi had eight major film releases and then 14 films in the following year 1980. Even in the following years, he had no less than 10 movies and again in 1983 he had 14 film releases a year.

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Yes, His 1987 film Swayamkrushi directed by K.Viswanath premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival. The following year he co-produced a film called Rudraveena (1988), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.

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Chiranjeevi's 1992 film Gharana Mogudu, is often said to be the first south Indian film to collect over ₹10 crores at the South Indian box office.

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Post the super success of his film SwayamKrushi, Chiranjeevi is said to have become the highest-paid actor in India at the time catapulting him to the cover pages of national weekly magazines in India. The entertainment magazines Filmfare and India Today named him "Bigger than Bachchan", a reference to Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan. News magazine The Week hailed him as "the new money machine".

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