Lingaraju alias Bujji (Prabhas) and Chitti (Trisha) are best friends since childhood. Due to a small clash between them, Chitti tells him that she will not be seeing him for 12 years. Later Bujji runs away from home and reaches Chennai. After 12 years, he comes back to AP in search of her. Did he meet her? Will they love each other forms the rest of the story.
Trade
Puri Jagannath was on a hit streak then with back to back hits like Pokiri, Desamudhuru and Chirutha. Expectations were high on the movie but Puri had let down the fans and audience. At last the movie turned to be an average grosser at the box office.
Highlights
This is the first combination of Prabhas and Puri Jagannath. Later they did Ek Niranjan in 2009.
This is the third movie of hit pair Prabhas and Trisha. They have earlier paired up for Varsham and Pournami.
Prabhas plays a fan of Rajinikanth in the movie.
Collection King Mohan Babu had done a special role in the movie as heroine’s brother.
Sidelights
The film has been dubbed into Tamil as Kumaran Rajini Rasigan. This movie is dubbed in Hindi as Deewar-Man of Power.
Superstar Rajnikanth launched the audio of Bujjigadu at the Andhra Club in Chennai.
Bujjigadu was a sort of image makeover for Prabhas. His dialogue delivery, diction, body language made him dearer to the masses.
The shooting of the movie was stalled immediately after a few days as differences arose between the director and Producer over the former’s remuneration, but later resumed.