Style (2006 film)

Style
Directed by	Raghava Lawrence
Produced by	Lagadapati Sirisha Sridhar
Written by	Kulashekar(Telugu dialogues) V. Prabhakar (Tamil dialogues)
Screenplay by	Raghava Lawrence
Story by	Raghava Lawrence
Starring	Prabhu Deva Raghava Lawrence Charmme Kaur Raja Kamalinee Mukherjee
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Kabir Lal
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Production company	Larsco Entertainments
Release dates	12 January 2006
Running time	2:39:06
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Style is a Telugu film produced by Lagadapati Sirisha Sridhar on Larsco Entertainment banner, directed by Raghava Lawrence. Starring Prabhu Deva, Raghava Lawrence, Raja, Kamalinee Mukherjee, and Charmme Kaur in lead roles, with Chiranjeevi and Nagarjuna Akkineni in cameo appearance, the film's music is composed by Mani Sharma. This is Lawrence's second directorial venture after the blockbuster Mass with Nagarjuna. The movie was a moderate success at the box office and Lawrence won the Filmfare Award for Best Dance Choreographer - South. The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Lakshyam.

Plot

Ganesh (Prabhu Deva) is a famous dancer and he beats Anthony in a dance competition to head into the international arena. Infuriated, Anthony arranges an accident for Ganesh in which Ganesh loses his legs and can't dance anymore. He becomes depressed and wants to die but his sister Priya (Kamalinee Mukherjee) consoles him and tells him to teach someone who could get benefited.

Ganesh starts his search for a competent dancer and finds about Raghava (Raghava Lawrence), who works as a cleaning boy at a dance school in Vizag. Ganesh comes to know about him and his four friends and makes them his students. The rest of the movie revolves around their training and budding love between Priya and Raghava. Finally Raghava and his batch defeat Anthony's batch on the dance floor. The movie ends with a film offer to Raghava, given by actor Chiranjeevi (Chiranjeevi).

Cast

• Chiranjeevi as himself (cameo)
• Akkineni Nagarjuna as Mass (cameo)
• Prabhu Deva as Ganesh
• Raghava Lawrence as Raghava
• Raja as Raja
• Suman as Anchor (cameo)
• Bhanu Chander as Raghava's dad
• Nasimharaju as Doctor
• Surya (Ping Pong)
• Jayasudha as Raghava's mother
• Kamalinee Mukherjee as Priya
• Charmy Kaur as Shruti

Soundtrack

Style
Film score by Mani Sharma
Released	2006
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	31:46
Label	Madhura Entertainment
Producer	Mani Sharma
Mani Sharma chronology
Ranam (2005) Style (2006) Veerabhadra (2006)

The music was composed by Mani Sharma. All songs are hit tracks. Music released on MADHURA Entertainment Music Company.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Style Style"	Madhu	Ravi Varma	4:39
2.	"Yedalo Yedo"	Vishwa	Karthik	5:07
3.	"Rock & Roll"	Vishwa	KK	4:32
4.	"Thadava Thadavaku"	Chinni Charan	Karthik, Mahalakshmi Iyer	3:29
5.	"Chiru Cheyyesthe"	Madhu	Mano	4:16
6.	"Merupisaagara"	Chinni Charan	Karthik	4:38
7.	"Raa Raa"	Chinni Charan	Shankar Mahadevan	5:16
Total length:				31:46

Crew

• Director: Raghava Lawrence
• Screenplay: Raghava Lawrence
• Story: Raghava Lawrence
• Dialogue: Kulasekhar
• Producer: Mani Kanta Y
• Music: Mani Sharma
• Cinematography: Kabir Lal
• Editor: Marthand K. Venkatesh
• Art director: Ashok
• Choreography: Raghava Lawrence
• Hip-hop dancer: Shashikanth

Production and release

• Style was the highest budgeted dance-musical in India at the time of its release.
• It was the first south Indian film to be shot with Super 35 camera.
• Style was the first south Indian film to be color corrected.
• The producers, Sirisha and Sridhar Lagadapati, were approached by a distributor from a territory for Style. Since they were not eager to do business with him, it is said that they tried to dissuade him by quoting a then-exorbitant price for the movie. To their surprise, he immediately agreed and bought Style for his territory. The distributor thanks them even today since it was the only movie in a long time that had brought him profits.
• This film was dubbed in Tamil with the title Lakshyam.

Box office performance

The film had a 100-day run in 30 centres.

Awards

• Filmfare Award for Best Dance Choreographer - South - Lawrence Raghavendra (2006)

References

External links

Style at the Internet Movie Database