Badrinath (alternatively spelled as Badrenath)[4] is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film directed by V. V. Vinayak and produced by Allu Aravind.

[5][6] It stars Allu Arjun as the titular samurai, along with Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji, Ashwini Kalsekar, Rakesh Varre, Rao Ramesh and Pragathi.

[10] Bheeshma Narayan is a religious guru and martial arts expert, who selects Badri, a shepherd's son, and trains him into becoming an efficient samurai and the protector of Badrinath Temple.

He soon meets Alakananda, an atheist woman whom he throws into the namesake river as a punishment for blowing a lamp at the temple, especially after he cured her ill grandfather.

Alakananda is heartbroken, but Badri promises to unite her with her lover, not knowing it is him, by helping her offer a Brahma lotus, to retrieve which they travel into the mountains.

Allu Arjun played a modern-day Indian samurai in the film, for which he underwent intensive martial arts and swordfighting training in Vietnam.

However, this plan was abandoned due to the commercial failure of the Tamil dubbed versions of the Telugu films Sakthi and Magadheera.

Noting it as a love story from a girl's point of view, Idlebrain.com gave the film 3 stars out of 5, praising Arjun, the music, cinematography, locations, art direction and production values.

However, he felt the director failed to get a good script, action and emotional aspects right, further noting the film's unfolding and narration were "not gripping".

However, the reviewer felt disappointed with the story, screenplay, entire second half, criticizing the villain, a comedy scene involving conversation about Rajinikanth and Chiranjeevi, the random placement of songs and the climax.

[25] Rediff.com responded more negatively with a 1.5/5 star rating, calling the plot unoriginal and feeling the romance was overshadowed by the action, cinematography and other aspects.

More criticism was aimed at the script, randomly inserted songs and humor, while praise came towards the action sequences, technical aspects, art direction, production values and performances.