Cracker) is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film written and directed by debutant Anil Ravipudi and produced by Nandamuri Kalyan Ram under his banner N.T.R.
The film revolves around Kalyan Sinha, a corrupt police officer, who gets himself transferred to Hyderabad, where his estranged father, Murali Krishna, is serving as the DGP.
Kalyan hates his father and intends to teach him a lesson, and in the process, supports a local MP and criminal named GK.
Releasing theatrically on 23 January 2015, Pataas received positive reviews from critics and turned out to be Kalyan Ram's second most successful film at the box office after Athanokkade.
Kalyan Sinha is a corrupt IPS officer who gets himself transferred to Hyderabad as ACP and misuses his power to gain monetary benefits in unorthodox methods.
Nani and his friends are released from jail, and Kalyan plans to kill all of them with the help of an old NRI turned actor Tsunami star Subhash.
Subhash enters the spot, disguised as a taxi driver, and presents himself as a witness to that accident, citing drunk being the reason behind those two deaths.
They reach the same spot where Murali was killed, and after being severely assaulted by Kalyan, the duo is made to sit in a car on which petrol is poured.
Anil Ravipudi worked with Santosh Srinivas in the latter's directorial debut Kandireega (2011) as a writer and wrote this film's script.
[7] Reports of Ravipudi making his directorial debut by collaborating with Kalyan Ram emerged in late March 2014 and Pre-production work was in progress.
[12] Ravipudi said in an interview that the film runs in the pattern of Singam (2010) with Telugu nativity and is about a corrupt cop who changes for the good, adding that it would be an image makeover for Kalyan Ram.
[17] N. T. Rama Rao Jr. was rumored to make a cameo appearance in the remix of the song Arey O Samba which remained unconfirmed.
[24] The Remixed version of the song Arey O Samba was shot on Kalyan Ram and Shruti Sodhi at Hyderabad in early November 2014.
[28] Karthik initially wanted to retain the background music of the original in the remixed version but later modified them to a small extent.
[33] Actors N. T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ravi Teja along with directors Puri Jagannadh and Surender Reddy among others attended the audio launch event held at Hyderabad along with the film's cast and crew.
[35] A case was filed against the movie and the film makers for the inappropriate usage of the national Emblem of India in the title logo.