Azad (2000)
Azad (Telugu: ఆజాద్) is a 2000 Telugu film directed by Tirupathi Swamy. It stars Akkineni Nagarjuna in the lead role and Raghuvaran, Shilpa Shetty, and Soundarya in other important roles. C. Ashwini Dutt produced the film and Mani Sharma composed music. The film was released on 29 September 2000 and was dubbed into Hindi as Mission Azaad. The film was later remade into Tamil as Velayudham. The story was inspired from 1989 hindi film Main Azaad Hoon in which Amitabh Bachchan played the lead role of Azaad.
Director:
Tirupathi Swamy
Writers:
Yandamuri Veerendranath, Bhupati Raja.
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Nagarjuna Akkineni as Chandra Sekhar Azad |
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Raghuvaran as Deva / CBI Officer Vishwanath / Harkat Ul Ansari Dawood |
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Soundarya as Anjali |
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Shilpa Shetty Kundra as Kanaka Mahalakshmi |
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Prakash Raj as Inspector Salim |
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Tanikella Bharani as Kanaka Raju |
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L. B. Sriram as Sastry |
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Sujitha as Kaveri |
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Banerjee as Benarjee |
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Brahmanandam as |
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Kalairani as |
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Sujitha as |
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Nutan Prasad as |
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Raghunatha Reddy as |
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Ananth Babu as |
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Venu Madhav as |
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Dharmavarupu Subramanyam as |
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M. S. Narayana as |
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Narsing Yadav as |
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Chitti Babu as |
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Gundu Hanumantha Rao as |
| Directing | Tirupathi Swamy | Director |
| Production | C. Ashwini Dutt | Producer |
| Crew | Chota K. Naidu | Cinematography |
| Sound | Mani Sharma | Music |
| Writing | Tirupathi Swamy | Story |
| Editing | Marthand K Venkatesh | Editor |
| Writing | Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri | Dialogue |
| Writing | Gopalakrishna Paruchuri | Dialogue |
| Writing | Yandamuri Veerendranath | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bhupati Raja | Screenplay |