Winner (2017 film)

Winner
Winner
S. Thaman chronology

Winner
Winner
	Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions; Leo Productions
Release date	24 February 2017;
Running time	150 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Winner is a 2017 Indian

S. Thaman.^[1]

Production began in March 2016 [2] and principal photography commenced in August 2016 in Hyderabad, other shooting locations included Kyiv, Lviv, Istanbul, Ooty and Bangalore.^[3]^[4]^[5] The film was released worldwide on 24 February 2017.

Plot

Dharmendra Reddy is a business magnate, whose only son, Mahendra Reddy, is one of the best jockey in the country, who leaves the house after marrying his love interest Lakshmi against Dharmendra's wishes. Mahendra leads a happy life, after some time Lakshmi dies giving birth to a baby boy Siddharth Reddy / Siddu, from that time Mahendra was everything to him both of are bound in a doting love bondage. After his son left the house Dharmendra Reddy's business comes almost to zero level, so he has no other choice except to get back his son. After that he decides to separate Siddu from his father, therefore he constructs a barrier between them and separates them by a meticulous plan of making remarriage to his son with his friend's daughter and makes Siddu forcibly to run away from home.

Siddu grows up to be a father-hater, and works as a creative head of a newspaper and also has a grudge on races and horses. On another hand, for several years Mahendra relentless tries to find Siddu. Siddu falls in love with Sitara, but learns that her goal to become a successful athlete to win National Championship in running race that's why she under the training by bluffing to her parents that she is studying. While he tries to impress her she shows aversion towards him. Due to this, a drunk Siddhu meddles with her life by revealing her secret to her father Rajeev Reddy. So he immediately settles her marriage with a Best Jockey. Siddu also reaches to the marriage where Sitara comes up with a plan to escape the marriage that she is loving Siddu and introduces him as a number one jockey.

Sithara wants to conduct a race between them and she will marry the person will win it. In between the quarrel, Mahendra Reddy arrives and shocking says the jockey as his separated son Siddharth Reddy and accepts the challenge. Siddu is confused with this incident, where he kidnaps Dharmendra Reddy's

PA

and Siddu is flabbergasted, realizing that the person is Aadhi, an assassin and jockey, who impersonates and settles with his family on the orders of Dharmendra Reddy to stop unnecessary expenditure in the search of the separated son. Siddu decides to take up the challenge by becoming a professional jockey. Siddu manages to gain Sitara love by helping her to participate and win the National Championship. Siddhu also wins the race and reunites with his father (who has learnt the truth from Dharmendra Reddy's PA), and thrashes Aadhi. Dharmendra Reddy realizes his mistake and reunites with Siddu and Mahendra, thus becoming a Winner in challenge and life.

Cast

Sai Dharam Tej
as Siddharth Reddy
Rakul Preet Singh as Sitara
Jagapati Babu
as Mahendra Reddy
Thakur Anoop Singh as Aadhi (Duplicate Siddharth Reddy)
Mukesh Rishi as Dharmendra Reddy
Aadarsh Balakrishna as Rich kid
Priyadarshi Pullikonda
Ali as Horseman Babu / Peter Hens
Vennela Kishore as Padma
Pruthviraj
as Singham Sujatha
Raghu Babu as Dharmendra Reddy's P.A.
Suresh as Rajeev Reddy, Sitara's father
Raghu Karumanchi
Mukhtar Khan as K.R.
Shekar
Rakesh Varre
Apoorva Srinivasan as Lakshmi
Surya
Sivanarayana
Bithiri Sathi as himself
Ranam Venu as Constable
Duvvasi Mohan as Constable
Kalyani as Lakshmi (Mahendra Reddy's first wife)
Sonia Agarwal as Mahendra Reddy's wife
Priya as Rajeev Reddy's wife and Sitara's mother
Hari Teja as Hariteja
special appearance
in a song)
Mouryani as Lakshmi (Mahendra Reddy's daughter)
Master Charith as Young Siddu

Soundtrack

Music composed by

S. Thaman

. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Track-List
No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Sitara"	Bhaskarabhatla Ravi Kumar	Nakash Aziz, Sharmila, Anthara	4:16
5.	"Bhajarangabali"	Ramajogayya Sastry	M. L. R. Karthikeyan, Naveen Madhav, SriKrishna, Aditya Iyengar, Sarath Santhosh, Hymath, Arun	4:46
Total length:				22:18

References

^ "Winner (Sai Dharam Tej's New Film)". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
^ "Sai Dharam Tej - Gopichand Malineni film kicks off". Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ "Rakul and Sai Dharam Tej start shooting for next". 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2024 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.
^ https://www.eoiukraine.gov.in/cultural.php Archived 28 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine Cultural
^ kavirayani, suresh (2 December 2016). "Baahubali action choreographer for Winner". www.deccanchronicle.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.

External links

Winner at
IMDb

[1] "Winner (Sai Dharam Tej's New Film)". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2016.

[2] "Sai Dharam Tej - Gopichand Malineni film kicks off". Archived from the original on 23 August 2019. Retrieved 30 August 2016.

[3] "Rakul and Sai Dharam Tej start shooting for next". 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2024 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.

[4] ttps://www.eoiukraine.gov.in/cultural.php Archived 28 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine Cultural

[5] virayani, suresh (2 December 2016). "Baahubali action choreographer for Winner". www.deccanchronicle.com. Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.

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