Kushi Movie Details:
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Genre | Comedy Drama Romance |
| Release date | 1 September 2023 |
| Running time | 2hr 45min |
| Certificate | U/A |
| Starring | Vijay Devarakonda Samantha |
| Directed by | Shiva Nirvana |
| Written by | Shiva Nirvana |
| Produced by | Naveen Yerneni Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar |
| Cinematography by | Murali G. |
| Edited by | Prawin Pudi |
| Music by | Hesham Abdul Wahab |
| Production Company | Mythri Movie Makers |
Kushi Movie Cast & Characters:
- Vijay Deverakonda as Lenin Viplav, aradhya’s husband
- Samantha as Aradhya “Aara” Rao / Aara Begum, Viplav’s wife (Voice dubbed by Chinmayi)
- Sachin Khedekar as Lenin Satyam, Viplav’s father
- Jayaram as Thomas, Zoya’s Husband
- Saranya Ponvannan as Rajalakshmi, Viplav’s mother
- Murali Sharma as Chadarangam Srinivasa Rao, aradhya’s father
- Lakshmi as Aradhya’s grandmother
- Rohini as Zoya, Viplav’s manager and Thomas’s Wife
- Shatru as Shanmukh, Aradhya’s brother-in-law
- Vennela Kishore as Pitobash, Viplav’s co-worker
- Rahul Ramakrishna as RK, Viplav’s friend
- Srikanth Iyengar as Chatur, aradhya’s boss
- Sharanya Pradeep as Deepu, aradhya’s friend
- Brahmanandam in a cameo appearance as a Swamiji
- Ali in a cameo appearance as Himalayan Bab
Storyline:
Viplav is an employee in BSNL who falls in love with Aradhya, a corporate professional in iLabs Centre and a Brahmin girl. Viplav and Aradhya get married against their parents’ wishes and soon faces relationship problems, along with insecurities, jealousy and other factors.
Kushi Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | ₹70 crore |
| Worldwide Collection | ₹71 crore |
About Kushi Movie:
In December 2019, it was announced that Shiva Nirvana would direct Vijay Deverakonda with Dil Raju producing it under Sri Venkateswara Creations.
The film was then formally launched in April 2022, under the tentative title #VD11 with Mythri Movie Makers producing the film. In May 2022, the film’s title was officially revealed to be Kushi.
Principal photography commenced in April 2022.
The first schedule that took place in Kashmir concluded in May 2022. The second schedule began in June 2022 and took place in Hyderabad, Vizag and Alappuzha. However, the filming got paused due to Samantha suffered from myositis.
The third schedule began in November 2022 with Deverakonda and the cast joined the sets and shot their portions of the film without Samantha.
The filming resumed in March 2023 when Samantha joined the sets of the film and had finally recovered from her disease.
Kushi was theatrically released on 1 September 2023. It was released in Telugu along with dubbed versions in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi languages. The film was initially scheduled to release in December 2022 but was pushed to February 2023 following production delays. The film was then again pushed to 1 September 2023.
Worldwide theatrical rights of the were sold at a cost of ₹52.5 crore (US$6.6 million). Post-theatrical streaming rights of the film were acquired by Netflix at a cost of ₹30 crore (US$3.8 million). The film started streaming on Netflix from 1 October 2023.
