Sita Ramam Movie Details:
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Genre | Action Drama Period Romance |
| Release date | 5 August 2022 |
| Running time | 2hr 41min |
| Certificate | U |
| Starring | Mrunal Thakur Dulquer Salman |
| Directed by | Hanu Raghavapudi |
| Screenplay by | Hanu Raghavapudi Rutham Sathar Jay Krishna Raj Kumar Kandamudi |
| Produced by | C. Aswani Dutt |
| Cinematography by | P. S. Vinod Shreyaas Krishna |
| Edited by | Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao |
| Music by | Vishal Chandrasekhar |
| Production Company | Vyjayanthi Movies Swapna Cinema |
| Distributor | Annapurna Studios Lyca Productions (Tamil Nadu) Wayfarer Films (Kerala) Pen Studios (North India) KVN Productions (Karnataka) |
Sita Ramam Movie Cast & Characters:
- Mrunal Thakur as Princess Noor Jahan / Sita Mahalakshmi, Ram’s love interest and Nawab’s younger sister (Voice dubbed by Chinmayi)
- Dulquer Salmaan as Lieutenant Ram, Princess Noor Jahan/ Sita Mahalakshmi’s love interest
- Rashmika Mandanna as Afreen / Waheeda (childhood name), Brigadier Abu Tariq’s granddaughter
- Sumanth as Brigadier Vishnu Sharma, Ram’s superior officer, and Vaidehi’s husband
- Tharun Bhascker as Balaji
- Sachin Khedekar as late Brigadier Abu Tariq (Pakistani Army), Afreen’s grandfather
- Gautham Vasudev Menon as Major Selvan
- Prakash Raj as Brigadier Y. K. Joshi
- Shatru as Lieutenant Vikas Varma, Ram’s friend in the Army
- Vennela Kishore as Durjoy Sharma, Ram’s friend
- Bhumika Chawla as Vaidehi Sharma, Vishnu’s wife
- Rukmini Vijayakumar as Prof. Rekha Bharadwaj
- Jisshu Sengupta as Nawab, Princess Noor Jahan’s elder brother
- Abhinaya as Noor Jahan’s sister-in-law
- Murali Sharma as Subramanyam
- Ashwath Bhatt as Ansari, a terrorist
- Tinnu Anand as Dr. Anand Mehta
- Sunil as Vaaradhi
- Priyadarshi Pulikonda as Journalist Marthandam
- Rohini as Vijayalakshmi
- Rahul Ravindran as Rahul Varma
- Pawan Chopra as General Musa Khan of the Pakistani Army
- Neeraj Kabi as Afreen’s family advocate
- Ananth Babu as Seetharamaiah
- Goutham Raju as Ticket Collector in train to Madras
- Anish Kuruvilla as Legal Advisor to Noor Jahan’s elder brother
- Annapurnamma as a house owner
- Praneeta Pattanaik as Radhika
- Mahesh Achanta as Bharathi
- Geetha Bhascker as the Principal of Women’s College
- Bawa as Afreen’s roommate
- Nayan Rosh T M as Radio Jockey (Voice)
Storyline:
Afreen is a student president of Pakistan at a university in London. She takes up the job of delivering a letter to Sita Mahalakshmi at the insistence of her grandfather’s will. Though she doesn’t like the job, she agrees to do it to get her share of her grandfather’s property. The letter is written by Lieutenant Ram to Sita.
Sita Ramam Movie Budget & Box Office Collection:
| Budget | ₹25 crores |
| Worldwide Collection | ₹91.4 crores |
About Sita Ramam Movie:
Sita Ramam is a Telugu period romantic drama film directed by Hanu Raghavapudi. Produced by C. Aswani Dutt, under Vyjayanthi Movies and Swapna Cinema, it starred Mrunal Thakur and Dulquer Salmaan in the titular roles roles, with Rashmika Mandanna and others in pivotal roles.
Hanu Raghavpudi got the idea for the film when he bought a book that had an unopened inland letter. Regarding the same, he told The Hindu, “The letter I found in that book, in 2007, was from a mother to her son. I gathered that their family is from Vijayawada and the son is living in a hostel. She had enquired about his well-being and asked when he would be home. It got me thinking, what if the contents of the letter had something crucial that could change the course of events?”.
An army backdrop was later included in the story as suggested by Rajkumar Kandamudi. Sheetal Sharma was brought in as the costume designer for the film.
The film was announced in July 2020.
In April 2022, its title Sita Ramam was announced.
Dulquer Salmaan was roped in to play the lead role as a military officer, and it is his second collaboration in Telugu cinema with Vyjayanthi Movies after Mahanati (2018).
Mrunal Thakur was signed to play Sita by marking her debut in Telugu cinema before Pooja Hegde was finalized and later she is out of the project due to date clashes.
Raashi Khanna was initially considered for the role of Afreen before Rashmika Mandanna was finalized for the role. Singer and Voice artist Chinmayi Sripada was roped in to dub for Mrunal in the film, soon after her delivering twin babies.
Parts of the song “Kaanunna Kalyanam” was reshot and added in the Tamil version as “Kannukkule”.
Principal photography commenced in April 2021 in Kashmir and the first schedule wrapped up in July 2021. After two subsequent schedules in Russia and Hyderabad, the final schedule took place in April 2022.
Sita Ramam was released theatrically on 5 August 2022 to generally positive critical reviews praising Hanu’s direction, story, screenplay, writing, soundtrack, musical score, emotional weight and performances (particularly those of Thakur and Salmaan).
The film emerged as a major commercial success, grossing ₹91.4 crore (11 million USD) at the box office, becoming the ninth highest-grossing Telugu film of 2022.
The film’s screening was banned in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. According to an article published by News18, the ban was a result of the film hurting religious sentiments. Later, the ban in the United Arab Emirates was lifted and the film released there on 11 August 2022.
The digital distribution rights of the film were acquired by Amazon Prime Video. The film premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 9 September 2022 in Telugu and dubbed versions of Tamil and Malayalam languages. The film premiered on Disney+ Hotstar in Hindi on 18 November, 2022. The satellite rights of the film is acquired by Star Maa.
