Mrugaraju is a Telugu-language action-adventure film directed by Gunasekhar that was released in 2001. Chiranjeevi plays the lead, with Simran, Sanghavi, and Nagendra Babu playing supporting parts. The soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma. On the same day as Devi Putrudu and Narasimha Naidu, the movie was released.
Mani Sharma composed the soundtrack for the film. Six songs make up the CD. Veturi wrote the lyrics for the three songs, and Chandrabose, Kulasekhara, and Bhuvanachandra wrote the remaining three songs. An engineer is tasked with constructing a railroad bridge that is plagued by the emergence of a vicious and fearless lion who preys on laborers on a regular basis. Locals say the railroad bridge site should have been a shrine because a Devi Maa idol was discovered buried there, but authorities refuse to believe them.
The film Mrugaraju is copied from the Hollywood film Ghost And The Darkness. The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 Hollywood historical adventure movie starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas and directed by Stephen Hopkins. The Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions who terrified laborers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the construction of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898, are romanticized in the screenplay written by William Goldman.
The picture garnered poor reviews and was a box office flop, grossing only $75 million against a $55 million production budget. Bruce Stambler, the supervising sound editor, won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
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