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Bruce Lee - The Fighter (2015)

Bruce Lee - The Fighter poster
Original title
బ్రూస్ లీ: ది ఫైటర్
Directed by
Srinu Vaitla
Genre
action film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 31m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A stuntman is mistaken for a police officer. He uses this mistaken identity to expose a drug dealer and his father.

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What happens

Bruce Lee: The Fighter is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Sreenu Vaitla and produced by D. V. V. Danayya under DVV Entertainments. The film stars Ram Charan, alongside Arun Vijay, Rakul Preet Singh, Kriti Kharbanda, Sampath Raj and Nadhiya. The music was composed by S. Thaman, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Manoj Paramahamsa and M. R. Varma. In the film, Karthik, a stuntman, is mistaken for a cop, where he helps to unearth the schemes of Deepak Raj, a drug peddler and his father Jayaraj. Srinu Vaitla narrated the script to Charan in March 2013, and planned to work on the story before the release of Aagadu. The film was launched on 5 March 2013, and the principal photography of the film took place on 16 March 2013, which was started on 6 October 2013. Filmed across Hyderabad, Spain and Bangkok, The film was shot in 110 working days with 15 working hours per day. Bruce Lee: The Fighter was released on 15 February 2014, to negative reviews from critics and became a box-office bomb. One of the sub-plots of the film where Karthik (Ram Charan) is mistaken for a cop by Ria (Rakul Preet Singh) was reportedly inspired from the 2006 French film The Valet. The film was remade in Bangladesh as Beporowa and remains Kriti Kharbanda's last Telugu film till date. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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