1989: Jeetendra, a cruel faction leader from Kurnool, visits Vizag to fix his marriage with Vizag's local MLA’s daughter. While returning, Jeetendra causes an accident and also fires a gun at the bystanders, who confronted him about the accident. They are brought in front of a family and an arbitrator, who is mediating the issue, asks Jeetendra to apologize to the affected people, but Jeetendra opposes and causes a scene.
Jeetendra is slapped and apprehended by the police. In order to get him released, Jeetendra's father abducts the arbitrator’s wife and son. After his release, Jeetendra finds his father dead and learns that the arbitrator's young son is responsible for this as Jeetendra's father killed the boy's mother. This incident severely impacts the arbitrator’s mother. Jeetendra’s enmity becomes permanent, where he settles in Vizag to take control of the area and also kills the arbitrator, which prompts the arbitrator's mother to send her grandson far away.
2014: Krishna is the youngest son of the arbitrator, who lives in Dubai and does not tolerate injustice. Krishna proceeds to India with his fiancée Sneha against his grandmother’s interest, where he sees Jeetendra’s elder son Chotu assassinating Simhachalam, a former MLA, to wind up a pending case and mold his father as Chief Minister. Krishna thrashes Chotu, who is admitted to the hospital.
A day later, Chotu dies under mysterious circumstances and an infuriated Jeetendra sets to exact vengeance. Jeetendra captures Sneha and finds the whereabouts of Krishna. While advancing to his wedding venue with his family, Krishna is attacked by Jeetendra and his henchmen, but Krishna and his family are saved by Krishna's elder brother Jaidev alias "Legend", who was responsible for the death of Chotu and Jeetendra's father. Following this, a local MLA, working for Jeetendra, divulges about Jaidev to Jeetendra’s youngest son.
1999: Jaidev is revered as a messaiah by the people for confronting Jeetendra, who always troubles the people. Jaidev's grandmother berates him for his enmity with Jeetendra. Jeetendra plots to make his brother join the politics, but the plan is ruined by Jaidev. Jaidev's cousin Radhika is the only one that endears Jaidev from childhood, where they also adore each other.
Meanwhile, Union minister Ameer Shah, who works for Jeetendra, arrives from Delhi and challenges Jaidev to free Jeetendra and make him as the CM, but Jaidev refuses. Jeetendra’s brother abducts Krishna, but Jaidev safeguards Krishna and kills Jeetendra's brother. Jaidev bails out Jeetendra and gives an ultimatum to leave the city after Jeetendra's wife pleads Jaidev not to kill Jeetendra. On the day of Jaidev and Radhika's marriage, Jeetendra captures Radhika and kills her in a combat with Jaidev. Jaidev's grandmother accuses Jaidev of the happenings, which makes him leave in regret.
Present: Krishna gets admitted in the hospital and recovers. Jaidev’s grandmother apologizes to Jaidev and reunites with him. Jeetendra conspires to snatch the CM seat by horsetrading the MLAs, but Jaidev shifts the MLAs to a secret place and reforms them to better citizens. At that point, Jeetendra arrives and tries to assassinate the MLAs, but Jaidev thwarts Jeetendra and kills him. In the aftermath, Jaidev continues to serve the people as Legend.
Music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Lyrics were written by Ramajogayya Sastry. Music was released on Lahari Music company. The music director Devi Sri Prasad, teaming up with Boyapati Srinu for the third time after Bhadra and Tulasi,[12] and scoring for the first time for a Balakrishna film[13] There are six tracks in the album.[14] Audio was bought by Lahari Music.[15][16] The music was launched on 6 March 2014 at Shilpakala Vedika in Hyderabad with the film's theatrical trailer.
Bollywood actress Sonal Chauhan was roped as one of the leading actress.[17] Jagapathi Babu was cast as the antagonist in the film.[18]Kalyani paired up with Jagapathi Babu as his wife.[19] Anil Sunkara confirmed that Radhika Apte was the heroine.[20]Hamsa Nandini appeared in a special song with Balakrishna.[21][22]
Filming
The muhurtham ceremony of the film was held on 3 June 2013[23] in Hyderabad.[5] The film was supposed to start its shoot in Dubai, but the production team decided to start off because Some permissions did not come through in time.[24] The regular shooting of the film started in Ramoji Film City on 13 July 2013 at Hyderabad. The introduction scene of the hero was shot under the action choreography of Ram Laxman.[25] A special car chase sequence of the film was shot in the deserts of Dubai[26] and a song was canned on Balakrishna and Sonal Chauhan in this schedule.[27]
Release
Legend was released worldwide on 28 March 2014[2][28] and was shown in 700 theaters across the state and over 1200 theaters worldwide.[citation needed]
Box office
Legend ran for 100 days in 31 centres and 175 days in 2 centres. The film completed 200 days run in two centres (Yemmiganur -Direct (Kurnool district), Proddutur(Kadapa District) -Single Shift). The film also completed 275 days run in 2 centers: Yemmiganur -Direct (Kurnool district), Proddutur (Kadapa District – Single Shift). After Muddula Mavayya, Samarasimha Reddy, Narasimha Naidu and Simha 5th film to complete double century.[29]
The film completed 365 days run in two theatres in Kurnool district with direct four shows and it also completed 1000 days in Proddutur (56 days in Arveti theatre and 944 days (single shift 4 shows) at Archana theatre).[30]
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