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Dandupalya

Name: Dandupalya
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Released: 2012-06-29
Duration: 126 min
Cast: Pooja Gandhi, Raghu Mukherjee, Priyanka Kothari, Makrand Deshpande, Ravi Kale

Sandalwood20122h 6mKannadaTop 77% of Sandalwood budgets

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39th of 97 in Sandalwood

Reported gross: 60
Return on budget: 85
Momentum: 34

Out-grossed 60% of Sandalwood releases with reported figures ($5M).
Returned 8.3× its budget, against an industry median of 2.1×.
Momentum in the 34th percentile.

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Cost: $562K
Took: $5M

Against a Sandalwood median of 2.1×, so this one returned 4.0 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

A gang of notorious criminals go about looting houses, raping and murdering women. Chalapathy, a brave and brilliant police officer, sets out to capture the gang and bring them to justice.

Released: 29 June 2012
Runtime: 2h 6m
Language: Kannada
Industry: Sandalwood

Top billedAll 15 credits

Made by

Director: Srinivasa Raju
Screenplay: Srinivasa Raju
Original Music Composer: Arjun Janya
Director of Photography: Venkat Prasad
Producer: Prashanth G R, Girish T

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