Badrinath (film)
Badrinath (alternatively spelled as Badrenath) is a 2011 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film directed by V. V. Vinayak and produced by Allu Aravind. It stars Allu Arjun as the titular samurai, along with Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji, Ashwini Kalsekar, Rakesh Varre, Rao Ramesh and Pragathi. Allu Arjun plays a modern-day Indian samurai, where he undertakes intensive martial arts and swordfighting training in Vietnam.In an interview, Ravi Varman told that the film was shot on a Panavision lens at a set in Kulaba on the way to the Rohtang pass apart from the Badrinath temple on sets in Hyderabad, Spain, Italy, Germany and Austria. Earlier, it was reported that the film would also have a dubbed version in Tamil with actor Santhanam's comedy scenes added, but the plan was dropped out due to the commercial failure of the Tamil dubbed versions of Telugu films Shakti and Magadheera.Badrinath was released on 10 June 2011 in 1,400 screens worldwide, where it received mixed to negative reviews from critics and became an average success at the box office. Prem Rakshith won the Filmfare Award for Best Dance Choreographer for the film's song Nath Nath.