Red (2021 film)

Red
Film poster
Directed byKishore Tirumala
Screenplay byKishore Tirumala
Based onThadam
by Magizh Thirumeni
Produced bySravanthi Ravi Kishore
StarringRam Pothineni
Nivetha Pethuraj
Malvika Sharma
Amritha Aiyer
CinematographySameer Reddy
Edited byJunaid Siddiqui
Music byMani Sharma
Production
company
Release date
  • 14 January 2021 (2021-01-14)
Running time
146 minutes[1]
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu
Budget20 crore
Box office₹35.64 crore[2]

Red is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller film[3] directed by Kishore Tirumala and produced by Sri Sravanthi Movies. It stars Ram Pothineni in a double role with Nivetha Pethuraj, Malvika Sharma and Amritha Aiyer. A remake of the Tamil film Thadam (2019), it follows a murder investigation involving a civil engineer and his lookalike as prime suspects.

The film was announced in October, had its principal shoot commenced in November 2019 and ended in March 2020. Most of the film was shot in Hyderabad, except for two songs that were shot in Italy. Red has music composed by Mani Sharma while Sameer Reddy and Junaid Siddiquii performed the cinematography and editing, respectively. The film was released on 14 January 2021, coinciding with Sankranthi, after being delayed from its initial release date of 9 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received mixed reviews, but was a commercial success grossing over ₹35.64 crore on a production budget of ₹20 crore becoming the tenth highest-grossing Telugu film of 2021.

  1. ^ "Certificate Detail". Central Board of Film Certification. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Red Total Worldwide Collections". T2Blive. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  3. ^ "RED". Australian Classification Board. Retrieved 26 February 2022. Red is an Indian crime thriller which focuses on two men, Siddhu and Aditya, who each find themselves under suspicion of murder.