Eenadu

Eenadu (Telugu: ఈనాడు) is an Indian Telugu-language daily newspaper which is the largest circulated Telugu newspaper in Andhra Pradesh and in Telangana, India. According to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) Q1 2012, Eenadu ranks No. 6 among the regional languages dailies with a Total Readership (TR) of 5,906,000.Eenadu (meaning "Today" in Telugu) was founded by the Indian media baron Ramoji Rao in 1974. Eenadu's rapid expansion enabled diversification of its portfolio by venturing into other markets such as finance and chit funds (Margadarsi chits), foods (Priya Foods), film production (Usha Kiran Films), film distribution (Mayuri Films), and a group of television channels (ETV). All the businesses are organized under Ramoji Group.

Editions

All areas of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, other cities like Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi.

History

Early days

Initially, the circulation of Eenadu was limited. When launched in the city of Visakhapatnam, it wasn't able to sell more than 3,000 copies a week. Eenadu found itself struggling to become a daily publication ranked amongst other popular rival publications.

Ee Nadu

Ee Nadu (Malayalam: ഈ നാട്) is a 1982 Malayalam political film directed by I. V. Sasi, written by T. Damodaran, and starring Mammootty. It was the first political movie with Arrack tragedy in Malayalam film history. According to the director, it was one of the three trend setter films made by him, the others being Avalude Ravukal and Devasuram. The film became a Mega hit and controversial upon release.

Cast

Eenadu (2009 film)

Eeenadu (English: Today) is a 2009 Telugu film, produced by S. Chandra Haasan & Ronnie Screwvala on Raaj Kamal International & UTV Motion Pictures banner, directed by Chakri Toleti. Starring Kamal Haasan and Venkatesh in the lead roles and music composed by Shruti Haasan. It was simultaneously made in Tamil as Unnaipol Oruvan with Mohanlal playing Venkatesh's role. The film was a critical and commercial success. The film is remake of the 2008 Hindi film A Wednesday!. It was released in English as Someone Like You.

Plot

Eashwar Prasad (Daggubati Venkatesh) standing at the lakeshore, describes in a voice-over about his termination due to a common man walked into his life and turning everything topsy-turvy. This scene leads into the flashback. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag within a train in a railway station, bus and in a multiplex at Hyderabad. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station located at Lakdi-ka-pool, Hyderabad. He then arrives on the rooftop of a building under construction near Raj Bhavan road and sets up his base of operations, equipped with various modern technology gadgets and instruments. He calls up Eashwar and informs him that 5 bombs have been placed in different locations throughout Hyderabad, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four hours. The common man demands that he would like to negotiate with a senior Government official. Eashwar seeks the services of the Chief Secretary(Lakshmi) to act as the negotiator. Eashwar also alerts his team involved in intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources in gathering preliminary information and tracing the location of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off TV9 news reporter Shilpa Rajkumar (Anuja Iyer), telling her to reach Lakdi-ka-pool police station immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life".