| Applause 
                            Entertainment Private LimitedA group of Aditya Birla
 Tapana
 Cast: 
                            Prabhudeva, Siddardha (intro), Maahi, Seema, Archana 
                            (intro), Ali, Eeswar Rao, Duvvasi Mohan, Ananth, Vinay 
                            Varma, Deepa, Rakhi, Meka Rama Krishna & Vijaya 
                            Bhaskar  Music: 
                            Sambhu PrasadLyrics: Vanamali, Srikanth, Masterji, Surendra 
                            Krishna
 Cinematography: Ajay Vincent
 Editing: Gowtam Raju
 Fights: Nandu
 Choreography: Pradeep, Robert, Nixon, Hari 
                            & Samrat
 Line Producer: Venkat Reddy
 Executive Producer: A Rajesh
 Co-director: Sri Vastav
 Producer: Wing Commander Ramesh
 Story - screenplay - dialogues - direction: 
                            Tejas Dhanraj
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                        | Aditya 
                            Birla Group's entertainment wing 'Applause Entertainment 
                            Pvt. Ltd' is making its foray in Telugu with a straight 
                            film titled 'Tapana'. Audio release function 
                            of Tapana is arranged in a grand scale at Taj Krishna 
                            on 22nd December. You have laser shows and dazzling 
                            display of fire crackers on this event. The 
                            celebrities who graced this occasion were Jaya Prada, 
                            Sonali Bendre, Azharuddin, B Gopal, SV Krishna 
                            Reddy, YVS Chowdary and Tammareddy Bharadwaja. The 
                            main cast of this film includes Prabhu Deva, Siddardh 
                            (introducing), Maahi, Seema and Archana (introducing). 
                            Tejas Dhanraj - an award winning TV serial director 
                            - is making his debut through this film. Sambhu Prasad 
                            provides music. The 
                            team of Applause Entertainment Pvt Ltd (AEPL) - elegantly 
                            dressed in black suits - graced to this event. Speaking 
                            on the occasion Anshuman Swamy - CEO of Applause Entertainment 
                            - said Applause Entertainment is into movies, TV shows 
                            and visual effects. They have recently completed 10 
                            shows on national level TV channels. AEPL has provided 
                            visual effects for Lord of the rings (Return of King). 
                            AEPL is currently producing two Bollywood projects 
                            - Dev and Black. Dev sports Amitab Bachchan 
                            and Kareena Kapoor and is being directed by Govind 
                            Nihlani. Black stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukharjee 
                            and Nandana Sen. Black is directed by Sanjay Leela 
                            Bhansali (his project after Devdas). He 
                            described Tapana as the emotional saga between 5 characters. 
                            Mr. Swamy said that they are negotiating with the 
                            like minded producers, technicians and actors to partner 
                            with. Jayaprada 
                            and Sonali Bendre released the audio of Tapana together. 
                            Sonali said that it an honor to be at the music launch. 
                            Aditya produced the audio of Tapana. |