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Kittu Unnadu Jagratha

2017 film by Vamsi Krishna Naidu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ28127603 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kittu Unnadu Jagratha (transl. Kittu is there, beware) is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language comedy thriller film directed by Vamsi Krishna and written by Srikanth Vissa. It starred Raj Tarun and Anu Emmanuel in the lead roles, along with Arbaaz Khan in a negative role. The music is by Anup Rubens. The film has completed censor board formalities and released on 3 March 2017.

Plot

Kittu is a mechanical engineer who runs a car garage with his friends. He also kidnaps dogs and ask ransom money from the owners to set their dogs free. Kittu is in debts and has to pay money from a moneylender. When he and his friends gets caught, Kittu reveals his past to the moneylender:

Kittu met Janaki where he falls in love and pursue her to accept him, She reciprocates and they began a relationship. While repairing Janaki's car, He finds a bag from the car which consisted of ₹25 lakh (US$26,000), she asked him to bring it in the morning. However, the bag is stolen by his friend Babji.

Editorial summary

“Kittu Unnadu Jagratha” enters the record as 2017 film by Vamsi Krishna Naidu. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kittu, Unnadu and Jagratha can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-03-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kittu, Unnadu and Jagratha.
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“Kittu Unnadu Jagratha” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kittu, Unnadu and Jagratha provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28127603. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kittu Unnadu Jagratha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.