| Souryam | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | J. Siva Kumar |
| Produced by | Anand Prasad |
| Starring | Gopichand Anushka Shetty Poonam Kaur Manoj K. Jayan |
| Music by | Mani Sharma |
| Cinematography | Vetri |
| Studio | Bhavya Creations |
| Release date(s) | 25 September 2008 |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
Souryam (Telugu: శౌర్యం) is a 2008 Telugu film directed by cinematographer-turned-director J. Siva Kumar, who makes his directorial debut.[1] It stars Gopichand and Anushka Shetty in the main lead.[2] The film was dubbed and released in Malayalam as Souryam. The film has remade by Prabhu Deva into Tamil as Vedi with Vishal Krishna and Sameera Reddy in the lead roles.[3]
Vijay (Gopichand) comes to Kolkata in search of his lost sister . In a series of events he ends up getting caught in a brawl with some goons and in self defence chops a man's arm off. Later Vijay approaches a college in Kolkata to apply for a job and he is asked to get a signature in the sports quota. He later meets Gymson (Ali) and finds out he is the strongest teacher in the college. He meets a bubbly college girl Swetha (Anushka Shetty) and soon, they fall in love. One day, the gangster's son named Ajay (Ajay) finds out that Vijay is alive and he swears to avenge his father's lost arm. At a party, Ajay found Swetha and asks if she wants to sleep with him. Swetha was disrespected and embarrassed, then later, Ajay follows her and Divya (Poonam Kaur), and cornering the girls with his men. After his father sent him a picture of the person he needs to abduct, Ajay found out that Divya is the key and forced to take her badly. Divya was able to escape from the goons then he finds a man who comes to rescue her, who is apparently Vijay, and he fights them successfully. Divya was injured by the goons but rescued by Vijay. And Vijay revealed to Swetha that he was looking for Divya, his long lost separated sister who hated him for ignoring her before. He was forced to ignore her sister, for his dream for her to have a better life than to live in the streets with him, and he hide his identity from her until he found her in the present day that was painful. But when gangsters chase Swetha and Vijay, Vijay was forced to fight and kill some of Ajay's goons which made Swetha scared on Vijay on the way he fights bloodily.