Gharshana

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Directed by	Gautham Menon
Produced by	Sivaraju Venkatraju
Written by	Gautham Menon
Starring	Daggubati Venkatesh Asin Thottumkal Yana Gupta
Music by	Harris Jayaraj
Release dates	July 30, 2004
Language	Telugu

Gharshana (Telugu: ఘర్షణ, English: Contention) is an Indian action film directed by Gautham Menon.^[1] It was released on July 30, 2004. The movie stars the Indian film actor Daggubati Venkatesh and the Indian film actress Asin Thottumkal playing the lead roles. It is a remake of the 2003 Tamil film success Kaakha Kaakha. Jyothika was the initial cast instead of Asin.

This film is not to be confused with the Maniratnam film Gharshana (1988), starring Prabhu Ganesan and Karthik Muthuraman with music by Ilaiyaraja, which was dubbed into Telugu from the Tamil language original, Agni Natchathiram (1988).

Cast

• Venkatesh as D.C.P Ramachandran I.P.S
• Asin as Maya
• Salim Baig as Panda
• Ravi Prakash as ACP Rajesh
• Daniel Balaji
• Vamsi Krishna
• Yana Gupta in a special appearance

Character map of remakes

Plot

Rama Chandra (played by Daggubati Venkatesh) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Hyderabad City. His upbringing as an orphan, and the special nature of his job as a policeman, have left him reluctant to form relationships with women. He doesn't have much faith in the judicial system and seeks to 'eliminate' the criminals in the town through encounters.

Rama Chandra, however, has fallen in love with Maya (played by Asin Thottumkal). She is a school teacher and has fallen in love with him. Initially he shuns her love, fearing that his enemies might cause harm to her. But her love is so deep for him that she is willing to take this risk, and they are married.

In one of his encounters, Rama Chandra kills Das, an Orissa-based leader of a criminal family, and his troubles begin. Das’ brother Panda (played by Salim Baig) resolves to take revenge on Rama Chandra for the death of his brother by targeting Chandra's friends and family members. Maya is kidnapped by these villains and her husband sets out to rescue her and to free Hyderabad City of this criminal menace at the same time. Despite facing growing horror and betrayal at every step, Rama Chandra defeats Panda and his mafia, and also rescuing his wounded wife. The ending scene features Rama Chandra a few months later, calling out to his wife 'Maya' and both leaving in a car.

Music

Soundtrack

The soundtrack of Kaakha Kaakha was retained in the Telugu remake except "Andagaada" and "Ye Chilipi". All Lyrics are written by Kula Shekar. The album consists of 5 songs.

Production

Gautham Menon subsequently remade the film in the Telugu language for producer Venkata Raju and went on to claim that the new version was better than the previous version and that his new lead actor Venkatesh was more convincing that Surya in the role.^[2]

Reviews

Idlebrain wrote: "The second half starts in an interesting style and it loses the steam as the climax approaches. The plus points of this film are music, Venkatesh, photography and stylish taking. The negative points are slow narration, lack of Telugu commercial elements, dry scenes and lack of substance. This film has got more style and less substance".^[3] Indiaglitz wrote: "the film redeems itself due to the technical excellence and masterful craft of Gowtham. In that, he has married the best of Ram Gopal Varma and Manirathnam (urban finesse, short, crisp and natural dialogues and getting the best out of his music director)".^[4] Fullhyderabad wrote: "The action fans will love this movie. The encounters are sadistically gory. Especially the romantic encounters between Asin and Venky. They make you want to slit their guts! There are standards for boring too, you know! It drags. And that forms half of the movie".^[5] Sify wrote: "Speed, style and sparkle are the essence of Gharshana".^[6]

References

External links

• Gharshana at the Internet Movie Database