Souryam

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
Production company	Bhavya Creations
Release dates	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 and in Hindi as Meri Shapath and emerged as a huge commercial success. The film has remade into Kannada as Shourya with Darshan and Madalasa Sharma, into Dhallywood as Mone Boro Kosto with Shakib Khan and Apu Biswas, and into Tamil by Prabhu Deva as Vedi with Vishal Krishna and Sameera Reddy in the lead roles, which also did well at the Box Office.^[3] and is to be remade in Hindi by Prabhu Deva with Salman Khan.

Plot

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 finds and meets Swetha and asks if she wants to sleep with him and cuts her blouse down. 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 abducted her by force. Divya was able to escape from the goons then she finds a man who comes to rescue her, who was apparently Vijay, and fights them in vain. Its aftermath resulted to an injured Divya as she was taken by Vijay to the hospital. At the hospital, Vijay revealed to Swetha that he was looking for Divya, his long lost separated sister who hated him for ignoring her when they were kids. But unbeknownst by Divya, he was forced to ignore her sister because of his dream for her to have a better life than to live in the streets with him. He hides his identity from her and grew up with the influence of a police officer until he is ready to find her in the present day to meet her. But when gangsters chase Swetha and Vijay at the hospital, Vijay was forced to fight and kill some of Ajay's goons in front of Swetha which made her scared of him on the way he fights ruthlessly and grimly.

Vijay then finally decided to end the problem. He finally faced Manoj, Ajay's gangster father and the ruthless mastermind who also terrorizes an innocent village. He created a clever plan to make Manoj and his men to be punished in all of their crimes from the village and to other people making them end behind bars.

After a while, Vijay,who decided to check on Divya, finds out that she was abducted again. Vijay is shocked to see Manoj out of jail again and takes Divya as bait. Divya, still innocent of Vijay's true relation to her, pleads on Vijay not to fight for her anymore because they are not related. But because Manoj made her realize that his long lost brother will die in front of her, he emotionally forgives him for the past as she griefly watch Vijay being beaten up by Manoj's goons.

Vijay had the strength to finish the job successfully when he felt his sister finally acknowledging him as her brother. After a while, it was seen that Vijay and Divya are leaving to start a new life again as siblings and the two invited Swetha to come along with them.

Cast

• Gopichand ......... Vijay
• Anushka Shetty .... Swetha
• Manoj K. Jayan .... Shivarama Krishna Gowd
• Poonam Kaur ....... Divya
• Ajay ......... Ajay

Reception

Souryam received positive reviews. Idlebrain rated it 3/5, stating that "The film is aimed mainly at the masses and B/C center crowds. The film's commercial success depend on how the crowds embrace the sister sentiment in the film."^[4] Sify also rated it 3/5, giving it the verdict of "mass entertainer"^[5] Greatandhra similarly rated it 3/5,calling it"Full Length Mass Entertainer"^[6] 123telugu rated it 3/5,calling it "another 'Gopichand' brand flick"^[7] Fullyhyd rated it 3.25/5,stating "If you are looking for a masala entertainer, and can tolerate the excessive blood and gore, you will enjoy Souryam."^[8]

Box Office

Souryam being a mass entertainer, managed to go down well with the audiences and therefore became a huge Box Office success.^[9]

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