Vijayadasami

Vijayadasami is a 2007 Telugu action film directed by V. Samudra for Sai Sarvajit Movies, a remake of the 2005 Tamil hit Sivakasi. Kalyan Ram stars with Vedhika, in her Telugu debut, and Sai Kumar, with Jayasudha and Suman in key roles. It was released on 21 September 2007.

What the story is about

Sivakasi is a welder in love with a young woman, Devi. When her suspicious brothers attack him, he is forced to tell her about the tragic past he has been hiding, and that past leads him back to a reckoning with his own elder brother, Durga Prasad, who ruined his life when he was a child.

Cast and crew

• Kalyan Ram as Sivakasi
• Vedhika as Devi
• Sai Kumar as Durga Prasad
• Suman as Rajeswara Rao
• Jayasudha as Mahalakshmi
• Rajan P. Dev as Kodanti Koteshwar Rao
• Brahmanandam as PP, Sivakasi’s friend
• Giri Babu, AVS, Duvvasi Mohan and Suman Setty

Director: V. Samudra. Story: Perarasu. Dialogue: the Paruchuri brothers. Music: Srikanth Deva. Cinematography: Ram Prasad. Editing: Nandamuri Hari. Action: Stun Siva. Runtime: 165 minutes.

Making the film

The story is by Perarasu, who wrote and directed the Tamil original, and the Paruchuri brothers wrote the Telugu dialogue. Kalyan Ram decided to star after watching Sivakasi in Vizag. Most of the film was shot on a street set built at Ramanaidu Cine Village in Hyderabad, with the climax filmed over a week at Ramoji Film City. All of the songs, by Srikanth Deva, were reused from Sivakasi, as was the background score by his father Deva; Aditya Music released the soundtrack.

Reviews

The film drew negative reviews, according to Wikipedia, which cites reviews from IndiaGlitz and Full Hyderabad. Rediff‘s review was headlined “Vijayadasami offers nothing new”. Wikipedia describes the film as a commercial failure, but its only source for that is a DVD seller’s description page, and we have not found a named outlet reporting its collections. It had an international DVD release on 25 April 2008.

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Vijayadasami and the reviews it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.