Ranam

Ranam (“War”) is a 2006 Telugu action comedy directed by Amma Rajasekhar in his debut and produced by Pokuri Babu Rao on the Eetharam Films banner. Gopichand stars with Biju Menon and Kamna Jethmalani, and Mani Sharma composed the music. Released on 10 February 2006, it was a box-office success, ran 100 days in 24 centres and was remade in Odia and Kannada.

What the story is about

Chinna’s antics are indulged by his father, and he moves to the city for higher studies, where he soon clashes with the gangsters of Bhagawati, a powerful local strongman. Things get far more dangerous when Chinna falls in love with Maheswari, Bhagawati’s sister.

Cast and crew

• Gopichand as Chinna
• Biju Menon as Bhagawati
• Kamna Jethmalani as Maheswari “Mahi”
• Chandra Mohan as Chinna’s father
• Ali as Gokul and Venu Madhav as Venu
• Rama Prabha as Mahi’s grandmother
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as the college principal
• Suman Setty as a student and Jeeva as an inspector

Director: Amma Rajasekhar. Producer: Pokuri Babu Rao (Eetharam Films). Music: Mani Sharma, released by Aditya Music. Runtime: 145 minutes.

Reviews and box office

Jeevi of Idlebrain found “no boring moments” and recommended it, and Kishore of IANS, in a review carried by Nowrunning, called it “an entertaining movie, worth watching once”.

T2BLive‘s list of 2006’s top Telugu earners credits it with a distributors’ share of ₹10 crore, and it ran 100 days in 24 centres. It was remade in Odia as Mahanayak (2007) and in Kannada as Bhadra, and dubbed into Hindi as Surya Jalta Nahi Jalata Hai and into Tamil as Stalin. A sequel, Ranam 2, in which Rajasekhar was also to act, was planned but shelved after the death of actor Srihari.

Where to watch Ranam

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Ranam (2006 film) and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.