Srikaram

Srikaram (“Beginning”) is a 1996 Telugu social drama directed by C. Uma Maheswara Rao and produced by Gavara Parthasaradhi under the Sri Chamundi Chitra banner. Jagapathi Babu leads the cast with Heera Rajagopal and Meghana, and Ilaiyaraaja composed the music. It was released on 19 April 1996 and runs 135 minutes.

What the story is about

Siva, an idealist with reformist views, rents the upstairs room of Shanta Murthy, a respectable family man in a quiet colony. Shanta Murthy’s elder daughter Vasanta and the neighbour’s daughter Geeta both admire Siva’s ideas. Siva’s friend Chandram, a smooth operator, arrives in the colony, wins Shanta Murthy over and gets himself married to Vasanta, while Siva lands a good job at a college and marries Geeta. On Chandram and Vasanta’s honeymoon, Vasanta is sexually assaulted by four men, and the attack, and the way family and society respond to it, shatters her life. The film follows Siva’s fight to get her justice.

Cast and crew

• Jagapathi Babu as Siva
• Heera Rajagopal as Geeta
• Meghana (Aboli Patil) as Vasantha
• Anand as Chandram
• Satyanarayana as Shantha Murthy
• Nutan Prasad as Advocate Prasad
• Banerjee, Venu Madhav and Gundu Hanumantha Rao in supporting roles

Director: C. Uma Maheswara Rao. Producer: Gavara Parthasaradhi. Music: Ilaiyaraaja.

Awards

Srikaram won two Nandi Awards for 1996: the bronze award for Third Best Feature Film, received by producer G. Partha Sarathi, and Best Lyricist for Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry. We have no box-office figures or contemporary reviews for it from a named outlet.

Where to watch Srikaram

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Srikaram; our own cast and crew records.