Lakshyam

Lakshyam (“Target”) is a 2007 Telugu action film directed by Sriwass and produced by Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji) for Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions. Gopichand, Jagapati Babu and Anushka Shetty lead the cast, and Mani Sharma composed the music. Released on 5 July 2007, it won two Nandi Awards and a Filmfare Award, and was remade in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada.

What the story is about

The film opens in the middle of the action, with a young woman, Indu, fleeing a forced marriage, and Chandu breaking out of police custody, before going back a few months to explain how they got there.

ACP Bose, an upright police officer, has just been posted to Hyderabad, where he runs into “Section” Shankar, a criminal who uses loopholes in the law to escape punishment. Bose lives happily with his parents, his wife, his little daughter and his younger brother Chandu. Indu becomes close to Bose’s family without Chandu knowing; when the two end up as colleagues they bicker, then fall in love. Meanwhile Bose’s pursuit of Shankar, and a huge bank-loan fraud Shankar has pulled off with the help of a corrupt DIG, puts the whole family in danger, and Chandu finds himself with a personal score to settle.

Cast and crew

• Gopichand as Chandu
• Jagapati Babu as ACP Bose
• Anushka Shetty as Indu
• Yashpal Sharma as Section Shankar
• Amit Tiwari as Shafi
• Devraj as DIG Hari Narayan
• Ashish Vidyarthi as DIG Ajay Prakash
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Chandu and Bose’s father
• Kalyani as Bose’s wife
• Brahmanandam, Ali and Venu Madhav

Director: Sriwass. Producer: Nallamalupu Srinivas (Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions). Music: Mani Sharma, released by Aditya Music. Runtime: 164 minutes.

Reviews and box office

Critics liked it. Rediff, headlining “Lakshyam thrills”, wrote that “the film is good with some good action and sentiment. And it does not bore the viewer”. Jeevi of Idlebrain found the first half “entertaining with perfect blend of entertainment and emotion”, though the second half slows with formulaic, predictable narration. T2BLive includes it in its list of 2007’s top Telugu earners by distributors’ share.

Awards and remakes

At the 2007 Nandi Awards the film won the bronze Nandi for Third Best Feature Film (for Nallamalupu Bujji) and Best Supporting Actor for Jagapati Babu, who also won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor (Telugu). It was remade in Tamil as Maanja Velu (2010), in Bengali as Fighter (2011) and in Kannada as Varadhanayaka (2013).

Where to watch Lakshyam

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