Shivam Bhaje

Shivam Bhaje is a 2024 Telugu crime thriller written and directed by Apsar, starring Ashwin Babu and Digangana Suryavanshi, with Arbaaz Khan as a police officer. Produced by Ganga Entertainments, with songs and background score by Vikas Badisa, it released in theatres on 1 August 2024. Our record lists a running time of 124 minutes.

What the story is about

Ashwin Babu plays Chandra Sekhar, known as Chandu, an ordinary young man who lives with his mother and sister and is in love with Sailaja. Arbaaz Khan plays ACP Murali, the officer on a criminal case that Chandu becomes entangled in. The title means “Praise Shiva”. At the time of writing, the plot summary on the film’s Wikipedia page is an unsourced, spoiler-heavy walkthrough that we could not check against any review, so we have not used it beyond these basics.

Cast

• Ashwin Babu as N. Chandra Sekhar “Chandu”
• Digangana Suryavanshi as Sailaja
• Arbaaz Khan as ACP Murali
• Murali Sharma as Dr. Nishanth
• Tanikella Bharani as Raghu Ram
• Brahmaji as a doctor
• Sai Dheena as Vincent
• Tulasi as Chandu’s mother
• Y. Kasi Viswanath as Sailaja’s father
• Hyper Aadi as Apple Reddy
• Kireeti Damaraju as Sagar
• Shakalaka Shankar, Praveen and Gundu Sudarshan

Reception

Reviews were lukewarm. Avad Mohammad of OTTplay, in a review headlined “clicks only in its final act”, wrote that the film “has a very interesting point but starts on a slow note and takes forever to enter the main conflict point”. News18 felt it “takes viewers for granted” and failed to impress because of a weak storyline. We have found no reliably sourced box-office figure.

Where to watch Shivam Bhaje

Shivam Bhaje streams on Aha. The platform’s own listing confirms it, and our record has it streaming from 30 August 2024. Wikipedia says it arrived on Amazon Prime Video the same day; we have not confirmed that listing ourselves.

Sources: the Wikipedia article on Shivam Bhaje (cast, release and reception sections) and the review it cites, linked above; the Aha listing; our own cast and crew records.