Souryam

Souryam (“Bravery”) is a 2008 Telugu action drama directed by Siva in his debut and produced by V. Anand Prasad under the Bhavya Creations banner. Gopichand stars with Anushka, Poonam Kaur and Manoj K. Jayan, with music by Mani Sharma. Released on 25 September 2008, it was a commercial success and was remade in Kannada, Tamil and Bangladeshi Bengali.

What the story is about

Vijay fights off a gang of thugs in Orissa on his way to Kolkata. They were sent by Sivarama Goud, a Hyderabad gangster on trial, whose son Ajay is sworn to avenge his father’s humiliation and arrest. In Kolkata, Vijay applies for a sports-quota job at a college and falls for a bubbly student, Swetha. But Ajay’s men are after another girl, Divya, and when Vijay steps in to save her, it becomes clear that he is not who he seems, and that his ties to Divya run deep. The film leans on a brother-sister sentiment.

Cast and crew

• Gopichand as Vijay
• Anushka as Swetha
• Poonam Kaur as Divya
• Manoj K. Jayan as Sivarama Goud
• Ajay as Ajay, Sivarama’s son
• Ali as Gymson and M. S. Narayana as Dr. Aarogyam
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam and Sudha as Swetha’s parents
• Tanikella Bharani as Karim and Sarath Babu as Commissioner Sarath

Director: Siva. Producer: V. Anand Prasad (Bhavya Creations). Music: Mani Sharma, released on Aditya Music. Cinematography: Vetri. Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh. Runtime: 159 minutes.

Reviews and box office

Reviews were positive. Idlebrain gave it three out of five, describing a film “aimed mainly at the masses and B/C center crowds” whose success would depend on how audiences took to its sister sentiment, and Sify, also three out of five, called it a “mass entertainer”.

It did well: Idlebrain’s top 14 Telugu films of 2008 includes it, and T2BLive puts its distributors’ share at ₹10 crore. It was remade as Mone Boro Koshto (2009) in Bangladesh, Shourya (2010) in Kannada and Vedi (2011) in Tamil, directed by Prabhu Deva, and dubbed into Malayalam as Shouryam and Hindi as Meri Shapath.

Where to watch Souryam

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