Jai (2004 Telugu film)

Jai is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film directed by Teja, starring Navdeep in his debut, and also has Santhoshi and Ayesha Jhulka. The film was successful. The story tries to marry romance and patriotism. The film was dubbed and partially reshot in Tamil as Jairam.

Plot
Jairam is a son of a rich widow whose husband was killed by the Pakistanis in the war. As usual, she neglects her son and is busy in earning money for him in the business. Jai is a brilliant student who possesses high moral values. He falls in love with Farah, whose father teaches him boxing. Jai's mother holds the Indo-Pak Boxing Match. India loses the match, and the Pakistan champion challenges Indians saying that even after 56 years of independence, Indians cannot stop Pakistanis from butchering the Indian army members. Jai challenges that he will win them in 56 days. The twist in the tale is that the Pakistani boxer is none other than the ISI member sent by Lashkar-e-Taiba Chief Maulana Masood Azhar. When young Jai challenges them, he started his training and he gained punch weight up to 75kgs which was high compared to his opponent, then Pakistanis started trouble with Jai when he's upon training they rushed into fight and thrown stone to Jai's chest and crushed his right hand by their knee, Afterwards, Jai got rescued and admitted to hospital. The doctor reports that his ligament was torn and his ribs were fractured and it caused Pneumothorax which it leads against boxing challenge to put him on hospital for 6 months. But Jai doesn't want to give up and started testing himself by punching the pillow but it caused his hand teared severely and blood was dropping from his hand. After, doctor warns him if he does like that again it leads to lose his hand. So he started his training by using only his left hand. But Pakistanis also troubled his trainer and he got admitted but his son was ready to train him instead of his father. After 15 days, he attends the boxing match but got hit to his chest and it leads getting points to Pakistan but Jai never give up and started punching even by using his right hand which was injured when it bleeds he doesn't care about it and started punching his opponent. After his opponent got knocked, blood is shown dripping from his ear, showing that Jai defeated him with his broken fist chanting 'Vande Mataram'. After India won the boxing challenge and proved that they defeated Pakistan.

Cast

 * Navdeep as K. Jairam
 * Santhoshi as Farah
 * Ayesha Jhulka as Jai's mother
 * Tanikella Bharani as Sheikh
 * Abhinayashree
 * Venu Madhav as Sachin Undulkar, the school principal
 * Duvvasi Mohan
 * Dhanraj
 * Jenny as Doctor
 * Venu Yeldandi as Student
 * Chammak Chandra as Sheikh's supporter
 * Tamil version
 * Pandiarajan as Sachin Undulkar, the school principal
 * Chinni Jayanth as Auto driver
 * Madhan Bob

Soundtrack
The music was composed By Anup Rubens and released by Sohan Audio. All lyrics were penned by Kulasekhar.


 * Tamil Track list
 * "Dama Dama" - Shankar Mahadevan
 * "Chinna Nenjile" - Sumangali
 * "Oh Manase" - S. P. B. Charan
 * "Vande Matharam" - Baby Vaishali, Harish Raghavendra
 * "Un Kaiyil" - Sujatha Mohan
 * "Kannin Maniye" - Malliga Arun, K. S. Chithra
 * "Suruttamma" - Anuradha Sriram, Manikka Vinayagam
 * "Music Bit" - Anup Rubens

Reception
Jeevi of Idlebrain.com rated the film three out of five and wrote that "Instead of concentrating more on what he is good at, director Teja has chosen to elaborate and exploit the patriotism aspect. He failed in getting emotions right through patriotic episodes". Similarly, a critic from Sify wrote that "It is better for Teja to make good love stories than dabble in complicated storylines".