Khadgam

Khadgam  is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Krishna Vamsi and produced by Sunkara Madhu Murali under Karthikeya Movies. It features Srikanth, Ravi Teja, Prakash Raj, Sonali Bendre, Sangeetha Krish and Kim Sharma in the prominent roles with music composed by Devi Sri Prasad.

Released on 29 November 2002, the film was Blockbuster. The film won five Nandi Awards and three Filmfare Awards. The film is remade in Hindi as Insan (2005).

Plot
The films starts at a Pakistan Terrorist Camp, where various terrorists in large number rigorously are getting trained by the Pakistan Army to shoot and detonate bombs though cell phones. In that camp Azar Khan a guy who came from Hyderabad, India who completes his training gets a mission. He has to bring back a big notorious terrorist Masood whom they call the great soldier of Islam. They can't afford to lose him but he gets arrested by Indian police in Hyderabad. They order Azar to go back there and meet their men who will make all of the arrangements and get Masood released at any cost. They say it's a sacred mission and he accepts.

The film now shifts to Hyderabad, where Koti an aspiring actor who wants to become a hero in film industry but never gets a chance gets kicked out of various film studios. His friend Murthy who wants to become a director but also never gets a chance struggles with him. Temporarily Koti works as junior artist and Murthy works as assistant director, and they face financial crisis. They aren't able to pay the rent of the house they are living for six months. The house owner M.S. Khaja who owns a big general (kirana) store in old city threatens them that if they don't pay rent by the evening he will get them arrested by filing a false theft on them and says that you will not have to worry about rent in jail. They both get scared by hearing this and go to Amjed Bhai for help.

Amjed Bhai a true Patriotic Secular Indian Muslim an auto driver who loves the country more than anything in this world, he stops the Muslims of his community from burning down a bus and killing people which was full of Hindu devotees returning from a pilgrimage and protects them. He sees Koti as his brother and encourages him that he will became a big hero in film industry he helps and saves them from M.S. Khaja somehow by fooling him. He and Zubeda who is the daughter of M.S. Khaja loves each other. He lives with his mother alone in old city, he also had a brother in past but died in religious riots which left them in grief.

A.C.P. Radhakrishna a sincere and nutcrack police officer an Islamophobic who believes that all Muslims are terrorists and has a infinite hate against them and has only one goal in his life to catch and kill azar khan it is revealed that his lover who he was going to marry was killed by azar khan in a terrorist attack in Kashmir gets to know that he has come to Hyderabad tries to catch him more like kill him.

These three main protagonists of the film meet each other by Captain an sincere army officer he is a close friend to Radhakrishna, captain's wife is a Muslim they both love and get married with the help of Amjed bhai through captain gets to know about Koti and also encourages him to become actor and through captain both of them get to know about Radhakrishna who ignores Amjed bhai as thinking of him as same as any other Muslim and hates him.

As time passes, Koti experiences a love failure and becomes a drunkard for which Amjed bhai confronts him to forget about his love failure and motivates him about his career, he and his friend Murthy gets a chance simultaneously in a film as hero and director whom they coerce the producer to hear the story which he likes accepts to produce the film. After that film Koti becomes a star hero and his friend a star director along with him.

Captain had to leave for an emergency operation leaving his pregnant wife in the care of Amjed bhai and Radhakrishna, he says to him not to see and hate Amjed bhai as any other Muslim and says to him that he is different but he doesn't believe it. In the absence of Captain as time passes radhakrishna expand his team and search for azar khan in city. It is revealed that azar khan is none other than the younger brother of amjed bhai whom they thought that he died in the riots, he tells his mother and amjed bhai to not tell anyone about him and keep it as secret they tells him that he will be killed if the others find out about him they refuse at first but then accept to keep it as a secret. After some days they got know that captain was kidnaped and gotten killed brutally by other side Pakistan army camp members, the death of captain enrages the three of them deeply when they saw some Muslims who were burning the Indian flag and saying the slogan "Pakistan zindabad" the three of them beat them all up and protects the flag.

Despite knowing everything about Radhakrishna's past a girl named pooja who is also friend of captain, Amjed bhai and koti loves him and confesses to him in the middle of confession he gets a call from his teammate and to his surprise he hears Azhar voice on the call he overhears him saying that he will give 5 crore to him even for a small information of Masood whereabouts, knowing the location Radhakrishna rushes there as soon as possible and a shootout takes place Azhar kills his teammate and tries to run away Radhakrishna chases him Azhar then enters into masjid and leaves his footwear outside and enters barefoot but Radhakrishna doesn't do that he tries to step in to the masjid with shoes on so Amjed bhai and other Muslims stop him from going inside which turns into riots and helps Azhar to escape which enrages Radhakrishna who then arrests everyone who stopped him from getting inside masjid including Amjed bhai.

Koti and Murthy goes on a work related to film shooting they see pooja who is their neighbour and is their friend. They sit together and also finds Azhar there. While they talk a group of people takes guns and shoots random passengers and close the gates of train. While Koti, Murthy and Pooja are tensed Azhar takes a gun and points them. Azhar calls Radhakrishna and demands him to release his brother and Masood bhai or else many people will be dead. Radhakrishna along with Masood and Amjad bhai goes to the station. Azhar makes Pooja wear a bomb jacket and blackmails Radhakrishna to leave Masood and Amjed bhai. Koti hits the Azhar from back and Amjed kills Masood. Radhakrishna removes the bomb from Pooja and kills the Azhar.

Later, in the airport Amjed bhai along with his mother is going to Mecca. Radhakrishna apologises Amjed bhai mother for killing Azhar. Amjed bhai says Azhar is not his brother and Radhakrishna is his brother along with Koti.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the movie was composed by Devi Sri Prasad and lyrics were written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri, Suddala Ashok Teja and Shakti. The concept behind the song "Govinda Govinda" is based on Adnan Sami's "Lift Karade".

Release
The film was dubbed into Hindi as Marte Dam Tak, into Tamil as Manik Baasha and into Bhojpuri as Bemisaal Hai Hum.

Reception
Jeevi of Idlebrain.com wrote that "Though this film is made to represent the patriotic action film genre, Krishna Vamsi tried injecting all other five-genre elements. In that process, the patriotic aspect of the film did not get elevated". A critic from Full Hyderabad wrote that "Krishna Vamsi certainly deserves three cheers - not just for making an offbeat movie but also for studiously avoiding patriotic jing bang to convey his message".