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Samudram

Genre: Action

Cast: Jagapathi Babu, Saakshi Sivanand, Tanikella Bharani, Sri Hari, Prakash Raj, Sivaji Raja, Ravi Teja, Mantripragada Venkat Rao etc.

Photography: Bhupathi

Music: Sashi Preetam

Story, Screenplay & Direction: Krishna Vamsi

Theatrical Release Date: 22nd October 1999

Summary

Sagar (Jagapathi Babu) is a fun loving guy. His family consists of a mother, a sister and cute kids in his gully. Enter the bumping babe Rajya Laxmi (Saakshi Sivanand). She bumps into Sagar with a cycle first, kinetic Honda and Honda Car later, thus blossoms the love between Sagar and Saakshi. Family of Sagar meets the family of Rajya Laxmi to fix up the match. Sagar's sister too gets engaged to a guy. Meanwhile, Chepala Krishna (Tanikella Bharani) is a noted smuggler in Vizag. Chepala Nani (Ravi Teja) is his younger brother. Both of them rule the rowdy world in the steel city. Chepala Krishna has an ambition to become an MLA. Krishnam Raju (Sivaji Raja) is the S.I. Of police for that area. Enter the C.I. of police Sri Hari(Sri Hari). He is the most dreaded and honest Police Officer. With the help of Krishnam Raju he gets to know about all the criminals in that area and Chepala Krishna tops the most wanted criminals list. When Chepala Krishna is about to file his nominations for the post of an MLA, he gets arrested by Sri Hari. Sri Hari makes sure that Chepala Krishna would not go to assembly by booking him as a rowdy sheeter. Since Chepala Krishna has a criminal case against him, he cannot contest in the elections. One fine day a stranger tips off Sri Hari that Chepala Nani is doing smuggling at a particular place. Sri Hari spots Nani and starts chasing him with the help of Krishnam Raju. Sister of Sagar marriage arrangements are going in a full swing. Sagar goes to bazaar to buy something. As the chase gang (Nani, Sri Hari and Krishnam Raju) enters a gully, Nani shoots Sri Hari with a country revolver. From the back side Krishnam Raju finishes Sri Hari with his police revolver. Sagar enters the scene and try to rescue Sri Hari only to get caught and implicated in the murder case of Sri Hari by Krishnam Raju. Chepala Krishna takes all the precautions to make sure that Sagar is sentenced for his life. All this story is shown as a flash back in the first half as the dejected Sagar, sitting in a cell, ponders about his good old days. Sagar gets deeply implicated in the case due to a false testimony of the Doctor (Mantripragada Venkat Rao) who does the postmortem on Sri Hari and the court slaps death punishment to Sagar. Now enters Nukaraju (Prakash Raj) is a humble constable, who is transferred to the Chepala Krishna's area. He is an avid admirer of late Sri Hari. Meanwhile, Sagar's mother gets hospitalized when she resists Chepala Nani who tried to rape the sister of Sagar. Nukaraju is on the duty to accompany Sagar to the hospital to visit Sagar's mom. There Sagar gives Nukaraju a slip and escapes from the hospital. We have three targets (Chepala Krishna, Chepala Nani and Krishnam Raju) for Sagar. It's certain that Sagar, being a hero in the film, would take revenge! If you want to know how Sagar proves his innocence and gets exonerated from the implicated case, you must watch this hard hitting exhilarating film on a tinsel screen with DTS effect.

Actors:

Jagapathi Babu: Sagar

Saakshi Sivanand:Rajya Laxmi

Tanikella Bharani: Chepala Krishna

Sri Hari: CI

Prakash Raj: Nukaraju

Ravi Teja:Chepala Nani

Mantripragada Venkat Rao: Doctor for CI Postmortom

Critical Aclaim

Direction and Screenplay of the movie had received high score among the film viewers and critics. Each and every shot in this film is meticulously executed and leaves an impact on the viewers. But the editing in the second half has a few shortcomings. As a symbolism 'samudram' is shown lot of times in between scenes. Even though the 'samudram' is shown in-between various scenes in this film, each time the same samudram reflect the moods and the emotions of of those particular scenes. Characterization is done with utmost care. Photography by S K Bhupathi was spectacular. Music by Sashi Preetam (paired up with Krishna Vamsi after Gulabi)was very good songs coupled with excellent DTS re-recording. The producers seems to have given a free hand to Krishna Vamsi in this film making and the film looks real glossy with rich technical values. A brave rewarding effort by the producers, indeed.