Jagadam

Plot synopsis:
Seenu (Ram) enjoys fights right from his childhood. He appreciates violence. He wants to be like Manikyam (Pradeep Rawat), who was a goonda, as everyone, including his teacher, is afraid of him. When all the boys wanted to become doctors, engineers, lawyers and other professionals, Seenu wants to become a goonda. Though he behaves like a ruffian, he comes to know that one should have the support of a politician or a big dada. With the help of Laddu (A.S. Ravikumar Chowdary) an associate of Manikyam, Seenu meets the latter and joins his gang. At this juncture, Seenu falls in love with Subbalakshmi (Isha Sahni). As she pleads with Seenu to help her friend's father, Seenu agrees to settle a land deal. But the land was under illegal occupation of Manikyam's gang member.
As he promised to settle the deal, Seenu opposes Manikyam. This makes Seenu a hero, and he also starts doing settlements on his own. Once, Seenu agrees to help an industrialist, whose quarry was occupied by Yadav (Satya Prakash), with the support of Manikyam. As things go out of control, Seenu decides to kill Yadav.
However, he could not kill him but Seenu's young brother, who also likes fighting scenes, takes the gun and kills Yadav. Seenu appeals to the police commissioner (Prakash Raj) to mediate with Manikyam, but his men kill Seenu's brother. This irks Seenu who severely thrashes Manikyam, but spares him. Seenu realizes that violence is not the way to go. When Manikyam attacks him, he kills him in self-defense. The film ends on a happy note, with Seenu leaving all the dadagiri and leads a normal life.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Its different..... Jagadam is one of those movies that stand out to be different. Unlike other movies, this film actually has a story and a powerful message conveyed to the youth. Sure, the movie may be a rip-off of City of God, but what the heck? I was surprised that this movie was a flop. The only thing that worked against the movie was the stupid Central Board of Film Certification. They ordered 33 cuts from the movie and on top of that, they gave the film an 'A' certificate. If the movie had that many cuts, of course it wouldn't be as good as it just ruins the flow of the movie. Also , the CBFC changed the song "Violence is a fashion" to "Jagadam is a fashion" and the name SANIA MIRZA got edited out of the song "5 feet 8 inches". For a regular cinegoer, this wouldn't be a film they would like, but if u like critically acclaimed films, then go for it!. A splitting headache. There are kind of movies that put you to sleep.There are kind of movies that cause headache. But this is a mixture of both. You get a splitting headache in the first half. You go out and have an aspirin in the interval and come back expecting at least something and end up sleeping until the end. The narration begins with the prodigy( don't expect much from this guy) wishing and willing to become a gangster since childhood. He steps forward later to become indeed a gangster. Wont his parent ever bother about his well being . It is never ever referenced except once in the whole movie. What the director really want s to portray is not understood. Such a piece of stupid crap this is.. technically good. The film is technically good, thanks to the Super 35 format and the Digital Intermediate. The story of the film is quite new. It's about a young guy who gets interested into violence. He idolizes a big goonda and wants to be a part of his gang. But certain events causes him to turn against the gang and hence, he starts his own gang. There is one twist in the end that ought to get everyone's attention. I think we shouldn't be criticizing the makers but rather applauding them because this whole film was made with young talents (producer, actor, actress, director, music director, cinematographer,). The lead actor(Ram), Sukumar's story and screenplay, Ratnavelu's brilliant cinematography, and Devi Sri Prasad's wonderful music were the USP of the film. For such a team to make such a different movie, hats off to them!!