Ranam

Ranam
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Directed by	Amma Rajasekhar
Produced by	Pokuri Babu Rao
Written by	Marudhuri Raja (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Amma Rajasekhar
Story by	Amma Rajasekhar
Starring	Gopichand Kamna Jethmalani Biju Menon
Music by	Mani Sharma
Cinematography	Ch. Ramana Raju
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Production company	Eetharam Films
Release date	10 February 2006 (2006-02-10)
Running time	145 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Ranam (English: War) is a 2006 Telugu comedy film produced Pokuri Babu Rao by on Eetharam Films banner, directed by Amma Rajasekhar. It stars Gopichand and Kamna Jethmalani in the lead roles and features music composed by Mani Sharma. The film recorded as Super Hit at the box office. The film is the first debut to Choreographer Amma Rajasekhar as director. The film is remade into Oriya as Mahanayak and in Kannada as Bhadra. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Stalin, Malayalam as the same title and in Hindi as Surya Jalta Nahi Jalata Hai.

Chinna is a rural character of a young man (Gopichand), naughty and indifferent. His father Chandramohan is always concerned about his future. He has two brothers who show no such mischief in their behavior. Chinna moves to the city for college and in the very first act, he starts fooling around and teases the girls in the college in the name of ragging. A girl named Maheswari (Kamna) starts admiring him. He has a gang of friends and there is a mandatory Principal (Dharmavarapu Subramanyam), who always keeps himself at the receiving end of student mischief.

Mahi's elder brother Bhagavathi (Biju Menon) is the Don of the place with his goondas hovering over the city taking people to ransom. They even enter the college campus and had a clash with students. Chinna takes them to task and insists that they should say 'sorry' for the damage they had done. Back at home Bhagavati wonders at the way, the lone student in the college, Chinna, drove his men out of the campus. He himself comes to see him and orders him to leave the place and go back to his village. By then his daughter started loving this young man. Chinna says he belongs to a village near Ongole and studied in Ongole. Mahi's grandmother (Rama Prabha) who also belongs to Ongole, is impressed with the young man. But Bhagavati develops hatred against him. He finds Chinna still staying in the city and threatens him again with dire consequences. However, Chinna goes back to the village for a month stay and takes Mahi along with him when Bhagavathi is laid in the hospital bed with an injury Chinna made, earlier on his throat. Mahi likes the rural atmosphere and Chinna's family members to develop affection for this girl.