Saroja (2008 film)

Saroja - A Venkat Prabhu Movie
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Directed by	Venkat Prabhu
Produced by	T. Siva
Written by	Venkat Prabhu
Starring	Shiva Vaibhav Reddy SPB Charan Premji Amaren Vega Tamotia Prakash Raj Jayaram
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Cinematography	Sakthi Saravanan
Edited by	Praveen K. L. Srikanth.N.B
Production company	Amma Creations
Distributed by	Pyramid Saimira
Release date	5 September 2008
Running time	148 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Box office	₹14 crore

Saroja (stylised as Sa-Ro-Ja) is a 2008 Tamil language comedy thriller film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu and produced by T. Siva. It stars Shiva, Vaibhav Reddy, Premji Amaren, S. P. B. Charan and Vega Tamotia in the leads and Prakash Raj, Jayaram, Kajal Aggarwal, Sampath Raj, Nikita Thukral and Nagendran in other vital roles. Several other popular Tamil television artists and crew members make special appearances throughout the film. The score and soundtrack were composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja.

The film, which is based on the 1993 Hollywood film Judgment Night, follows the journey of four young men who travel from Chennai to Hyderabad to watch a cricket match. Due to a road accident, they are forced to take a diversion off the main road to arrive on time. This leads them to a gang who have kidnapped a schoolgirl, Saroja, the only daughter of a rich millionaire.

The film was released on 5 September 2008 to very positive reviews and critical acclaim, while also emerging a high commercial success. Upon release, it was partially re-shot and released in Telugu.

Ajay Raj (Shiva), Ganesh (Premji Amaren) and brothers Jagapathi Babu (SPB Charan) and Ram Babu (Vaibhav) are close friends who spend a lot of time together in Chennai. Ajay is a television actor, Ganesh is a fun-loving engineering student who falls in love with every woman he sees, Jagapathi Babu is an engineer who is married and has a six-year-old daughter, and Ram Babu is Jagapathi's younger brother who lives with him.