Shiva (1990 film)
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| Directed by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Produced by | Akkineni Venkat |
| Written by | Iqbal Durrani (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Story by | Ram Gopal Varma |
| Starring |
Nagarjuna Amala |
| Music by | Ilaiyaraaja |
| Cinematography | S. Gopal Reddy |
| Edited by | Shankar |
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Annapurna Studios
S. S. Creations |
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Running time
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161 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
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| Film score by Illayaraja | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Soundtrack | |||
| Length | 18:32 | |||
| Label | Venus Cassettes | |||
| Producer | Illayaraja | |||
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Shiva is a 1990 Tollywood action film, based on student politics in a Mafia backdrop, written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is a remake of Varma's debut Telugu film, Siva (1989), which was premiered at the Kolkata International Film Festival of India, held in January 1990. The film has Nagarjuna, Amala in the lead roles. With wide positive reviews, the film became a blockbuster.
The film's original soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja, which remained a chartbuster. The college campus depicted in the film was shot at Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in Hyderabad. Dialogues of this movie became an instant hit and therefore audio cassette of dialogues were released it was written by Iqbal Durrani Ram Gopal Varma later went on to release a prequel of the film in 2006.
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh., waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
It turns out that JD is a student leader, a big-man-on-campus, who is the (unopposed) president of the Student Union at the college. He is also the lowest rung in a gang ladder that reaches through Ganesh, the local goon, to Bhavani (Raghuvaran). Bhavani uses this network to provide political (and criminal, as needed) muscle to the local politician Tilak Dhari (Paresh Rawal).
Shiva (Nagarjuna) is a new student at college. He joins a small group of friends including Prakash (Raj Zutshi) and Asha (Amala). JD is known to cause petty troubles (such as leering at the girls and insulting the professors). He falls upon Shiva in a chance encounter. When he provokes Shiva, Shiva hits back. Further, Shiva chases JD across campus in plain sight and inflicts vicious punishment. JD is shocked as nobody has previously confronted him like this for fear of his gang connections.
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