Sankham

Sankham
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Directed by	Siva
Written by	Anil Ravipudi (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Siva
Story by	Siva
Produced by	J Bhagavan J Pulla Rao
Starring	T. Gopichand Trisha
Cinematography	Vetri
Edited by	Gautham Raju
Music by	S. Thaman
Production company	Sri Balaji Cine Media
Release date	11 September 2009 (2009-09-11)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	20 cr

Sankham (English: Conch) is a 2009 Telugu action film, produced by J Bhagavan, J Pulla Rao on Sri Balaji Cine Media banner and directed by Siva. Starring Gopichand, Trisha Krishnan in lead roles and music composed by S. Thaman. The film recorded as hit at box office. The film was dubbed in Hindi as Phir Ek Most Wanted (2010) and in Tamil as Sivappu Saamy. It was remade in Dhallywood as Kothin Prothishodh starring Shakib Khan.

Plot

Chandu (Gopichand) is a rich, rough youth brought up by his uncle Krishna Rao (Chandra Mohan) in Australia. Mahalakshmi (Trisha) stays in Australia along with her uncle Pichaiah (Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam), who runs a restaurant. Chandu is fond of martial arts, but he never gets a chance to exhibit them in real situations. Mahalakshmi is another martial arts freak. After a few misunderstandings, they fall in love. One day, Mahalakshmi is forced to come back to her hometown in Rayalaseema. Chandu comes in search of her. Meanwhile, Sivaiah (Sathyaraj) and his archenemy, Mahalakshmi's father Pashupati (Kota Srinivasa Rao) are the rich leaders of two neighboring villages, in rayalaseema. They have longtime enmity. Chandu comes to Mahalakshmi's village and asks her hand in marriage. Though Pashupati's sister opposes this, Pashupati agrees based on one condition, that Chandu must escort his brother from railway station to home safely. The brother Rajappa (Supreeth), has been on a 23-year self-imposed exile from the district, due to his life being under threat of Sivaiah and his entire village. Chandu agrees and does so, beating 30 men of Siviah on the way. Then Chandu is challenged to go to Siviah alone to his house. While walking in Sivaiah's house, he is beaten up badly by Sivaiah's men that he laid at the door of the house. When Sivaiah saw his face, he recognized Chandu and rushed him to the hospital where he is saved. The incident reached to Chandu's uncle who flew to India. Uncle Krishna Rao is shocked to see Chandu with Siviah and proceeds to tell Chandu about his parents. Siviah is actually Chandu's father. 23 years ago, there was a big feud between village for sharing water, in which multitude of lives were lost in clashes. Siviah's wife pleads him to stop the fight, to which he pays no heed. She gives birth to twins, but one child and her parents are killed in a car-bomb, before her very eyes. This makes her to take Chandu and go to her native. After 2 years, she has a change of heart and comes to meet Siviah. As they are about to reconcile, Rajappa ambushes Siviah, and kills his wife before his eyes, despite his pleas. He sent Chandu with the uncle and has paid for all of his expenses since then. Chandu then joins Siviah as his heir, and defeats both Pasupati and his brothers. Finally he marries Mahalakshmi and returns to Australia and they live happy ever after.

Cast

• Gopichand as Chandu
• Trisha as Mahalakshmi
• Sathyaraj as Sivaiah
• Anil Ravipudi (cameo)
• Chandra Mohan as Krishna Rao / Kittu
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Pashupati
• Ali as Saif Ali Khan
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam as Pichaiah
• Tanikella Bharani as Narrator
• L. B. Sriram as Villager
• Venu Madhav as Prem Kumar
• Krishna Bhagavaan as Lawyer
• Raghu Babu as Doctor
• Supreeth as Simha Gajapati Naidu
• Banerjee as Suri
• Prudhvi Raj as Pasupati's brother-in-law
• Srinivasa Reddy as Seenu
• Raghunatha Reddy as M.P.
• Subbarayya Sarma as Doctor
• Chitti as Collector
• Melkoti as Feroz Khan
• Fish Venkat as Pasupati's henchmen
• Telangana Shakuntala as Pashupati's sister
• Seetha as Parvathi (Sivaiah's wife)
• Rajitha as Pichaiah's wife
• Apoorva
• Devisri
• Swathi as Katrina
• Ramya Chowdary
• Aruna
• Priya
• Usha Rani

Soundtrack

Untitled

Music composed by S. Thaman. Music released on Aditya Music Company.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Mahalakshmi"	Ramajogayya Sastry	Karthik, Megha, Janani Iyer, Priya Himesh, Divya	4:30
2.	"Dhakku Dhakku"	Bhaskarabhatla	KK, Rahul Nambiar, Priya, Megha, Priya Darshini	4:15
3.	"Maamu"	Ramajogayya Sastry	Udit Narayan, Manikka Vinayagam	4:18
4.	"Dheeradhi"	Acharya Srishesham	Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, Ranjith	4:51
5.	"Ie Baboi"	Bhaskarbatla	Ranjith, Naveen, Priya Darshini	3:56
6.	"Sankham"	Acharya Srishesham	Karthik, Ranjith, Naveen, Rahul Nambiar, Sathyan, Vasu	1:52
Total length:				24:01

Reception

Sankham received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Idlebrain rated it 2.5/5, calling it a clichéd film. 123telugu rated it 3.25/5, along with stating that "Shankam can be watched once as it does meet the minimum audience expectation of watching a timepass movie."

External links

• Sankham at IMDb
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