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Jayam(2003 film)

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Jayam
Directed byM. Raja
Written byPrasanna Kumar (dialogues)
Story byTeja
Based onJayam(Telugu)
Produced byM. Varalakshmi
Editor Mohan
StarringJayam Ravi
Sadha
Gopichand
CinematographyR. Rathnavelu
Edited byEditor Mohan
Music byR. P. Patnaik
Production
company
M. L. Movie Aarts
Release date
  • 21 June 2003(2003-06-21)
Running time
162 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTamil

Jayam(transl. Victory) is a 2003 IndianTamil-languageromantic action filmdirected byM. Rajain his Tamil debut. The film is a remake of the 2002Telugu-languagefilm with the same title.It featured Raja's brotherRaviandSadhain their first Tamil ventures respectively, with the latter reprising her role from the Telugu movie. The film featuresGopichand,who is also reprising his role, alongside an ensemble supporting cast includingRajeev,Pragathi,Nizhalgal Ravi,Radha Ravi,Nalini,Senthil,andSuman Setty.The music was composed byR. P. Patnaik.

The film released on 21 June 2003 to mixed reviews but was a sleeper hit. The success prompted Ravi to retain the film's title as a prefix to his stage name. Till date,Jayamis the first and only Tamil film which Gopichand has acted.

Plot[edit]

The film begins with a flashback in the early 1980s, where a young Sujatha and Raghu are playing. Their fathers are best friends and have decided that Raghu and Sujatha would eventually get married in the future. As the two go to high school, Sujatha becomes an ideal student whereas Raghu becomes a good-for-nothing man. He steals money and gambles with grown-up, catching bad habits. Once, he beats Sujatha's classmate for being close with her while studying and he and Sujatha have a fallout, swearing to never meet again. Eventually, Raghu's family move away and as days go by both forget about each other.

Coming to the present, Sujatha grown up to be a beautiful young woman, who her father adores. On the outskirts of their village Pushpathoor lives Ravi. Ravi belongs to a poor family and was raised by his widowed mother. Ravi teaches tuition for kids and runs errands around the village for money. He is an obedient and polite man. He has a group of friends and they all go to the same collage as Sujatha and become her classmate. Initially Sujatha does not talk to him but after sometime, both fall in love. This is known to Sujatha's younger sister Kalyani. As days go by, Sujatha openly reciprocates Ravi's love. The two travel on the same compartment in the train and are spotted by Sujatha's family astrologer. He conveys the same to her father, who then forbids her to go to collage and contacts his old friend to speak of marriage of Sujatha with his son, Raghu.

Raghu had turned out to be an arrogant rogue and womaniser. He is persuaded by his mother to meet Sujatha, and Raghu comes to Pushpathoor to see her, but has no interest. But when he meets Sujatha, he falls for her beauty and wants to marry her. When Sujatha conveys about her love for Ravi, Raghu threatens her. The wedding plans happen on full swing. Ravi too gets beaten up by Raghu in front of Sujatha. Ravi home is also trashed by Raghu's men who threaten his mother. Raghu's mother however wants her son to fight back and if he dies, it should be victorious and not like a coward. Heeding his mother's words, Ravi challenges Raghu. Ravi gets determined and warns Raghu that he and Sujatha will get married and will take Sujatha at 7:00 am. Enraged, Raghu tells the family to complete the wedding. Sujatha goes into the room to change, but she is actually waiting for Ravi after learning about his message. Ravi and Sujatha escape before Raghu arrives. After an intense chase, Ravi and Sujatha are cornered by Raghu and his men in the forest. Ravi and Raghu challenge each other in an intensehand-to-hand combat,where Ravi finally defeats Raghu. With Sujatha's father's approval, Ravi and Sujatha get married in presence of Raghu and her family members.

Cast[edit]

Soundtrack[edit]

Songs and background score is handled byR.P. Patnaikmaking his debut in Tamil.[2]For the tamil remake, Patnaik replaced "Raanu Raanu" with "Thiruvizhannu Vantha" (based on "Gaajuvaka Pilla" fromNuvvu Nenu) because the song was remade as "Kai Kai Vekran" forBagavathi.

  1. "Kanamoochi" -Shankar Mahadevan
  2. "Kavithayae Theriyuma" -Harini,Manicka Vinayagam,R.P. Patnaik
  3. "Thiruvizhannu Vantha" -Tippu,Gowri, Raja, Ravi
  4. "Vandi Vandi Railu Vandi" - Tippu, Manicka Vinayagam
  5. "Kaathal Kaathal" -Karthik
  6. "Kaathal Thandha Vali" - Karthik,Ganga Sitharasu
  7. "Kodi Kodi Minnalgal" -Vijay Yesudas

Release[edit]

Jayamopened to mixed reviews, with a critic fromThe Hindustating the film gave a sense of "déjà vu"but added that Raja's" treatment is interesting in patches ".[3]Visual Dasan ofKalkipraised the performances of Ravi, Sadha and Gopichand, flashback in the beginning of the film but panned for forcibly adding double meaning dialogues, illegal affairs and plagiarised scenes from English films and concluded calling it another film from Telugu which came to get rid of Tamil identities from Tamil films.[4]

The film went on to become asurprise successat the box office and prompted both Raja and Ravi to adopt "Jayam" to their stage names as a prefix, while their home production studio was renamed Jayam Company. The film collected 25 crores at the box office and became commercially successful.[5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^V. Lakshmi."Title change for a reason".The Times of India.
  2. ^"Jayam Movie songs from Raaga.com".Retrieved8 February2012.
  3. ^"Jayam".The Hindu.27 June 2003. Archived fromthe originalon 28 October 2003.Retrieved28 December2015.
  4. ^தாசன், விஷுவல் (6 July 2003)."ஜெயம்".Kalki(in Tamil).Retrieved8 February2024.
  5. ^"Tamil heroes: Generation Next!".rediff.com.Retrieved28 December2015.
  6. ^"<!-#echo var=" stitle "-> – Cinema scidhigal – It's All About movie".Kollywood.allindiansite.com.Retrieved28 December2015.

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