Jayam Ravi

Jayam Ravi, Actor: Thani Oruvan. Ravi was born to Tamil parents, editor Mohan and Varalakshmi Mohan. He has two siblings, his elder brother M. Raja is a noted film director, with most of his films featuring Ravi in the lead role, while his sister, Roja Mohan, is a dentist. He completed his schooling at Jawahar Vidyalaya in Ashok Nagar, Chennai. Sep 21, 2018 - Last seen in space film Tik Tik Tik, actor Jayam Ravi began shooting for his new project with debut director Pradeep Ranganathan on Thursday. Dec 18, 2018 - Jayam Ravi plays the lead character in upcoming Tamil film, 'Adanga Maru', directed by debutant Karthik Thangavel. Ravi last played a police.

Jayam (English: Victory) is a 2002 Indian Teluguromanticaction drama film produced and directed by Teja on Chitram Movies banner. Starring Nithiin, Sadha, and Gopichand in the lead roles and music composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film recorded as Blockbuster at box office and became a trendsetter.^[1] It was remade by M. Raja in Tamil with the same title in 2003.

Plot[edit]

The story is centered in a village where the parents of first cousins Sujatha (Sadha) and Raghu (T. Gopichand) decide that they will be married to each other when they become adults. As a child, Sujatha's uncle gives her anklets, which she wears as she grows up. As they grow older, Raghu is caught smuggling money from his house. At school, Raghu beats up a kid for talking to Sujatha. They quarrel, and soon Raghu's family leaves for another village.

Sujatha grows to be an attractive college student, while Raghu becomes a good-for-nothing character. On her way to college, Sujatha meets Venkat (Nithiin), a poor, handsome, charming, enthusiastic young man. He asks her to wear her anklets to college again, and soon after their quarrels, they fall in love. Meanwhile, Raghu’s parents, hoping that he will become a responsible person after marriage, decide to carry out his marriage with Sujatha. The whole story takes a turn when Sujatha’s parents learn about her love affair with Venkat. On the day of her marriage, Sujatha elopes with Venkat, and the action heats up as they are chased by Raghu and his thugs.

Finally, Raghu is defeated in a face-to-face combat with Venkat, and Venkat marries Sujatha.

Cast[edit]

• Nithiin as Venkataramana / Venkat (Vijay in Hindi version)
• T. Gopichand as Raghu
• Sadha as Sujatha
• Suman Setty as Ali Baba
• Rallapalli Narasimha as priest
• Satti Babu
• Shakeela as Gnana Saraswathi
• Delhi Rajeswari
• Nirmala Reddy

Soundtrack[edit]

Music composed by R. P. Patnaik. Lyrics was penned by Kulasekhar. All songs are blockbusters. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Awards[edit]

• Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut - South – Nithiin
• Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu – Sadha
• Nandi award for best villain-gopichand

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Jayam on IMDb

Jayam (English: Victory) is a 2003 Tamilromanticaction drama film directed by M. Raja. The film is a remake of the 2002 Telugufilm with the same title. It featured Ravi and Sadha in their first Tamil ventures respectively, with the success of the film prompting the actor to retain the film's title as a prefix to his stage name. It also stars Gopichand, who is reprising his role in the Telugu movie. Till date, Jayam is the first and the only Tamil film Gopichand has performed in.

Plot[edit]

The story is centered in a village called Pushpathoor. The parents of first cousins Sujatha(Sadha) and Raghu(Gopichand) decide that the kids would get married to one another when they grow up. Raghu is seen to be arrogant and negatively shaded since young. He smokes and steals money from his father gamble. Once when Raghu attacks Sujatha's classmate when he helps her, Sujatha breaks all bonds with Raghu. When Raghu's family move to another village, Sujatha and Raghu do not even say goodbye to each other. Meanwhile, Raghu's father gifts Sujatha with silver anklets and requests her to never remove them to which obliges. Several years pass by. Raghu and Sujatha are farly distanced. Sujatha grows up to be a beautiful teenage girl whereas Raghu becomes a rogue and a womanizer. Everytime his mother speaks of Sujatha, he feels disgusted. He goes to the extent of sleeping with his servant.

Meanwhile, Sujatha goes to college where she meets Ravi(Jayam Ravi). Ravi is from an extremely poor family and does small jobs to survive his only mother, and pay money to the money lender. He has a decent group of friends and they are classmates with Sujatha. Ravi has an instant crush for Sujatha, while Sujatha does not reciprocate. Ravi asks Sujatha to come to the temple festival to which she denies. But in the end, Sujatha comes, indicating that she is in love with Ravi. Ravi and Sujatha start dating and communicate with each other on the train by writing to each other on the black board at the side of the train.

Once, when building up the courage to board the same compartment in the train as Ravi, Sujatha is spotted by the family astrologer (Junior Balaiah). She goes home scared and as she had expected, the astrologer had told Sujatha's father (Rajeev). Her father tells her that she would be married to Raghu just like decided years ago. Sujatha protests but her father stays firms. This results in Sujatha dropped out from college and staying at home. Sujatha has a sister Kalyani who turns out to be the messenger between her and Ravi.

Raghu comes for the engagement reluctantly (still thinking their childhood encounter), but instantly falls for her the moment he sees her. He warns Sujatha that she would never go away and get married to him in the end. They both are engaged. The whole family go to the family temple after the engagement and there Sujatha sees Ravi waiting for her. She is spotted talking to Ravi by Raghu and his gang and they mercilessly beat him up. Traumatized, Sujatha runs to her father but Raghu indirectly warns her family that things would turn out wrong if Ravi is seen anywhere near Sujatha.

Ravi gets treated and Sujatha's marriage is nearing. As a last hope, Sujatha asks her sister to inform Ravi without letting any of Raghu's man knowing. Her sister goes to the railway station and waits for Ravi. When he comes, fearing that someone would see her, she writes the details on the black board. She eyes him to read it and leaves in a haste and is shown that Raghu's men are actually with her. Ravi comes and reads the board. Sujatha's sister has a habit for writing the letters 'it' and 'la' in between words making it difficult for the readers to read it. Ravi ignores the message and leaves.

Fearing that Ravi would come and take Sujatha away, Raghu sends his men to Ravi's houes. They trash the whole house and the things inside, sparing his mother. His mother tells Ravi's friends that he should come back with Sujatha and if he does not, she herself would kill him. Ravi who somehow cracked the code Sujatha's sister wrote, realizes that Sujatha's wedding is the next day. He then mysteriously comes into Raghu's home and writes that he would be the one marrying Sujatha in the end, in blood, triggering Raghu. Same thing happens in Sujatha's home on their wedding day.

Raghu in a rush, asks the family to hurry and complete the wedding. Sujatha goes into the room to change but in reality, she is waiting for Ravi, after seeing his message on the wall. Raghu comes and breaks open the door and at the same time, Ravi comes through the roof and rescues Sujatha.

Angered and defeated, Raghu goes after the couple and a chase ensues which results in Ravi getting wounded by Raghu. The couple and Ravi's friend who helped them, escape in the train with the help of the conductor. But Raghu enters the train with his men and the couple escape to the roof, where they are cornered. To save themselves, they jump off the train and roll down to a forest. To their shock, Raghu and his men come there as well. Raghu once more corners them and asks Ravi to fight him, face-to-face. In the end, Ravi wins bringing out his confidence and wins Sujatha's hand.

Cast[edit]

• Jayam Ravi as Ravi
• Sadha as Sujatha
• Gopichand as Raghu
• Rajeev as Sujatha's father
• Pragathi as Sujatha's mother
• Nizhalgal Ravi as Raghu's father
• Nalini as Raghu's mother
• Kalyani as Kalyani (Sujatha's sister)
• Senthil as Maadasamy
• Suman Setty as Alibaba
• Shakeela as College Professor
• Reshmi Menon as Young Sujatha

Soundtrack[edit]

Songs and background score is handled by R.P. Patnaik making his debut in Tamil.^[1]

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]

Jayam opened to mixed reviews, with a critic from The Hindu stating the film gave a sense of 'déjà vu' but added that Raja's 'treatment is interesting in patches'.^[2] The film went on to become a surprise success at 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.^[3][4]

References[edit]

1. ^'Jayam Movie songs from Raaga.com'. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
2. ^'Jayam'. The Hindu. 27 June 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
3. ^'Tamil heroes: Generation Next!'. rediff.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
4. ^'<!-#echo var='stitle' -> – Cinema scidhigal – It's All About movie'. Kollywood.allindiansite.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.

External links[edit]

• Jayam on IMDb