Shiva is a 1990 Bollywood action film, based on student politics in a Mafia backdrop, written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. The film is a remake of Varmas 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 opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh., waiting outside the fictional VAS college of Arts amp 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 bigmanoncampus, 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. ........
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