Siva (1989 Telugu film)

Siva Telugu is a 1989 Telugu action film based on student politics in Mafia backdrop, written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma in his debut. The film was produced by Akkineni Venkat, starring Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Akkineni, and Raghuvaran in lead roles, with soundtrack composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film was premiered at the 13th International Film Festival of India on January 19, 1990 at the Empire Theater in Kolkata. Upon release, the film received very positive reviews and remained a cult classic 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 Machiraju Kota Srinivasa Rao. ........

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