''Sivamani'' is a 2003 Indian

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written, directed and produced by

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banner. The film stars

Nagarjuna Akkineni Akkineni Nagarjuna Rao (born 29 August 1959), known mononymously as Nagarjuna, is an Indian actor, film producer, television presenter, and entrepreneur. Nagarjuna has acted predominantly in Telugu, along with a few Hindi and Tamil language fil ...

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and Prakash Raj. It has music composed by Chakri. A part of the story has been taken from the movie ''

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'' released in 1999 which in turn was inspired by ''

'' - the Nicholas Sparks novel.

Plot

Pallavi, a newspaper editor, finds a mysterious, intriguing, and typed love letter in a bottle in the seashore. She is fascinated by it and shows it to her colleagues. They print it in their newspaper and get numerous responses. Pallavi, due to her personal curiosity, tries to reach Sivamani, and he ignores her. Rajnikanth helps Pallavi in getting close to Sivamani, and later Sivamani's past gets revealed. Sivamani is an honest cop in

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(Vizag). He falls in love with Vasanta, who aspires to become a singer. Dattu is a mafia don, whom Sivamani troubles a lot. Incidentally, Vasanta is distantly related to Dattu, and both of them belong to

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. In the course of events, Sivamani's mother gets paralyzed. Sivamani and Vasanta take her to Kerala to get the state's Ayurveda treatments. Dattu is also in Kerala, and his mission is to get his revenge by taking Vasanta away from Sivamani. Vasanta becomes mute after Dattu punctures her voice box. The rest of the story is about how Sivamani gets Vasanta back with Pallavi's help.

Cast

as CI Sivamani *

as Pallavi *

as Vasanta * Prakash Raj as Dattu * Sangeetha as Sivamani's mother *

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as Vasanta's father *

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as Rajnikanth *

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as ACP * Vinod Bala as Dattu's henchman *

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as Dattu's henchman * M. S. Narayana as Sheikh Imam's client * AVS as Pallavi's boss *

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as person who keeps calling M. S. Narayana *

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* Ooma * Nisha

Soundtrack

Music was composed by Chakri. Music was released on SOHAN Audio Company.

Reception

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'' gave the film a verdict of 'let down' and opined that "The much hyped Sivamani-9848022338 is a kichidi that neither pleases the classes nor the masses". Jeevi of ''Idlebrain'' wrote that "You can watch this film for Nagarjuna and the cool flashback episode of the first half". Mithun Verma of ''Full Hyderabad'' wrote that "But overall, Puri has paid too much attention to untimely gimmicks and tried to cram in everything possible into Shivamani". The dialogue of the character Sivamani "''Na peru Shivamani, nakkonchem mental''" () became popular during the early 2000s.

Awards

* M. S. Narayana won

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for this film.

Legal issues

A legal suit was filed by an individual who owns the phone number alleging that the makers of the film did not attain his permission to use the phone number in the film. He alleged that he received calls from people in the hopes of speaking to Nagarjuna, and that it had caused him "immense agony".

Legacy

In April 2020, during the lockdown because of the

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, a short video from the film was shared by Nagarjuna, in which the dialogues of Sivamani were mimicked and replaced, with a warning to the goons of not wearing masks and asks them to wear masks and maintain

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References

External links

* {{Puri Jagannadh 2003 films 2000s romantic action films Indian romantic action films Films directed by Puri Jagannadh Films about organised crime in India 2000s Telugu-language films Films shot in Visakhapatnam Films set in Visakhapatnam Films shot in Andhra Pradesh Films set in Andhra Pradesh Films scored by Chakri