S.S. Creations and Annapurna Studios
Shiva (1989)
Technical:
Color
Scope
Release Date: Oct 05, 1989
Cast:
Akkineni Nagarjuna ... Shiva Kumar
Amala ... Asha
Raghuvaran ... Bhavani
Saichand ... Inspector Venkat (Asha's brother)
Chakravarthy ... J. Durga Rao a.k.a J.D.
Subhalekha Sudhakar ... Mallik
Bhanu Prakash ... Principal
Tanikella Bharani ... Nanaji
Uttej ... Yadagiri (Canteen boy)
Murali Mohan ... Sharat (Shiva's elder brother)
Jithendra (Chinna) ... Chinna
Naresh ... Jagan
Kota Srinivas Rao ... Machiraju
Gollapudi Maruthi Rao ... Vishwanatham
Viswanath ... Ganesh
Baby Sushma ... Keerthi
Nirmalamma ... Malli's Grandmother
Other cast: Priya, Padma,
etc.
Dialogues: Tanikella Bharani
Music: Ilayaraja
Director of Audiography: Deepan Chatterjee
Editing: Sattibabu
Dances: Sundaram
Art: Thota Tharani
Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy, 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Nagur Babu, Chitra, S. Janaki
Associate Director: Nagendla
Co-Director: Vamsi
Assistant Directors: Uttej, Phani
Operative Cameraman: Srinivas Reddy, Vijayakumar
Steady Cam operator: Rasool
Publicity: Eshwar
Camera: S. Gopal Reddy
Producers: Yarlagadda Surendra, Venkat Akkineni
Story, Screenplay, Direction: Ram Gopal Varma
Songs:
Botany paaThamundi, matinee aaTa undi
Lyrics:
sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, S.P. Sailaja, Chorus
Cast: Nagarjuna, Amala,
Subhalekha Sudhakar, Chinna, and others
aanandObrahma gOvindO
Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Playback:
Cast: Nagarjuna, Amala
Kiss me, hello, wrong number!
Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Playback:
Cast: Nagarjuna, Amala
sarasaalu chaalu, SreevaarU, vELa kaadu
Lyrics:
sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
Playback: S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Chitra
Cast: Nagarjuna, Amala
enniyallO malliyallO ennenni andaalO
Lyrics: Veturi Sundararamamurthy
Playback:
Cast: Nagarjuna, Amala
Story:
Shiva (Nagarjuna) comes from another town to attend a college where the local goons have been intimidating students. As he tries to take care of them and fight the goons, they become tougher and tougher and in the end, he has a one-to-one fight with the toughest Bhavani (Raghuvaran).
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| Nagarjuna and Amala in Siva |
About the film:
- Debut film of Ram Gopal Varma
- Only film in the combination of Ram Gopal Varma and Ilayaraja.
- 17th film for Nagarjuna (Hindi version is the 21st)
- RGV was paid Rs 50,000 and got five percent of profits as part of the remuneration for Telugu version
- Ilayaraja was paid Rs 4 Lakhs for the film
- Raghuvaran was paid Rs 2 lakhs for the film
- The film's budget was around 85 lakhs
- This was the first film to collect Rs One Crores in Nizam area
- The producers distributed on their own in four centers (Nizam, Vizag, and Godavari areas)
- C.L. Narasa Reddy (producer of
Geethanjali) distributed in Guntur area
- Before the film was released, the remake rights were asked for one lakh rupees. After film became a super hit the producers dubbed it into Tamil and sold it for eighty five lakh rupees. The Tamil version
Idayam (released on Jan 12, 1990 in 24 centers) collected more than two crore rupees!
- The Hindi version costed around 1.15 crore rupees as Ramu wanted to change some scenes in Telugu. Except for the
Botany paaThamundi... song, the rest of the songs were used as is from the Telugu version. Only
Botany paaThamundi... song was shot separately in Agricultural College in Rajendra Nagar.
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| Raghuvaran in Siva |
- The Hindi version was released on December 07, 1990. The film was made in association with Atluri Purnachandra Rao. It did extremely well in Mumbai and Kolkata.
- Director Puri Jagannath played as one of the student roles in the Hindi Version.
- Hindi version is longer than the Telugu version.
- Rohini dubbed for Amala in Telugu
- The film gave life to many newcomers like Chakravarthy, Jithendra, and Naresh, who were rechristened by their character names in real life - J.D., Chinna, and Jagan, respectively!
- Raghuvaran took 20 days to study how the dons in Mumbai live before accepting the role of Bhavani.
- Initially, Nagarjuna's role was named Bhavani and Raghuvaran's role was called Shiva. But, Nagarjuna loved the name Shiva and thus the names were exchanged.
- Producer Venkat Akkineni appears in a small role who comes to Raghuvaran for a settlement with a suitcase. Associate director Siva Nageswara Rao dubbed for him.
- Siva Nageswara Rao's name appears as Nagendla as the associate director.
- Krissnavamsi, who joined after half the film was over, is credited as Vamsi in the credits as a co-director. He worked for the Hindi film completely though.
- RGV won his first two Nandi awards for the film, as the Best Debutant Director and the Best Director.
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Shiva is the only south Indian film selected for the 1990 International Film Festival held in Kolkata (screened on January 19, 1990 at 8:30 a.m. in Empire Theatre).
