Sreeram
Poster
Directed by	V. N. Aditya
Written by	Dharani Paruchuri Brothers
Story by	Dharani
Based on	Dhill (Tamil)
Produced by	Burugapally Siva Rama Krishna
Starring	Uday Kiran Anita Hassanandani Ashish Vidyarthi
Cinematography	Sivakumar
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Music by	R. P. Patnaik
Release date	21 June 2002 (2002-06-21)
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Sreeram^[a] is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language action masala film directed by V. N. Aditya and produced by Burugapally Siva Rama Krishna. It stars Uday Kiran, Anita, and Ashish Vidyarthi in lead roles. Music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. It is a remake of the Tamil film, Dhill (2001), which starred Vikram and Laila. The film was an average grosser at the box office.^[1] An unrelated namesake sequel titled Jai Sriram was released in 2013.

Plot

Sriram (Uday Kiran) wants to become a cop. Madhu (Anitha) is the sister of Sriram's brother-in-law. Circle Inspector "Encounter" Shankar misbehaves with Madhu which causes a fight between Sriram and Shankar. Shankar decides to take revenge on Sriram by filing a false report during police verification about sub-inspector selections and also kills Sriram's dearest friend. Finally Sriram confronts and kills him.

Cast

Soundtrack

Music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. Chandrabose and Kulasekhar wrote two songs each, Kulasekhar wrote one more song in collaboration with R. P. Patnaik. Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry wrote one song. Music was released by Aditya Music company.^[2] The tune of the song "Bulli Bulli" was inspired from the Odia folk song Rangabati.

Reception

Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that "The film can be summed up in two words: Violence Unlimited".^[3] A critic from Sify wrote that "The problem is that Uday is miscast as an action hero and the director is also not comfortable with this genre of movies. They are unsure about themselves which hinders the progress of narration".^[4]

Notes

References

External links

• Sreeram at IMDb