Nijam

<p>Sidda Reddy is a powerful gangster. His right-hand man Devadaya “Devudu” Sharma has a lover named Malli. Reddy, who also likes Malli, takes her to his bed, which is not liked by Devudu. Eventually, Devudu kills Reddy and becomes the leader of the gang. Venkateswarlu is a fire officer, who slaps Devudu when the latter set a marketplace on fire and continued throwing at the marketplace. Devudu holds a grudge against Venkateswarlu, where he sends him to prison on a framed charge of the murder of Malli’s brother Baddu. Venkateswarlu’s son G. Seetharam tries to rescue his father, but everybody starts asking him for a bribe to do the work. At the end of the day, Mohan and Devudu kill Venkateswarlu. Enraged, Seetaram’s mother Shanthi and Seetharam execute the people involved in Venkateswarlu’s death in a planned and scientific manner and also finish Devudu, thus exacting their vengeance. Music was composed by . Lyrics were penned by . Music was released on Aditya Music. Jeevi of gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote “Overall, it’s an average film that has chances to become hit because of the Teja’s mass-attracting episodes and Mahesh Babu’s brilliant portrayal of the character”. Vijayalakshmi of wrote “Only a couple of things salvage director Teja’s Nijam — the first is an excellent performance by lead star and teen sensation Mahesh. The second is cinematographer Samir Reddy’s camera work. BVS Prakash of wrote “Except for some good performance by Mahesh, director Teja’s much-hyped film Nijam (truth) is nothing but a rehash of Kamal Haasan’s Indian and it also lacks realistic characters with villain (Gopi) who calls himself God but behaves like a psychic. Teja, who rose to fame with love stories Nuvvu Nenu and Jayam, fails to dish out an interesting ‘star-centric’ film”. In an interview, said “We made Nijam in a budget of 6.5 crore; We sold audio rights for 2 crore and movie initially were sold for a total of 26 crore. In total, we made a profit of 5-6 crore and Nijam was not a flop”. In an interview with , Teja told “I worked with Mahesh after he had a flop called , but Nijam released after and people drew comparisons. I don’t argue when people say Nijam was a flop. The film was made with a budget of 6.5 crore and sold for 21 crore. I repaid money to whoever lost money and still made a huge profit”. The film was also dubbed into as , and then again in 2012 as . The film was dubbed as in , in as and in as . It was remade as (2005) in starring and Gargi Mohanty (with Rameshwari reprised her role from ) and Bangladesh as (2005) starring .</p>