Saloni Aswani and Upendra Rao in Kannada Film Shivam (2015) |
Shivam is an Indian Kannada action thriller film written and directed by Srinivasa Raju in 2015. The film is starred by Upendra Rao and Saloni Aswani in the leading role of hero and heroine. Besides Ragini Dwivedi, Makarand Deshpande, P. Ravi Shankar, Srinivasa Murthy, Avinash, Sharath Lohitashwa and many others have performed in this film as supporting casts.
Moto: The main theme of the film is "A younger son must step up to defend the temple for which his family is responsible.''
The film is also dubbed Hindi as Shivam The warrior and Telugu Film as Brahmana in 2016.
Plot:
Basavana/Alexander is the second son of a priest of Temple. The priest's first son is against religion. For his First son's activity and words, the priest is died. Taking the chance of the situation, a powerful Don Wants to sit his own activist instead of the late priest. But Basavana is all rounder in religious activity, politics, laws and he is also a police officer. He is always against terrorism. For this reason he knows the introduction and activities of the international terrorists,for example Amanulla Khan (P. Ravi Shankar). Basavani's brother goes abroad with wife and son. But Basavani stays with his grand father, mother and neighbors. At that time he falls in love with a neighbor girl called Bhavani (Saloni Aswani). The next half of the film is about Bsanava and his activity about finishing crime and terrorists. In this part a little importance is given to his family members and lover. Anyway, he as a police officer finishes all the terrorists and criminals alongside serving as priest in the temple, with taking ten police officers.
Upendra Rao and Saloni Aswani in Kannada Film Shivam (2015) |
Personal analysis:
Actually the film is about against terrorism and crime and serving, living with peace with Hindu, Muslims and others religious persons or serving religion happily. I think the film is a new turning point of the Kannada Film Industry. I found that the film has earned many positive reviews and comments from the film critics and scholars. The film also has earned huge money for the box office. I won't go in this direction. I just want to tell about its story, cinematography, editing styles, performances, in fact about the whole film. In the negative point, there are some scenes and I thought the scenes disturbed me so, I have skipped and went next. I think those scenes are very slow motion or something and there seems these have no movements or the movements have no results or the results have no importance. Bu I didn't get any other negative point of the film without the above. The performance, camera movements or cinematography or the division of the shots are important here. The cast's performances seems unnatural but the editing style has changed the performance type and has turned it into natural casting. In the editing style, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu are same and they use VFX extremely that helps them to express the story normally. Anyone can guess it is a natural acting. So, the editing styles are also very important of the film. Besides, the story is awesome. When I watch a south Indian film, I get some new stories that attract me greatly. Their own stories or the stories that they have taken from themselves or their history or their own story. It is also a plus point of their movies. Big budget is also an important issue. their market is also a big market all over their country. And sometimes their films are exported to abroad. It is also a plus point or additional advantage of their film industry. In this film the film story is unique here.So, I think the audiences like these kinds of films a lot. Besides, the directors can uphold the events of the film in such a way that the audience wants. I think they give importance on the comments of the audiences. Negative or positive recommendations or comments both of them help the directors to overcome their problems later.
In a word, It's a good film. it has a good story, the concept is good. Performance, cinematography, editing styles or the use of VFX have been precisely expressed. Overall a good cinema it is!