Lakshyam (2007 film)

Lakshyam (English: Target) is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language action film produced by Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji) and directed by Srivass, starring Gopichand, Jagapathi Babu, Yashpal Sharma and Anushka Shetty in lead roles. The music was composed by Mani Sharma. It was later remade in Tamil as Maanja Velu, in Bengali as  Fighter and in Kannada as Varadhanayaka.

Plot
The film starts with a flashback in Hyderabad. ACP Bose (Jagapati Babu) is a sincere police officer who is happily married and lives with his parents and younger brother Chandu (Gopichand). Chandu is a college student who falls in love with his classmate Indu (Anushka).

Enters Section Shankar (Yashpal Sharma), who is notorious for settlements and deals. He kills anyone who comes in his way and does not leave any evidence or witness behind. He takes a loan of 100 crores from a private bank with the help of a conniving DGP and a politician. The man who kills Shankar's chairman is Chandu's classmate Shafi (Amit Tiwari), who lusts for Indu. He requests Shankar that he needs Indu as his wife. So on the day of his idol opening, he sends his goons to kidnap her. Shankar's plan fails as Chandu arrives at the place and fights with him and his goons. When Shafi comes to meet Shankar, he gives his next plan, which is to kidnap her again on the next chance. When Chandu is with his brother at the police station, Indu invites him to her hometown to attend her cousin's wedding. Shafi, who awaited for the next chance to kidnap her, gets a chance, and Shankar's goons again come to kidnap Indu. Unfortunately, Chandu gets stabbed by a goon and sends Indu with Shafi. Shafi takes Indu to Shankar's house and locks her.

Bose arrests the private bank manager (Surya) on an intention to know the reason behind the chairman's death. Now Shankar and the DIG (Devraj) have no idea where Bose has taken the manager. For finding the location where the manager is, Shafi calls Bose and informs that Chandu met with an accident, for which Bose replies to him to take Chandu to the general hospital. When the manager was about to reveal the secret behind chairman's death, Shankar, Shafi, and the DIG arrive at the mortuary, kill Bose and the manager, and hide Bose to frame him for the murder of both the chairman and manager. At the same time, the DIG reports to the media that Bose had done all the misdeeds for the huge amount of money the customers invested. What transpires then forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Crew
 Direction: Srivass
 Producer: Nallamalupu Srinivas
 Music: Mani Sarma
 Cinematography: Sekhar V Joseph
 Dialogues: M Ratnam
 Art: Chinna
 Lyrics: Chandrabose
 Editing: Gautham Raju
 Fights: Ram-Lakshman & Vijay
 Co-Screenplay Writer: Gopimohan
 Release Date: 05.07.2007
 Banner: Sri Lakshminarasimha Productions

Soundtrack

Music composed by Mani Sharma. All songs are hit tracks. Music released on ADITYA Music Company.

Box office
 Anushka's popularity increased because of her glamorous role in the movie and it was declared a Super Hit at the box office.

Awards
 Jagapathi Babu won the Nandi Award for Best Supporting Actor and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu for his role.
 The movie also won the Nandi Award for Best Feature Film- bronze

References

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Category:2007 films
Category:Telugu-language films
Category:Indian films
Category:Telugu films remade in other languages
Category:Indian action films
Category:Masala films
Category:Directorial debut films
Category:2000s Telugu-language films
Category:Telugu film scores by Mani Sharma