Ranam (transl. War) is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film produced by Pokuri Babu Rao on the Eetharam Films banner and directed by Amma Rajasekhar. It stars Gopichand, Biju Menon and Kamna Jethmalani in the lead roles and features music composed by Mani Sharma. The film is the debut of Amma Rajasekhar as a director. The film was remade in Kannada as Bhadra (2011).
It was dubbed in Hindi as Surya Jalta Nahi Jalata Hai, in Tamil as Stalin, and in Oriya as Fighter. It was successful at the box office, collecting a distributors' share of ₹10 crore. The sequel named Ranam 2 was also planned where director Amma Rajasekhar marking his acting debut along with directing the film but after the death of actor Srihari the film got shelved and remained unreleased.
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Plot
Because of his antics tolerated by his father, Chinna moves to the city for higher studies, where he has an altercation with Bhagawati's gangsters. He finds himself in trouble when he falls in love with Maheswari, Bhagawati's sister.
Soundtrack
Music composed by Mani Sharma. The music was released by Aditya Music company. All tracks recorded, mixed and mastered by SV Ranjit.
Reception
Jeevi of Idlebrain.com wrote that "On a whole, there are no boring moments in Ranam and you may watch it". Kishore of IANS wrote that "On the whole Ranam is an entertaining movie, worth watching once".
Box office
The film had a 100-day run in 24 centres.