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Nijam
Nijam
Soundtrack album by R. P. Patnaik
Released	16 March 2003;
Recorded	2003
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	33:54
Label	Aditya Music
Producer	R. P. Patnaik
R. P. Patnaik chronology

Nijam
Nijam
	Movie Poster
Directed by	Teja
Written by	Teja ;
Produced by	Teja
Starring	Mahesh Babu; Rakshita; Gopichand; Raasi
Cinematography	Sameer Reddy
Edited by	Shankar
Music by	R. P. Patnaik
Production; company	Chitram Movies
Release date	23 May 2003;
Running time	187 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Nijam (transl. Truth) is a 2003 Indian Telugu-language action film written, directed and produced by Teja on Chitram Movies banner. The film stars Mahesh Babu, Rakshita, Gopichand and Raasi, with music was composed by R. P. Patnaik.

Babu and Talluri Rameshwari won the Nandi Awards in Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively. It was remade in Odia as Arjun (2005) starring Anubhav Mohanty and in Bangladesh as Top Leader (2005) starring Shakib Khan.

Plot

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 kerosene 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, CI 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.

Cast

Mahesh Babu as G. Sitaram
Rakshita as Janaki
Gopichand as Devadaya "Devudu" Sharma
Raasi as Malli
Prakash Raj as ACP Raja Narendra
Jaya Prakash Reddy as Sidda Reddy
Ranganath as G. Venkateswarlu, Sitaram's father
Rameshwari as Shanti, Sitaram's mother
Brahmaji as CI D. Mohan
Vijayachander as DGP
Jeeva as DCP Murali Krishna
Suman Setty as Baddu
Kanta Rao as Narayana Rao
Rallapalli as a butcher
Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam as a traffic constable
Kondavalasa as Sitaram's neighbor
Duvvasi Mohan as Patil
Tirupathi Prakash
Shakeela
Alapati Lakshmi
Master Ghatamaneni Jaya Krishna as a young Sitaram

Cameo appearance

Mani Chandana as a dancer (cameo appearance in the song "Rathalu Rathalu")

Soundtrack

Music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. Lyrics were penned by Kulasekhar. Music was released on Aditya Music.

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Chandamama Raave"	R. P. Patnaik, Usha	3:39
2.	"Rathalu Rathalu"	R. P. Patnaik, Usha	4:15
3.	"Neelo Unnadi"	R. P. Patnaik, Usha	4:01
4.	"Chi Chi Ante"	R. P. Patnaik, Usha	4:13
5.	"Dhandakam"	Gopichand, Gangadhara Sastry	1:53
6.	"Ilage Ilage"	R. P. Patnaik, Usha	3:54
7.	"Kakulu Durani"	R. P. Patnaik, Ravi Varma	1:48
8.	"Abhimanyudu"	Group Song	1:52
9.	"Chara Chara"	Usha, Murthy	4:04
10.	"Rangu Rangula"	R. P. Patnaik	4:08
Total length:			33:54

Release

Reception

Jeevi of Idlebrain 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".^[1] Vijayalakshmi of Rediff 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.^[2]

Box office

In an interview, Teja 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".^[3]^[4] In an interview with The Hindu, Teja told "I worked with Mahesh after he had a flop called Bobby, but Nijam released after Okkadu 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".^[5]

Dubbed versions and remakes

The film was also dubbed into Tamil as Nijam, and then again in 2012 as Seerum Singam.^[6] The film was dubbed as Meri Adalat in Hindi, in Bengali as Aamar Protishodh and in Bhojpuri as Hamaar Faisla. It was remade as Arjun (2005) in Odia starring Anubhab Mohanty and Gargi Mohanty and Bangladesh as Top Leader (2005) starring Shakib Khan.