Sri Anjaneyam


Sri Anjaneyam is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action film written, directed, and produced by Krishna Vamsi. It stars Arjun Sarja, Nithiin and Charmme Kaur. Pilla Prasad, Chandra Mohan, L. B. Sriram, Prakash Raj and Ramya Krishna play supporting roles. The music was composed by Mani Sharma.
The film released on 24 July 2004. It was dubbed and released in Tamil as Hanumaan and in Hindi as My Boss Bajarangbali. It was remade in Odia as ''Chaati Chiri Dele Tu.''

Plot

Anji's parents are devotees of Lord Hanuman. Anji's father, an engineer, dreams of developing his village by constructing a dam to irrigate the surrounding areas of the village. He and his wife are murdered by the cruel village head Brahmam and his henchmen. Anji now becomes an orphan, and the village's Lord Rama temple's head priest raises him as his own son. Anji becomes a great devotee of Lord Hanuman and starts working as an assistant to the head priest. He gradually becomes everyone's favorite and is loved by all the people in the village. Paddu also develops a love for Anji over time and starts coming after him all the time. Now, once again, the village head, with the support of a black magician, plans to kill Anji to gain supernatural powers.
Lord Hanuman comes in disguise as a human to the temple and introduces himself as "Anji" to Anji. Anji allows Anji to stay with him, and both become good friends in the process. Anji secures Anji from the evil attacks every time and makes Anji perform the final rites of his dead parents. However, some villagers see this and get frightened, assuming Anji is performing black magic. Many instances like this lead the villagers to believe that Anji has unseen powers. Anji finally kills the black magician, who attempts to kill Anji on behalf of the village head. When Anji learns of this, he misunderstands the situation and tells Anji to go away. Anji tries to explain, but Anji, in rage, tells the former to leave him.
Later, the village head, with the support and testimonies of some villagers of the instances in which Anji did unreal things, holds Anji responsible for the death of the black magician and tries to kill him, claiming that he is performing black magic. But this is stopped by the head priest, who pleads with the village head not to kill Anji and asks him to expel him from the village as a punishment. Anji gets expelled from the village, but he does not care and comes back. The villagers stop him, but some of them start bowing down to Anji for the support he got from Lord Hanuman. Anji, unable to get their point, questions them and happens to realize that the Anji who has been with him all these days was not visible to any other villager except him. He even tells many instances in which Anji performed unreal things with him. But all the villagers say that they have not seen anyone with the name Anji besides Anji all these days.
Later, Anji realizes through the head priest that the one with the name Anji who has been with him all the time was none other than Lord Hanuman. Anji ultimately gets shocked and realizes his mistake. He hits his head with a brick in front of Lord Hanuman's statue out of remorse and falls unconscious. He witnesses Lord Hanuman instructing him to build the dam and name it Seethamma Thalli Dam. Anji starts doing so, but the village head once again tries to kill him. This time, Lord Hanuman helps Anji and beats up the villains. Finally, Anji, with the help of the villagers, completes the dam, thereby fulfilling his parents' dream of constructing it.

Cast

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Mani Sharma. Music was released on Maruthi Music Company. In a music review of the film, Sreya Sunil wrote that "Overall, Mani Sharma as extremely catchy tunes in this album".

Reception

Jeevi of Idlebrain.com opined that "The film picks up the momentum from the scene where Arjun descends on to the earth. And the movie is entertaining and educating as long as Arjun is there in the film with him making Nitin do miracles and also the philosophical conversation with Nitin". A critic from Indiaglitz said that "Vamsi's main problem, as a director, is that he has tried to cram too many things in too small a canvas. The result is he is successful only in a few things". Mithun Verma of Full Hyderabad stated that "In short, only the Gods can rescue this movie. But there's not enough reason for them, too".