Gamyam

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name = Gamyam


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writer = Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi
starring = Allari Naresh,
Sharwanand,
Kamalinee Mukherjee
Rao Ramesh
director = Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi
producer = Saibabu Jagarlamudi
distributor =
editing = Shravan K.
released = February 29, 2008
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language = Telugu
music =
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"Gamyam" (Telugu: గమ్యం, English translation: "Destination") is a 2008 Telugu film directed by foreign-returned and debutant Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi. The film stars Allari Naresh, Sharwanand, and Kamalinee Mukherjee in prominent roles. The film was very well received by critics [cite news | url=http://www.fullhyderabad.com/scripts/profiles.php3?section=Movies&name=Gamyam&ID=5268| title= the fullhyd.com profile - Gamyam| accessdate=2008-03-28] [cite news | url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-gamyam.html| title= Telugu Movie review - Gamyam| accessdate=2008-03-28] and the audience. [cite news | url=http://www.greatandhra.com/ganews/viewnews.php?id=6072&scat=4| title= Trade Talk: Good Talk Is In Spread For 'Gamyam'| accessdate=2008-03-28] The film went on to become a big hit. [cite news | url=http://www.greatandhra.com/ganews/viewnews.php?id=6133&scat=4| title= Super-hit movie Gamyam Overseas business status| accessdate=2008-03-28]

Plot

Abhiram @ Abhi (Sharwanand) is the son of a multi-millionaire called GK (Vidyasagar). He is born and brought up among currency and for him life is just a game and he has been accustomed to lavish lifestyle. He dates with several girls and once he comes across Janaki (Kamalini), who has just completed her medicine course. Abhi challenges his friends that he would make her fall in love within few days. Abhi invites Janaki for coffee after a dance programme and proposes her. Janaki, being an orphan, is very kind towards the poor people and is service-minded. She mingles with poor people and provides succour to them. But, being a rich boy, Abhi hates those people. However, Janaki's free-spirited nature takes him very near to her and he develops an intimate friendship. At the same time, Janaki keeps maintaining some distance and does not express her love. By the time, she wants to express her love, she learns that Abhi has challenged his friends about his love and decides to keep herself off. While dropping her at her hostel, Abhi tries to convince her that he is really in love with her but she does not listen to him. In the process, Abhi makes an accident, where a woman dies and two of her children become orphans. Janaki survives the accident, while Abhi wakes up from injuries in hospital. After gaining conscious, Abhi could not find Janaki and he decides to go in search of her. In the process, he happens to meet a motorbike lifter called Gaali Seenu (Allari Naresh). Though Seenu is a vehicle-lifter, he is good at heart. The journey he takes, changes his life drastically as he is exposed to the hard realities of rural life and yet it's simple joys. The landscapes and the people he meets takes him through an emotional journey that alters his perceptions forever. Be it is a teacher, who supports orphan kids, a disillusioned ex-militant, a prostitute who craves for love, or his own companion Gali Sreenu, they all aid in his journey of self-discovery. During their journey, Abhi meets several people from different walks of life, including Naxalites and unfortunately Seenu dies of bullet injuries when an encounter takes place between the Naxals and police. He dies in the hands of Abhi. This really hurts Abhi, though he is no way related to him but has a few days of friendship. Finally, when Abhi meets Janaki, he admits that he was able to learn what life is. The film ends with the union of Abhi and Janaki.

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GAMYAM is the story of rich affluent Abhiram, who takes a motorcycle ride across the myriad landscapes of Andhra Pradesh in search of an elusive love and discovers his roots in the process, akin to Siddhartha’s journey of finding Self.

Abhiram, a motherless child, he’s always lived away from home studying in boarding schools and finally moved to USA for his Graduate and Masters programs. For the most part, he’s been a protected child and has always been provided a lavish lifestyle. He meets Janaki, a charming, young doctor and begins to flirt with her on a fancy. Her free-spirited nature draws him to her and they develop an intimate friendship.

He finds himself falling in love with her, but she restrains herself, always keeping an emotional distance from him. Though she likes him, she can’t love him for he’s not sensitive to the people and things around him. A privileged upbringing makes him myopic to the hard realities of life. When she rejects his advances - a kiss that he tried to force on her, he gets drunk and crashes his car which results in a terrible accident. He wakes up in the hospital bed to realize that he’s killed a young boy and though Janaki survived, she disappeared leaving no trace of her whereabouts.

This propels Abhiram into a motorcycle journey, in search of love and redemption. He is aided in his journey by a motorbike thief Gali Sreenu, a cantankerous young man who takes life easy. Through their adventurous journey, Sreenu provides the common man’s perspective to everyday struggles of life, but does so in an light-hearted, humorous manner. In search of Janaki, Abhiram comes across all the people from her past and in the process gets to really know her, more than he ever did in the weeks he spent with her.

The journey he takes, changes his life drastically as he is exposed to the hard realities of rural life and yet it’s simple joys. The landscapes and the people he meets takes him through a emotional journey that alters his perceptions forever. Be it a painter who supports orphaned kids, a disillusioned ex-militant, a recording dancer/ prostitute who craves for love, or his own companion Gali Sreenu, they all aid in his journey of self-discovery.

But what of Janaki? The person instrumental in his metamorphoses. Will he find her? Will she accept him? And more importantly will he accept himself?