Gaayam is a 1993 Telugu movie directed by Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

, which established Jagapathi Babu as a star. The film's lyrics were written by Sirivennela and its music was composed by Sri. It starred Jagapathi Babu, Revathi

Revathi

Revathi is an award-winning Indian actress and film director. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi movies, directed several feature-length films, and has acted in and produced multiple television programs, totaling over twenty years of experience in the entertainment...

, Urmila

Urmila Matondkar

Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...

 and Kota Srinivasa Rao

Kota Srinivasa Rao

Kota Srinivasa Rao is a versatile Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He also served as an MLA from Vijayawada East assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999-2004.He was a theater artist with Rangasthalam for...

. The film was inspired by The Godfather

The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo. With a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne, the film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard...

, the Academy Award-winning 1972 film & Rage of Angels

Rage of Angels

Rage of Angels is a 1980 novel by Sidney Sheldon. The novel revolves around young attorney Jennifer Parker, as she rises as a successful lawyer after being framed for threatening the chief witness against a Mafia boss by mistakenly giving him a dead canary with a broken neck which in turn leads to...

a 1980 novel by Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon

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.with Vijayawada

Vijayawada

Vijayawada is the third largest city in Andhra Pradesh, India, located on the banks of the Krishna River and bounded by the Indrakiladri Hills on the West and the Budameru River on the North. The city is located in the Krishna District, about from the state capital Hyderabad.Vijayawada literally...

 mafia of the time as a backdrop.

Plot

Durga (Jagapathi Babu) is in love with Anitha (Revathy); he is all set to marry her and settle down in life. But things change when his brother Mohanakrishna (Charan Raj) gets killed by Gurunarayana (Kota Srinivas Rao), the local MLA, and Durga wants to settle the score with the mafia.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Character
Jagapathi Babu	Durga Prasad
Revathi Revathi Revathi is an award-winning Indian actress and film director. She has acted in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi movies, directed several feature-length films, and has acted in and produced multiple television programs, totaling over twenty years of experience in the entertainment...	Anitha
Kota Srinivasa Rao Kota Srinivasa Rao Kota Srinivasa Rao is a versatile Indian film actor in Telugu Cinema. He is known for his negative roles, character roles and comedy timing. He also served as an MLA from Vijayawada East assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India from 1999-2004.He was a theater artist with Rangasthalam for...	Guru Narayan
Sivakrishna	Bharadwaja
Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar is an Indian film actress.Matondkar, who made her screen debut as a child artist in the 1980 film Kalyug, debuted as an adult in Narasimha...	Chitra
M. Balaiah	Chari gaaru
Tanikella Bharani Tanikella Bharani Tanikella Bharani is a critically acclaimed, multi-faceted actor from Tollywood and a writer. He is a playwrighter, a dialogue writer, screen writer, poet, magazine editor, an actor and a director...	Lawyer saab
Rami Reddy	Sarkar
Charan Raj	Durga prasad's brother
Banerji
Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry	Journalist
Uttej Uttej Uttej is a Tollywood actor. His uncle Suddala Ashok Teja is a popular lyricist of Telugu cinema-Filmography:-References:...	Yadgiri
Narsing Yadav Narsing Yadav Narsing Yadav, popularly known simply as Narsing Anna, is an Indian actor who has acted in more than 300 films in the Telugu, Hindi, Tamil languages....	Narsing
Gummadi Gummadi Venkateswara Rao Gummadi Venkateswara Rao popularly known as Gummadi was a popular Telugu film character actor. Though he began to act in films much later than famous artistes like N.T.Rama Rao and Akkineni Nageswara Rao he had through the course of his career acquired a niche for himself vis a vis the character...
Annapoorna Annapoorna (actress) Annapoorna or Annapurna is a well known Telugu film actress for her portrayal as mother, mother-in-law, and grand mother, aunt, etc. She started her film career as a heroine paired with Mohan Babu in a blockbluster Telugu movie Swargam Narakam directed by Dasari Narayana Rao in 1975.She is well...	Chitra's mother

Awards

• Jagapathi Babu won the Nandi Award for Best Actor
  Nandi Award for Best Actor
  Nandi Award for Best actor started in 1965.The Nandi Award for Best Actor winners:-See also:* Nandi Awards* Cinema of Andhra Pradesh...
  
  
• Sirivennela Sitaramasastri
  Sirivennela Sitaramasastri
  Sirivennela Sitaramasastri is an Indian lyricist known for his works in Telugu Cinema.He is a multiple winner of Nandi Award for Best Lyricist and Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist – Telugu...
  
   won the Nandi Award for Best Lyricist
  Nandi Award for Best Lyricist
  The following is a list of recipients of the Nandi Award for Best Lyricist....