Chatrapathi (2005 film)

Parvati lives on the coast of Sri Lanka, who adopts Sivaji as her son and shows equal affection to her biological son Ashok, but Ashok becomes jealous of Sivaji. One day, the villagers are forced to evacuate the coast, where a fire accident occurs and Ashok lies that Sivaji died in the fire accident thus separating him from his family. Sivaji ends up in a different boat and lands in Vizag port, which is dominated by Baji Rao who uses refugee labor for his gain.

Years later, Sivaji grows up to be an aggressive guy and still searches for Parvati. One day, Sivaji reacts violently in defense of the other refugees and kills Baji Rao's right-hand man Katraju after he killed a child named Suri. Enraged, Baji Rao attacks the slum and kills Sivaji's friend when he tried to save other children in the port. Sivaji revolts against Baji Rao and hacks him to death, where people starts referring to him as "Chatrapathi".

Baji Rao's brother Ras Bihari arrives in Vizag and learns about his brother's death and begins to hunt Sivaji. Ashok also lands in the same place, where he realizes that Sivaji is his brother and joins hands with Ras Bihari. Despite this, Sivaji manages to reunite with Parvati and also kills Ras Bihari, thus saving the port from any danger. Ashok also realize his mistake and apologize to Sivaji and Parvati, where they reunite and live happily.

In an interview with Idlebrain.com, Rajamouli described Chatrapathi as a "mother sentiment film", which also deals with the exploitation of immigrants who come to India from the places and live without any official identity. When questioned about similarities to the American film Scarface, he said that his father V. Vijayendra Prasad, who wrote Chatrapathi, watched Scarface and got inspired by the point of immigrants' problems, but there were no scenic resemblances between the two films.[5]

The film has seven songs composed by M. M. Keeravani. The track Gundusoodi has been reused from the song Kambangaadu from the Tamil movie Vaaname Ellai (1992) also composed by M. M. Keeravani. The song Agni Skalana was inspired from the Main Theme of the video game Myst IV: Revelation (2004) composed by Jack Wall.

The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Chandramouli (2013), in Malayalam as Chatrapathi (2011), and in Hindi as Hukumat Ki Jung (2009).

The film was remade in Bengali as Refugee (2006) starring Prosenjit and Rambha, in Bengali Bangladesh as Kothor (2007), with Alexander Bo and Moumita, and in Kannada with the same name in 2013, with Siddhanth and Priyadarshini.[13] It was remade in Hindi with the same name starring Bellamkonda Sreenivas making his debut in Hindi cinema.[14]

• Chhatrapati at IMDb