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Venkat and Sailaja meet while travelling in a train. But Sailaja's father Ranga Rao wants to marry her off to Bhadranna, who is obsessed with her.

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2004 ‘వర్షం’ Directed by Sobhan

Venkat and Sailaja meet on a train and fall in love. But Sailaja's father disapproves of their relationship and decides to marry her off to Bhadranna, a ruthless landlord, who is obsessed with her.

Prabhas Trisha Krishnan Gopichand Prakash Raj Sunil Varma Raghu Babu Ajay M. S. Narayana Chandramohan

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M. S. Raju Veeru Potla

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K V Krishna Reddy

Cinematography Cinematography

S. Gopala Reddy

Composer Composer

Devi Sri Prasad

Alternative Titles

Barish The Season Of Love, Singa Magan, 雨

Drama Thriller Romance

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14 jan 2004, releases by country.

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Review by M S Krishna Prateek

18 years of VARSHAM : That inexplicable joy of watching your home location or the place you have been so many times to on the big screen - Varsham gave me that feeling for the first time in my life when rain united Venkat and Shailu in Veyyi Stambhaala Gudi (Thousand Pillars Temple)! Lived in Warangal for the first 8 years of my life from 1997 to 2005 and oh whattaa feeling to have watched this film for Sankranthi on an evening show at Sridevi theatre and going to the temple the next day in the excitement of watching it again freshly with the memories of "Mellagaa Karagani" song... but have to admit that it spoiled me for life as whenever…

Review by Pruthveshwar ★★★½ 2

Sunil saying Parsanall is my new fav thing.

Review by harshita ★★★½ 1

kill all men except for early 2000s era prabhas

Review by Jaye ★★★★

romance in the rain, trisha and 6 ft men. delectably my kind of movie– what’s not to love

Review by apurupa217 ★★★★

Screaming crying throwing up that my best friend The Rain ™ didn’t introduce me to a hot angsty 25 yr old that will eventually save me from my kidnapper 😩

Review by layanardo ★★★★

One of the few telugu movies where 'romance' part is actually true in 'romantic action drama'.

Notes: 1.Baby Prabhas was best prabhas, missing his pre-bahubali charm rn. 2. Nuvvosthanante Nenoddhantana song is #1 exhibit to show why Trisha mam has had a such a long career. 3. Vintage DSP albums with no bad songs ❤ 4. Raju gari screenplay writing is one of my favorites in tollywood 5. Minus 10 points to Paruchuri Venkat for trying telangana dialect lol

Review by misssexypayal ★★★★★ 2

came for prakash raj, trisha, and my favorite lyric in kopama napina 

left with gopi ji

Review by ThalaivaDhanush ★★★★ 7

Now that I’ve recovered from his awful bug glasses in Yogi I think I’m finally coming around to being a prabhas girlie or Trisha’s just such a good actress she can make any man seem desireable…at the very least I learned that Varsham means rain in Telugu so I can’t really complain

Review by harsha ★★★★ 2

nuvvosthanante nenoddantana

Review by Nick Feldman ★★★ 2

"Why don't they just build the whole plane out of wet sari songs?" -This movie's director

This felt pretty familiar from go but it took until the train station bit for me to fully realize that Baaghi was a remake.

It's an interesting case where if you could Frankenstein the two versions together, you'd have a near-perfect movie, but either alone is just pretty good. This version mostly has the better cast*--and Baaghi even has a pretty good one, but the cast without Trisha Krishnan, Sunil Varma, and Prakash Raj in it is generally going to lose these kind of comps--as well as a stronger romance arc, script, and soundtrack. But for a movie that really wants to spend about…

Review by arushibhaskar ★★½ 13

Loved, loved Trisha, Prakash Raj, Gopichand (say what you want but it takes a special skill to out-Prakash Raj in a film where Prakash Raj is also Prakash Raj-ing), the rain (no, it is NOT symbolic, intellectuals stay away!!) and some of the songs.

Hated pretty much everything else though— it's supposed to be a romantic melodrama with action (coz Prabhas star power, duh) but it's just one long drawn-out action sequence after another which pretty much drowned out the romance for me (sorry for the rain pun) which is a shame because Trisha and Prabhas actually had good chemistry.

Prabhas though... I primarily watched this film to see why Prabhas has fans (pre- Baahubali because I'm not an enjoyer of…

Review by Akhil Moola ★★★★

"Varsham epudu padatadi ra?" ("When is rain going to fall man?")

I remembered that I watched this movie in cinemas when I was a kid. Also, totally exceeded my expectations. This movie is awesome and I love it for existing. The kidnapping scene fucking traumatized me when I was a kid and I still don't how they proceeded that scene without Child services coming in the middle. The petrol scene is just pure BADASS! It's like the scene was on fire, you get what I mean? I'll shut up now.

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Varsham is a 2004 Telugu-language romantic action movie that was produced by M.S. Raju under the Sumanth Art Productions label, directed by Sobhan, and starred Prabhas, Trisha, and Gopichand. Devi Sri Prasad provided the soundtrack for the movie. The movie was remade in Tamil as Mazhai (2005), Odia as Barsa My Darling (2004), and Hindi as Baaghi (2016).

Plot: An unemployed young man named Venkat meets a middle-class beauty named Sailaja on a train, and after dancing in a downpour, they become attracted to one another right away. Sailaja also captures the attention of Bhadranna, a cunning and deadly politician who has developed feelings for her. Every time it rains, Venkat continues running into Sailaja, and the two fall in love. Sailaja’s father, Ranga Rao, is a typical black sheep with a lot of undesirable habits. Ranga Rao accepts Bhadranna’s proposal to marry him after jumping at the chance. Later, a movie producer named Seenayya comes to Ranga Rao and offers Sailaja a role in a film.

Ranga Rao believes that her career as a movie actor would be more lucrative than her engagement to Bhadranna. He persuades Sailaja to act in a movie, then effectively foments disputes between lovers before heading into the city with her. Venkat departs for his uncle’s home in Vizag as well. Sailaja becomes a movie star in Vizag, and Venkat works alongside his uncle as a demolition specialist in a quarry. A few months later, after Ranga Rao has defrauded Bhadranna of some money, he discovers Sailaja’s current residence, kidnaps her, and attempts to convince her not to marry him. Ranga Rao tells Seenayya to approach Venkat because he thinks Venkat still has feelings for Sailaja. Seenayya becomes anxious because the shooting was stopped.

With Bhadranna, Venkat battles for Sailaja and concurs. Sailaja eventually realizes that she misunderstood Venkat and expresses her regret. They joyously make up, and both of them begin dating once more. Bhadranna kills his brother Kaasi that evening because he failed to bring Sailaja. From Hyderabad, Bhadranna is returning to kill Venkat and wed Sailaja. Bhadranna attempts to stab Venkat at the event but is stopped by his uncle Sivayya. Venkat defeats Bhadranna and congratulates Sailaja and Venkat’s allies after the fight. Bhadranna briefly regains consciousness before being crushed under the burning statue of Ravana and losing his life. In the film’s climax, Sailaja and Venkat reconcile.

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