Gharshana () is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film produced by G. Sivaraju, C. Venkatraju, and Kalaipuli S. Thanu. It is directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon, in his Telugu debut. It is the remake of the 2003 Tamil blockbuster, Kaakha Kaakha. Venkatesh and Asin played the lead roles in the film, while the music was composed by Harris Jayaraj, who also composed for the original. Plot Ramachandra alias Ram, is an honest and daring IPS officer, with the Hyderabad City Police, as the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), in the crime branch. As he has no family or relatives, he lives with no fear. Ram and his IPS friends, who include: Srikanth, Rajesh, and Jagan, are recruited into a special unit of police officers, to battle the organized crime in Hyderabad. Violent and laconic, Ram has little time and patience, for his personal life. The special unit is ruthless in its confrontation with criminals, going as far as assassinating gang members; the unit is finally disbanded after 5 encounters in 3 months, by human rights authorities; Ram is posted to Control Room Duties. One day, a school teacher named, Maya, rebuffs Ram's routine questions regarding safety, not knowing that he is a police officer. He meets her again, when she and her friend are questioned for driving, without a license. However, Ram lets them off with a warning. When one of Maya's students has a problem with the local kids, who threatened to throw acid on her face, she asks Ram for help. He resolves this problem and a mutual respect grows between them. They begin seeing one another. When Maya gets into a road accident, Ram helps her recover, and they fall in love. Srikanth and his wife, Sandhya, become good friends with Maya. Dass, a gangster, who escaped the encounter operations, meets his estranged brother Panda, who returns to Hyderabad after fourteen years of crime life, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Panda has a peculiar tactic: he kills a family member of his opponent, but leaves the opponent alive to rot in failure and depression on the loss of his family member. Dass' gang, aided by Panda's planning, commit major kidnappings in the city and become very powerful in a period of six months. The 10-year-old son of an influential movie producer is kidnapped and killed, and later his daughter is also kidnapped for ransom. The special unit is