Sivamani is a 2003 Indian Telugu-language romantic action film written, directed and produced by Puri Jagannadh on Vaishno Academy banner. The film stars Nagarjuna Akkineni, Rakshitha, Asin and Prakash Raj. It has music composed by Chakri. A part of the story has been taken from the movie Message in a Bottle released in 1999 which in turn was inspired by Message in a Bottle - the Nicholas Sparks novel. Plot Pallavi, a newspaper editor, finds a mysterious, intriguing, and typed love letter in a bottle in the seashore. She is fascinated by it and shows it to her colleagues. They print it in their newspaper and get numerous responses. Pallavi, due to her personal curiosity, tries to reach Sivamani, and he ignores her. Rajnikanth helps Pallavi in getting close to Sivamani, and later Sivamani's past gets revealed. Sivamani is an honest cop in Visakhapatnam (Vizag). He falls in love with Vasanta, who aspires to become a singer. Dattu is a mafia don, whom Sivamani troubles a lot. Incidentally, Vasanta is distantly related to Dattu, and both of them belong to Kerala. In the course of events, Sivamani's mother gets paralyzed. Sivamani and Vasanta take her to Kerala to get the state's Ayurveda treatments. Dattu is also in Kerala, and his mission is to get his revenge by taking Vasanta away from Sivamani. Vasanta becomes mute after Dattu punctures her voice box. The rest of the story is about how Sivamani gets Vasanta back with Pallavi's help. Cast Nagarjuna Akkineni as CI Sivamani Rakshitha as Pallavi Asin as Vasanta Prakash Raj as Dattu Sangeetha as Sivamani's mother Mohan Raj as Vasanta's father Ali as Rajnikanth Banerjee as ACP Vinod Bala as Dattu's henchman Brahmaji as Dattu's henchman M. S. Narayana as Sheikh Imam's client AVS as Pallavi's boss Bandla Ganesh as person who keeps calling M. S. Narayana Besant Ravi Ooma Nisha Soundtrack Music was composed by Chakri. Music was released on SOHAN Audio Company. Reception Sify gave the film a verdict of 'let down' and opined that "The much hyped Sivamani-9848022338 is a kichidi that neither pleases the classes nor the masses". Jeevi of Idlebrain wrote that "You can watch this film for Nagarjuna and the cool flashback episode of the first half". Mithun Verma of Full Hyderabad wrote that "But overall, Puri has paid too much attention to untimely gimmicks and tried to cram in everything possible into Shivamani".