RGV’s Shiva 20 years Back
The local college bully keeps provoking the hero, keeps pushing him. The hero keeps quite, does not talk much. And all of a sudden, he lands one solid blow, to the bully. Not just the bully on screen, but the entire audiences in the theater were as shocked. If that shocked the audiences, what followed was even more astounding, as the hero chases the bully down the college corridors, and beats the day lights out of him. That one scene would forever transform the way action scenes were seen in movies. But it was not just the scene, the entire narration, the atmosphere, the mood, was something audiences had not seen before.
The year was 1989 and the movie of course was Shiva, the hero was Nagarjuna , the bully was J.D. Chakravarty, or just Chakri, who would be familiar to Hindi movie audiences with Satya. The director was an engineering graduate who later ran a video store. His name was Ram Gopal Verma or Ramu as people call him. And Shiva made him a household name.
With regards to Ramu, there is this urban legend of him being a self taught director, and an industry outsider who made it. To some extent true, Ramu was a passionate movie buff, and he would watch the same movie repeatedly, just to watch certain scenes. But prior to Shiva, RGV had worked as an assistant director for the movies Collectorgari Abbayi and Raogari Illu both under the Annapurna Studios banner. His father was a sound recordist at Annapurna Studios, which is how he ended up meeting Nagarjuna, and the rest as they say is history.
Shiva was something that was borne out of Ramu’s own college days, as he mentioned in an interview to Tehelka
I was just fascinated by people, so I used to study their behaviour. I was most fascinated by the bullies in my classroom. They were like gangsters for me. They had the guts to push around people, do things I couldn’t— perhaps did not even want to do myself. But I’d want a friend like that. I used to adulate them like heroes. That was my first touch with anti-socialism. Over a period of time, I developed a low-angle fascination for larger than life people.
Shiva in fact was not the first Telugu movie dealing with campus politics or rowdyism. But what made it a landmark movie, was it’s narration, its treatment, its taking.
The first fight sequence between Shiva and JD, was a trendsetter. To date then action scenes in Telugu movies, meant the hero doing all kind of weird acrobatics, hitting half a dozen goons, in some cases more heftier than him, and comming out without a scratch. In fact so tiresome and repetitive the fight scenes had become that in some cases, audiences would leave the theatre for a smoke, as soon as a fight scene began. But what we had here, was the hero landing a punch, and then mercilessly beating the bully. Audiences felt there were watching something real not a movie. Shiva forever changed the way action scenes were picturized in Telugu movies, as they began to be more grittier and violent, the standard Dishoom-Dishoom would soon be an anachronism.
But what made Shiva a cult classic, was not just the fight scenes, it was the way Ramu, wonderfully employed a subtle narration without going too overboard. We have a scene, where Shiva’s friend Naresh, who is standing for elections, is beaten up badly by the goons and is hospitalized. Shiva decides to stand now, and the way Ramu shows this is brilliant. We have Shiva’s friend, Mallik (Subalekha Sudhakar), comming and wiping the walls. JD, the local college bully, watches it with a grin on his face. Mallik looks at him, and then paints Shiva’s name. No dialogue here, but the way the expression changes on JD’s face is just brilliant.
Another brilliant scene is when Shiva beats up one of Bhavani’s(Raghuvaran), the local gangster, goons badly and carries him to his adda. Bhavani till then, has not met Shiva but only heard of him. Ramu beautiully sets it up here using thunder and lightning outside, as Shiva walks into Bhavani’s den. That is when Nanaji( Tanikella Bharani), Bhavani’s trusted aide, slowly whispers “Shiva”. The way Bhavani looks at his nemesis, with a shocked look on his face, and the overall atmosphere, is just brilliant. Again Ramu here making minimal use of dialogue, and using only expressions, sound, lighting to create the effect. Throughout the movie we see the brilliant way in which Ramu uses the shadow and light techniques to create the dark undertone of the movie. In fact so relentlessly dark and suffocating the atmosphere was, that when the songs were played, audiences actually heaved a sigh of relief.
Another brilliant aspect of Shiva was the steady cam work. The first time Ramu uses it was in the scene, when Shiva chases JD, we have the camera panning down the college corridors, into the open spaces. But the best part comes in that scene, where Shiva and his niece are chased by goons. As he runs around in the narrow, claustrophobic lanes that dot Hyderabad, we actually feel it, as the camera zooms and swivels across. Ramu of course would use this technique to its best in Satya, where we have that scene, of the gangsters running in the rain, through the Mumbai slums.
But it was not just the camera work or slick editing, it was also the way Ramu etched out his characters. Shiva was not exactly an idealistic hero, he is an ordinary middle class guy, who just wants to have a quite atmosphere to study in. The romance between Shiva and Asha( Amla) is also treated in the right manner, by blending it with the story, rather than just using it as a diversion. The scene where Asha explains to her brother, how she feels lonely, because Shiva is busy with his work, helping out others, and at the same time she understands his compulsions, is well picturized. Bhavani is again a more realistic villian, he does not stay in a huge mansion, nor does he cavort around with vamps. He stays in a run down hideout, and plans his moves from there. The uneasy relationship between gangsters and political leaders is depicted well between Bhavani and the politician Machiraju(Kota Srinivas Rao).
The side characters of Shiva’s friends Naresh , Chinna and Mallik are well etched too. In fact the intial scenes of the banter between Shiva and his friends are done naturally, and also make sure the movie does not become too heavy. Here also Ramu gives differing characteristics, the nerdy and studious Naresh, the hot headed impulsive Chinna and the more easy going Mallik. Ilayaraja scored the music for Shiva, and while the songs were nothing too memorable, the BGM was superb. Especially in the opening credits.
What made Shiva such a success as also a cult classic movie to date, was its unconventional narration, its fight scenes. But most importantly it touched a chord among the college going youth then, including yours truly. I was a college student when the movie was released, and for us to determine how succesful a movie was we had a rule of thumb. If we used the dialogues of a movie in our day to day conversations, nicknamed some of our college mates after characters in that movie, then yes this movie was a huge success. Shiva was what made RGV a favorite among college going students, and in a star dominated Tollywood, Ramu became a person whose name was enough to draw crowds to a movie. We did not care who acted, as long as the movie had the “Ram Gopal Verma presents” or “directed by Ram Gopal Verma” tag to it. I would always forgive Ramu for his Aags, Contracts because 20 yrs ago he gave us Shiva, and a decade earlier he gave us Satya.
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Excellent post Ratnakar, as usual.
I was particularly impressed by the chase scenes that were filmed in the narrow bylanes of Koti in Hyderabad. Amazing cinematography and well ahead of its times.
Narcisisst, the chase scenes used a Steadycam, thats why u get that dizzying effect. BTW that was not Koti, its somewhere in the Yusuf guda area.
Ratnakar!
Apart from everything that you mentioned, what makes Shiva of 1989 so special is well, 1989. Imagine making a mood based, atmosphere driven movie when the B.Gopals, the Kodandarami Reddys, the Raghavendra Raos were ruling the roost in the late 80s and early 90s. I am no expert, I am no insider, but I am willing to hedge my bets on the likelihood of his movies after Shiva, if not Shiva, being subjected to every kind of sabotage within the industry. What this movie did was turn the industry on its head, and shake up the audiences, and I am repeating it THE YEAR WAS 1989!!! you require tremendous amounts of confidence, shit loads of arrogance, balls and of course talent to do what he did.
Didn’t Shiva show that you could make a seemingly real movie with regular songs? Didn’t it blend commerce in well? Wasn’t there a lesson? Or am I reading too much here?! My guess is that the Ilayaraja contribution would have been an Annapurna Studios dictum. Probably such a hard hitting movie in 1989 was too much to gulp sans any kind of breathing space.
What surprises me is even after the benchmarks Shiva set in terms of technique and style, the movies (of other directors) that followed simply didn’t seem to show any amount of learning. Probably the bigwigs chose to remain blind and deaf to this phenomenon, probably dismissing this RGV, and Shiva as some kind of aberration and continued to do what they did best; give loads of crap. Otherwise how do you explain those Krishna and Suman kind of movies in the early to mid to late 90s which were so insane that it would be a sacrilege to term them masala!!! Weren’t all top actors and big production houses guilty of this? Where was the inspiration, where was the learning? Barring RGV and his proteges with Krishnavamsi giving a gem here and there, the Telugu field seems to have ignored every good thing.
Santosh, regarding why Ramu left the Telugu movie industry, i cud write an entire post on it. But the fact is Ramu was never liked both by the industry folks as well as a section of the Telugu media. There was a virulent campaign against him for promoting “goondaism and violence”. WTF?? I mean campuses in Andhra Pradesh were hotbeds of caste politics and rivalry, and Ramu only showed the reality, he was not inventing something new.
Industry folks could not accept the fact, that some one like Ramu, could make such an audacious movie and get away with it. During the 80’s and early 90’s, a significant section of the student community, hated watching Telugu movies. I am referring to the Telugu speaking audiences only. What RGV did with Shiva, was to reach out, to that section, who would otherwise never ever step into a theater showing a standard Telugu flick. I have known friends of mine, who rarely watched Telugu movies, but when it came to RGV, they had no second thoughts. That was the impact he created among Telugu audiences. The thing with RGV was he reached out to the younger generation.
Movies of Vishwanath or Bapu were classics, no doubt about that, but they were targeted towards a more mature and discerning audience. I mean most of the younger generation could not really identify with those movies. RGV touched those audiences, who wanted to see movies that reflected their feelings, but the standard Telugu masala was not that kind. Sadly the mainstream movie makers kept on dishing out the same old crap, they did for decades. Thats the reason why KV’s Gulabi was such a huge hit, when it came, because the Rao-Reddy brigade had by that time become stale. KV’s Gulabi bought in a freshness lacking till then and i was hoping he cud be RGV’s natural succesor. KV for quite some time maintained a balance, doing the family oriented stuff like Ninna Pelladutha with more serious ones like Sindhooram, Anthapuram( to date the best movie on Rayalseema factionism). But later on he began to cater mostly to the family audience, and we see very less of the hard hitting fare from him.
Ratnakar- the movie is very special to me as I entered my teens the year Shiva released & I know that be it in Telugu,Hindi or Tamil ( Udhayam ) the movie just shocked the audience beyond imagination.Years later when I started working in Hyderabad, I was quite happy to find that my office was in Swapnalok building- S.D.Road
( Secunderabad) where some scenes of Shiva had been shot & the building had become quite popular after that
Sethu well if Mani is the Madras Magician, then none has explored Hyderabad the way RGV has done. He takes us away from the standard Cyber Towers, Jubilee Hills, Durgamma cheruvu locations, to the seedy lanes and gallies.
If you take Gaayam, which is one of his most underrated movies, in the climax scene, Kota tells his goons, to wait nearby in Vikrant Theater, since right now it lies unused. Perfect detailing there, Vikrant Theater lies in the older part of Hyderabad, and right now its an abandoned place, the galli near that Theater is where the Ganesh Nimajna Utsav passes by. Honestly when i watched Gaayam on screen, i just felt as if i were watching that procession live. The way RGV intercuts the shots of the procession with the tension inside the theater, is just brilliant.
I was in Hyderabad when Shiva was released, my parents had come to visit me from Vizag. As we went around the city, my Mom kept on pointing out to every landmark that RGV popularized in Shiva, the Swapnalok building, the Keyes High School, so excitedly. I mean so many movies had come, but RGV popularized Hyderabad in a way few did, that is until Nagesh Kukunoor’s Hyderabad Blues.
@Santosh
Which is the reason, i believe, is why Ramu shifted base to Bombay….coz in his own words he was disgusted with the politics in the Telugu film industry.
Trimoneo & Ratnakar,
My big doubt is when we could accept Shiva, give it the kid of acceptance it deserved, make it a commercial hit in 1989, why cannot we do that NOW when there seems to be relatively much more tolerance, more acceptance, more space for everyone, less of bullshit from the top! What an irony!!!
Why do I fail to mention ONE , at least ONE pathbreaking movie in the truest sense? Don’t give me Anands, Godavaris, Bommarillus, Pokiris, Kings, Readys as some of them. One truly shocking, pathbreaking fare!! Every serious effort these whether or not on the lines of Shiva, seems to be brushed aside with an excuse of “not enough entertainment quotient”. The idea of “entertainment” out here is so fucked up. I am sorry to have digressed but all this in a good sense makes Shiva truly the landmark movie that it is. Doff my hats to Ram Gopal Varma.
By the way Sethumadhavan!
the biggest gainer out of all the locations was supposedly Keyes High School, Secunderabad
and trust me every time I watch Shiva, apart from the obvious, I indulge in this exercise of identifying the spots and locations 
May be I am wrong, I have identified Marredpally, the Greenlands Road in front of Hyderabad Public School among others ;) Krishnavamsi admittedly seems to be paying a tribute to those galli-steadycam shots by having a scene with a crying child somewhere in the background in most of his movies! Isn’t the scene with Subalekha Sudhakar being chased and hacked to death with minimal BGM breathtaking? No pun intended
Santosh again comming to the point, RGV’s role was not just as a director, as a movie producer, he mentored many others like ‘Siva’ Nageswara Rao, Krishna Vamsi, Poori Jagannath, Teja. KV gave his best when RGV was still making Telugu cinema, post 2000, KV’s work has not been too great barring Murari and now Sasirekha Parinayam. RGV was a kind of mentor to these people guiding them, supporting them, helping them. I can say for sure had Pokiri been produced under RGV’s banner, with Poori directing it, the movie would have been a classic. In recent times i recall Trivikram’s Athadu, being influenced by RGV’s style.
Also the profile of students has changed in college. We grew up living with caste politics, group rivalry, and RGV’s movies struck a chord with us. Nowadays in most of the colleges, the main focus of the students is to get a visa and migrate to US, so you really dont have that kind of atmosphere to come up with a Shiva again. Shiva struck a chord, because the colleges then were like that, students comming in cycles, not too serious about studies, bunking classes. In sharp contrast today most of the students come on bikes, and their primary aim is GRE or CAT or GMAT. So a Happy Days is more likely to strike a chord.
One more thing too, previously Hyderabad had the Old City, and the new City. While both of them were different, the gap between them was not too wide. Even the more modern part of Hyderabad, had those bastis, pretty much reminiscient of the old cities. The dadagiri culture was as much prevalent in the modern part of the city, as it was in the older areas. I mean an area like Khairatabad, though technically belonging to the New Hyderabad, is almost like the Old City.
But with Cyberabad comming along, there have been 3 divisions, Old City, New City and the Cyberabad area. Cyberabad area as in Madhapur, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills, Panjagutta, and the suburbs like Alwal. Cyberabad is totally cut off from Hyderabad, culturally and otherwise, it is the place where people hang out at Coffee Day or Baristas rather than the Irani cafe, and prefer Pizza Hut over a good ole Biryani dish. But since thats where the money is, movie makers are naturally targetting that segment. Thats the reason most of the Telugu movies you see nowadays are shot extensively that side or focus on that segment.
Santosh- yes the scene mentioned by ( S.S being chased ) is indeed great to watch.Yeah even I try to identify the spots and locations.But there’s no shot of a crying child in the background in
atleast not that I remember seeing it.Anyways the movis is mainly shot in Rajahmundry & Vijayawada and not Hyd.
Sasirekha Parinayam- Krishna Vamsi’s latest
That one scene in shiva really stands out. The way he grabs the cycle chain – the camera work and nagarjuna’s expressions – were just so cool. Havent watched it in almost 20 years. Time to see it again…you tube
Can’t believe its been 20 years since i saw this film..
Another intesting thing about this film is we won’t see Bhavani character on screen till first 50 minutes of screen time. Till then we know about Bhavani from other characters and formed him in our own imagination.
Probably RGV might have inspired from JAWS,where we won’t see shart for almost 45 mins or so. In fact, there was scene,lead scene before Amala B’day treat song (Kiss me Hello wrong number), where Nag is in bad mood and Amala imitates his gestures..Definitely its inspired from Jaws..(between Police chief and his son at dinner table)
Narcissist: That chase sequence was not shot in Koty bylanes..I think its in Yusufguda,near Ameerpet.
Gopal, very valid point you have raised there. Yes the way RGV builds up the Bhavani character was fantastic, we first get to know of his background from the inspector, and then from other people around. But am not sure if Jaws was much of an inspiration here.
I remember seeing Shiva in Calcutta on video with my office colleagues, all young, hep, MBA guys. While Nagarjuna’s first punch impressed every guy in the room,(”Wow, he’s mean, man!”, said one MBA) the biggest surprise to all of them was Bhavani. Yes, the late Raghuvaran. For a long time in the movie, one only hears about Bhavani, but when he is finally shown, he just listens to his henchmen and utters one dialogue, “Tilakdhari ko phone karo.” You should have seen the reaction in that room. “F@#k, what a voice!,” shouted one guy, “Go back again.” And somebody stopped the tape, rewound it and played again.
Bhavani blew the daylights off these guys.
And they made a beeline for the theatre the next day, to experience the film on a larger canvas.
SHIVA was a trendsetter, all right. I too, can forgive RGV even if he makes AAG-Part 2.
To be honest, I rate SHIVA as his No.1 film. Satya and Company as No.2 & 3.
Hope some miracle happens and the old RGV makes a comeback.
Mohanlal, well Shiva reached out to the hep crowd in a way few movies did. Raghuvaran is a brilliant actor, pity he passed away. Very few cud play the nasty guy as well as he did. Well i would rate Satya as No 1, i mean Shiva was raw at places, but for me Satya was where he totally perfected his technique.
One of the movie, which i vividly remember when i was a child.I do not about college but we were in school.
Man if i would like to define one scene of decade , it would be have to be the cycle chain , it still give goosebumps.
i remember a funny incident.i was teenager and went to friends house, he was crying, i was told that he wants to see “Shiva”(Hindi Version), finally after lots of drama his mother gave money for two of us. Till then i was unaware of the phenomenon of “Shiva”.
Oh excellent article boss….Thnx for writing such a wonderful article about a genius RGV..He changed Indian cinema…who can forget his shiva,sathya and company….
Ratnakar,
Nice Post, Well detailed description of the movie. I was in school, may in 5th grade, when i saw the Hindi version of Shiva on Cable. Well two of my fav. scenes were the one in which his friend writes the name SHIVA on the wall, and the scene in which the SHIVA meets Bhavani for the first time.
The cliche-”Its different”- was the reason that the movie stand out. I clearly remember the scene in which SHIVA pulls out the cycle chain to beat SATYA, in the college scene u mentioned, as one of the stand out RGV scene till now.
I was accustomed to see movies in which one can fast forward all the action scenes, songs and the rape scenes and still it didnt make an iota of difference to the movies. But SHIVA made you watch every scene.
1989 SHIVA, 1999 SATYA, 2009………
Shreyansh, Shiva was a movie that was totally different, see that particular scene where he pulls out the cycle chain, not much BGM, just the sound of the wheel, and the chain being pulled out, whew what an effect that was. Dont think i cud ever afford to FF any scenes in Shiva, except some of the songs.
Ratnakar seriosuly man reading all this makes me feel we can go on & on and discuss the movie or Hyderabad like we see no tomorrow
thats why we are all passionate I guess.
Sethu but seriously, very few directors have explored Hyderabad the way RGV did. Nagesh Kukunoor did brilliantly in Hyderabad Blues. Shekar Kammula, for me focuses only on the Cyberabad side, i mean it shows only one side. For me the real Hyderabad is all about the Irani Cafes, the gallis, the kite flying during Jan, the strange language. Most of SK’s movies show a very sanitized version.
Ratnakar,
What a write up, I can share a few nuggets here. I was studying in my intermediate when this movie was released, we were actually discussing about the movie posters, even the posters were different from the standard fare being dished those days. Coming to the media, I remember a full page ad in eenadu last page on the 100th day, nothing but the chain and the title and all other posters like, hit, super hit in the dustbin.
Read somewhere in an interview that the initial scene was actually a real incident that happened in the Vijayawda’s Siddhartha Engg college where he studied.
My dad who stopped watching movies for a long time actually came to the theater to watch this film after reading one dialogue that goes like ” I am not a greta man like gandhi to show the other slap ”
Yuo brought back all my memories and cant beliebve its 20 years already.
@ Vijay, yeah even remember the pretty minimalistic style of the poster, and the silhouttes. Also in that scene where Ganesh meets Shiva, RGV just uses the sound of the fire burning in the stove, to create the effect. Yes actually Shiva was based on RGV’s real life college experiences. Vijayawada during the 80’s was a notorious place, with street fights breaking out regularly between the Ranga and Nehru gangs. That spread even to the campuses.
I am a hardcore RGV fan! Have seen Shiva umpteen times!
Bhavani: “Shiva Shiva Shiva, evadra Shiva, rendu lorryla janlani teskoni champeyandra”
Tanikella Bharani: “Champamlem Sar..”
(Not exact dailogue, but this was used in discussions wherever I went & thats the turning point of the film)
and Ratnakar I was one of the lucky guys to see RGV at keyes high school during the shooting..I was returning from school, my friend B.Karthik showed me the director and I was amazed to see a short guy with specs discussing something with Subhalekha Sudhakar…I was amazed…ppl climbed the trees to have a look at Nag…
I think one scene which really is outstanding is the scene where Shiva carries the body of Ganesh to Bhavani…the scene the taking the BGM…were far ahead of times…
Main Ratnam was actually impressed with RGV for showing Nag in a completely contrast to what he had shown in Geetanjali, they met and exchanged ideas…and became friends…Gayam was written by Mani and Thiruda,Thiruda was written by RGV…the latter bombed…but thier friendship continued till Dil Se…
Sirdhar, Gaayam is one of my favorite RGV movies, and a very underrated one i feel. In fact more than Sarkaar, this was his first homage to The Godfather. Gaayam had a lot of Godfather influence
* Jagapathibabu breaking up with Revathi, was similiar to the spilt between Michael and Kay.
* again Jagapathibabu takes over the leadership of the Gang after his brother’s death, much like Michael does in Godfather.
* The opening scene where a girl’s father comes to seek justice for his daughter who has been raped and commited suicide, is again similiar to Godfather.
The shot taking, dialogues in that movie are just brilliant. Kota has done many roles, but his best performance would be as Guru Narayan in Gaayam. Same with Brahmanandam’s Michael Jackson character in Anaganaga Oka Roju. That man is a Genius.
Dil Se was a collaboration between RGV, Mani and Shekar Kapoor, they started India Talkies, but after the movie failed, it was disbanded.
U know shiva was inspired by which movie?
Shreyansh, at the most it had some influences of Arjun, but no way i cud say it was a copy or an inspiration from any movie.
wonderful post….a great read….walking through my old memories…
@ Ratnakar….Believe it or not, its basic story has taken from “Enter the Dragon”.
An oustider comes in a new city, takes “panga” with the local goons, elliminates the leader’s man one by obe and kills the leader in the end.
Strikes a chord???
Shreyansh, in that case i can list half a dozen movies with the same storyline. Sorry but the comparison makes no sense here at all.
BTW Enter the Dragon, is not about an outsider entering a new city, he is rather invited there, and in fact his mission is to find his missing sister, who he believes is there.
thanks ratnakar. great article boss. mazaa agaya.
this is definitely one of my all time fave movies ever… in telugu.
The car starts and the smoke envelops the screen – and the titles begin. I love the way RGV rolled over the opening credits.
The chain scene with JD, the painting on the wall – writing SHIVA, of course the intorduction of Bhavani, showing his face in the dim light of the lighter, the knuckleduster scene with Ganesh in the cafe and how RGV shot it through the flame of the stove and its noise, nanaji’s entrance into the police station and his first encounter with Shiva, amazing chase scene in hyderabadi galli’s and bylanes,subalekha sudhakar’s chase scene, naresh getting his head bashed…. Man, I can go on and on. This is definitely a masterpiece. I remember, I was in middle school, when this came out and man,,, did it change everything there was about movies. I remember walking out of Devi 70 MM , all pumped up …. hehee…
RGV,followed this masterpiece with Kshana Kshanam, Ratri and Antham.
I really hope and wish RGV starts gets his touch back and starts making some amazing movies, which I am very sure, he is capable of. I am not ready to give up on him…, ever some very dumb and “are you kidding me?” sort of movies of late……
@bipin
I dont believe nobody mention “kshana kshanam”. So cool. I dont understand telugu and with no subtitles, i watched KK with a telugu speaking friend. He didnt have to translate even once for me. And the villian paresh rawal was so cool. I was ROFL in his scenes. Inspite of sri devi overacting ( irritating ) in many scenes, it was just plain cool. Must watch of RGV. I lost confidence in RGV after “rangeela” and
“thiruda thiruda” ( two junk movies – ARR saved them ).
I have not seen “satya” and “company”. Hearing so many good things…will check it out…
thiruda thiruda is mani ratnam film not RGV’s
Ratnakar,
I Enter The Dragon, Bruce Lee is invited all right for the martial arts tournament on Han’s Island, but he doesn’t go there to loacte his missing sister. His sister is already dead, as established in the flashback, where he is even shown to pay his respects at the graveyard. He goes to seek revenge. At the graveyard, he even says that what he’s about to do is “contrary to all that he has been taught(at the Shaolin temple)…and he adds, “Please try to find a way to forgive me.”
first look of RGV’s next AGYAAT is out on his blog..check it guys!
Guys I think you people forgot one more scene which a became brand itself. Its the scene at railway gate. after movie released there were stickers of that scene (shiva standing with his friends behind railway gate)everywhere.