'Friction' or 'Clash') is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film produced by G. Sivaraju, C. Venkatraju, and Kalaipuli S. Thanu.

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.

One day, a school teacher named, Maya, rebuffs Ram's routine questions regarding safety, not knowing that he is a police officer.

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.

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.

Dass' gang, aided by Panda's planning, commit major kidnappings in the city and become very powerful in a period of six months.

Whilst in the hospital, they receive a call from Panda, to meet him at Zaherabad, 100 kilometers away from Hyderabad, located on the National Highway 9.

When they go there, two packages are thrown to them from an oncoming train, one containing Sandhya's severed head and the other one containing Maya's arm flesh.

A few months later, Ram, after the death of his fellow squadmates and friends, still continues his job as an IPS officer.

The ending scene features Ram calling out to Maya, who is shown to have survived Panda's attack.

Gautham Menon subsequently remade the film in the Telugu language for producer Venkata Raju.

[5] All lyrics are written by KulasekharJeevi of Idlebrain.com wrote: "The second half starts in an interesting style and it loses the steam as the climax approaches.