''Aranyakanda'' ( ''Jungle Chapter'') is a 1986

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action thriller film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...

produced by C. Penchal Reddy under the Ushodaya Enterprises banner, and directed by

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. It stars

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, Ashwini,

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. The soundtrack is composed by Chakravarthy.

Plot

The entire story revolves around a forest where the protection of a tribe against a tiger and deadly gangsters by a forest officer Chaitanya. Chaitanya goes to the jungle to solve the case of the tiger killing the local tribals. There, he meets the love birds Sanga and Neeli, but they cannot marry due to caste problems. After going through the case, Chaitanya realizes that the tiger is not harming the people, but there are some cowardly people who are doing all this. The rest of the story forms how he eradicates the evil activities and what he has to pay for them.

Cast

as Chaitanya * Ashwini as Preethi *

as Sangadu * Charan Raj as Bukutha * Prabhakar Reddy as Preethi's father * Rallapalli as Chinna Bukutha * P. J. Sarma as DFO *

Bob Christo Robert John Christo, was an Australian-Indian civil engineer and actor in Hindi films. Starting with Sanjay Khan's ''Abdullah'' (1980), he went on to act in over 200 Hindi films in the 1980s and 1990s, including '' Qurbani'' (1980), '' Kaalia'' ...

as Rowdy *

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as Poornima *

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as Chaitanya's mother *

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as Neeli *

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as Chinna Dorasani

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Chakravarthy. Lyrics were written by

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. The music released on SAPTASWAR Audio Company.

References

External links

* 1987 films Indian action thriller films Films based on Indian novels Films scored by K. Chakravarthy 1980s Telugu-language films Films directed by Kranthi Kumar 1980s action thriller films {{1980s-Telugu-film-stub