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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 ...

, written and directed by Fazil, produced by

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under his Jagapathi Art Pictures banner. It stars

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and the music was composed by

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Plot

The movie starts with goons chasing a pregnant woman. Mary, a nurse, helps her, and a boy Eeswar, is born. As the goons find her location, Mary escapes with the child, and a pregnant woman is killed by the goons. Mary takes the child to her house despite having two sons and raises him along with them. Nancy is born to Mary after a while, and Eeswar discovers that Mary is not his biological mother. Due to financial problems, Mary sends Eeswar to an orphanage. Eeswar faces many struggles in the orphanage and becomes an adamant guy who bashes people for money. In that same course, he bashes a police officer. Meanwhile, he gets into a fight with BhupatiRaja's goons. BhupatiRaja knowing about Eeswar offers a huge amount of money to kill Malavika and Sneha at a time within 15 days who live in Hyderabad. Eeswar visits Mary and gives her some money for her treatment and medicines. Mary asks Eeswar about the source of money and warns him not to involve in any illegal activities. Eeswar goes to Hyderabad and fails to kill Malavika and Sneha. Meanwhile, he notices Priya entering Malavika's building and falls in love with her. He follows Priya to enter Malavika's house. So Eeswar manipulates Priya's family as PremKrishna, who is a foreign return. He manipulates Priya and makes her fall for him. Priya reveals that Malavika is her mother's dearest friend, so she has to accept Prem as her fiancé. Meanwhile, Priya discusses her love for Malavika and takes Prem to Malavika's house. Malavika meets Prem, talks with him, and likes him. Malavika invites Prem for lunch. Prem tries to kill them but narrowly evades capture. Meanwhile, BhupatiRaja's son Banerjee meets Eeswar and hands him a flower bouquet that has a bomb fixed to it, and instructs him that it should be exploded by 6:30 p.m. Eeswar goes to Sneha and hands the bouquet to her. Meanwhile, Malavika reveals that she will donate all her assets to the orphanage as BhupatiRaja (Malavika's cousin) is trying to kill them. She also reveals that her husband was appointed as chairman to stop the religious conflicts caused because of BhupatiRaja, who wants to become a leader by bringing down the Government. Malavika's husband prepares a file against BhupatiRaja to hand over to the home minister. BhupatiRaja warns Malavika to return that file to him. But Malavika's husband hands over that file and a case are booked against BhupatiRaja, who is confirmed as accused by the court and sentenced to twelve years in jail. Knowing that BhupatiRaja kills Malavika's husband, Eeswar's father, and mother (Malavika's brother and sister-in-law). As Sneha (the daughter of Malavika's brother) is the only heiress of the property, BhupatiRaja wants to kill both Malavika and Sneha. Knowing this, Eeswar grows a soft corner over them and drops the thought of killing them. Knowing this, Bhpati Raja kidnaps Eeswar's sister and warns him that he would only leave her if he brings Sneha. Leaving with no option, Eeswar kidnaps Sneha and takes him to BhupatiRaja. Knowing this, Malavika goes to Eeswar's house and threatens Mary. Mary reveals that Eeswar's father is Prasad. Malavika realizes that Eeswar is her brother's son. Eeswar fights with goons and saves his sister and Sneha. Finally, Malavika and Eeswar are reunited, and Malavika tells the truth that he is her nephew.

Cast

as Prem Krishna / Eeswar Prasad *

as Priya * Sharada as Malavika * Vijayakumar as Bhupathi Raja * Allu Ramalingaiyah as Priya's grandfather * Nirmalamma as Priya's grandmother *

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as S. I. Brahmanandam * Ahuti Prasad as Raja *

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as Banerjee *

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as Malavika's husband * Narayana Rao as Ravindra Prasad * Suthi Velu as Nookaraju * Kadambari Kiran as theatre artist * Chidatala Appa Rao as theatre artist * Chitti Babu as theatre artist * Sreedhar Surapaneni as Bhupati Raja's assistant * Hussain * Narsing Yadav as chief security officer *

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as Mary *

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as Rama Devi *

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as Nancy * Jyothi as Lalitha * Nirmalamma as Priya's grandmother *

Baby Shamili Shamlee, also known as Baby Shamili/Shamlee, (born 10 July 1987), is an Indian actress who has worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam films. Her roles include the mentally challenged child Anjali in the 1990 film '' Anjali'', for which ...

as Sneha *

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as Inspector Mohan

Soundtrack

The music for the film was composed by

with lyrics by

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. It was released by LEO Audio company.

Release

The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as ''Eashwar'' in October 1992.

References

External links

* {{Fazil (director) 1992 films 1990s Telugu-language films Films scored by Ilaiyaraaja Films directed by Fazil Indian action thriller films Films about contract killing in India 1992 action thriller films