Tired of her husband's crusade against factional feuds, Thulasi's wife leaves him. However, when their fatally ill son is abducted by factionists, he must resort to violence again.
Acting
Venkatesh sells every unhinged dad moment like his life depends on it
Direction
Boyapati's debut already has his signature: slow-mo + sentiment = cinema
Stunts
Faction fight choreography that absolutely does not care about physics
Director
Boyapati Srinu
Venkatesh
Parvataneni Tulasi Ram
Nayanthara
Vasundhara
Vijayakumar
Dasaradha Ramayya
Ashish Vidhyarthi
Veeranna
Rahul Dev
Basavaraju
Ramya Krishnan
Dr. Surekha
Sivaji Sontineni
Harsha
Ali Basha
Apartment Owner
Ahuti Prasad
Raghavendra
Subbaraju
Ravi
Riyaz Khan
Shankar
Jhansi
Kokapet Aunty
Jayaprakash Reddy
Chandrayya
Raghu Babu
Ravi Babu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Boyapati Srinu's directorial debut, and he reportedly fought hard to cast Venkatesh against his usual soft-family-hero image. The gamble paid off—this film typecast him as 'sentimental action dad' for years.
The 'sick child + faction violence' formula became a Telugu masala staple after this, but Thulasi remains unusually committed to the emotional fallout—Vasundhara doesn't just forgive Thulasi because he wins the final fight.
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