Babu Bangaram

Babu Bangaaram
Film poster
Directed by	Maruthi
Produced by	S. Naga Vamshi P. D. V. Prasad S. Radha Krishna (Presenter)
Written by	Darling Swamy (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Maruthi
Story by	Maruthi
Starring	Venkatesh Nayanthara
Music by	Ghibran
Cinematography	Richard Prasad
Edited by	S. B. Uddav
Production company	Sitara Entertainments
Distributed by	Haarika & Hassine Creations
Release date	12 August 2016 (2016-08-12)
Running time	150 mins
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹28 crore (US$4.2 million)
Box office	₹46.2 crore (US$6.9 million)

Babu Bangaram (English: Golden Boy) is a 2016 Telugu action romantic comedy film, produced by S. Naga Vamshi, P. D. V. Prasad on Sitara Entertainments banner, written and directed by Maruthi. Starring Venkatesh, Nayanthara in the lead roles and music composed by Ghibran.

The film was launched on 16 December 2015 in Hyderabad and principle photography began the following day. The first look poster of the film was released on 7 April 2016 on the eve of Ugadi.

Babu Bangaram obtained a U/A from the censor board. The film had a worldwide release on 12 August 2016 amid much fanfare. The film was simultaneously released with a Tamil dubbed version titled Selvi.

ACP Krishna (Venkatesh) who is a kind-hearted man who has a lot of empathy even towards criminals. Sailaja (Nayanthara) is the daughter of an accused person Sastry (Jaya Prakash) for a murder, wanted by the police and hiding somewhere. Sailaja runs her family with a catering business and struggling for her 4 sisters and grandmother (Shavukar Janaki) on one side and on another side she is facing an existential threat from Mallesh Yadav (Sampath Raj) a big goon who is a henchman of MLA Puchappa (Posani Krishna Murali) who are after Sastry. One more thing that suffers her is Bathayi Babji (Pruthvi) her maternal uncle’s son who tortures her every day to marry him.

Once Krishna meets Sailaja when she is in sorrow mood and the sympathy inside him works out and falls in love with her at first sight itself. Afterward, he comes to know regarding her problems and Sailaja hates the police. So he hides his identity, targets Bathayi Babji, traps him with some comic tricks, introduces himself to Sailaja as a common man with Babji's help and starts helping her & family. In this process, they develop a bond and Sailaja also starts loving him. But Krishna’s real agenda is completely different. He has been appointed by Commissioner (Murali Sharma) to catch Sailaja father Sastry. That’s why he had made this entire plan.

Meanwhile, Sailaja’s grandmother collapses with the heart attack and she wants to see her son Sastry, Krishna forces Sailaja to call her father, by giving an assurance he makes her do so. But his actual motive is to catch him. Sastry visits to the hospital when Krishna tries to arrest he listens to the good impression that Sailaja & family having on him, so he is not able to arrest him but suddenly a C.I. (Brahmaji) assistant to Krishna enters the scene and surrounds Sastry and reveals the entire truth regarding Krishna. Sastry escapes from there but he is suddenly attacked by goons of MLA Puchappa & Mallesh Yadav and he is seriously injured and goes into the coma, Krishna protects him and joins in the hospital. But when Sailaja comes to know the real motive of Krishna, she starts hating him and asks him to never show his face, things get upset between the couple and they break up with each other.