Dhruva (2016 film)

Dhruva
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Surender Reddy
Produced by	Allu Aravind N. V. Prasad
Written by	Vema Reddy (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Surender Reddy
Story by	Mohan Raja
Based on	Thani Oruvan by Mohan Raja
Starring	Ram Charan Arvind Swamy Rakul Preet Singh
Music by	Hiphop Tamizha
Cinematography	P. S. Vinod
Edited by	Naveen Nooli
Production company	Geetha Arts
Distributed by	Geetha Arts
Release date	9 December 2016 (2016-12-09)
Running time	165 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹50 crore
Box office	est. ₹87.55 crore

Dhruva is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language film directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind under his banner Geetha Arts. It features Ram Charan, Arvind Swamy and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles. It is a remake of Tamil film Thani Oruvan (2015). The movie was released worldwide on 9 December 2016.

A low-level party cadre Chengalrayudu is tying a flag to a street-lamp post. Suddenly his pregnant wife goes into labour, but he completely ignores it, as he is more dedicated to his leader and party. At the same time, the party's deputy leader visits the locality; as soon as he comes to know about this incident, the leader lends his car and orders his driver to immediately take the pregnant lady to the hospital; she delivers a baby boy named Venkanna before they get to the hospital. At the age of fifteen, Venkanna secures first rank in his 10th standard state exam and visits the party deputy-leader, now the chairman of the party and a member of the ruling coalition for his blessings with his father. While they are waiting in the party office for the leader to come in, they witness a murder of a rebel party candidate by their own revered leader due to caste-related comments by the rebel on him. When the leader asks Chengalrayudu to take the blame by saying that he killed the man due to rage about the rebel's comments, Venkanna volunteers to take the blame and is willing to go to jail, citing the leniency of juvenile laws in exchange for an MLA seat for his father in the upcoming by-election. The deal is agreed and carried out.

15 years later, trainee IPS officers Dhruva and his friends, discreetly assist the police in catching a gang which kidnapped four girls. One day Dhruva receives a cryptic text message on his phone from an anonymous number stating that he/she is aware of their discreet activities. In the evening, they go out to meet that person who is revealed to be Ishika, who loves Dhruva. Later that same night they happen to witness the murder of a man who is a social activist with the pretense of snatch theft. Dhruva and his friend catch the gang and their leader and hand them over to the police; however, four days later the leader of the gang comes to the IPS headquarters with the home minister. This political and organised crime comes as a shock to Dhruva and his friends. Dhruva takes them to his house and shows his research on connecting all small unrelated incidents into the global view of a hidden network of politicians, industrialists and criminals who bend the law for their own financial benefits. He singles out three prominent business oligarchs (a pharmaceutical mogul, a mineral magnate and a don). When he tries following one he realises that all three of them work as a group and they all work for a scientist Siddharth Abhimanyu. After the completion of his training, Dhruva is awarded medals for specializing in dealing with organized crime during training and also for being the best probationer of the batch, and is posted as the ASP of the Organized Crime Unit.