Narasimha Naidu

Narasimha Naidu
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	B. Gopal
Produced by	M. V. Murali Krishna
Written by	Paruchuri Brothers (dialogues)
Screenplay by	Chinni Krishna
Story by	Chinni Krishna
Starring	Nandamuri Balakrishna Simran Preeti Jhangiani Asha Saini
Music by	Mani Sarma
Cinematography	V.S.R. Swamy
Edited by	Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Production company	Venkata Ramana Productions
Release date	11 January 2001 (2001-01-11)
Running time	161 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹8 crore (US$1.2 million)
Box office	₹50 crore (US$7.4 million)

Narasimha Naidu is a 2001 Telugu, action drama film produced by M. V. Murali Krishna on Venkata Ramana Productions banner, directed by B. Gopal. Starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Simran, Preeti Jhangiani, Asha Saini in the lead roles and music composed by Mani Sarma. The film recorded as All Time Industry Hit at box office. It was remade into Tamil as Ezhumalai starring Arjun Sarja, Simran. The film was dubbed into Hindi titled Sabse Bada Jungbaaz.

There are two neighboring villages in Rayalaseema. Goons head one village and Raghupati Naidu (K Vishwanath) is heading another village. As Raghupati Naidu is peace-loving, his village is dogged by the misdeeds of goons from the neighboring village. In order to save the future of his village, Raghupati Naidu asks one male kid from each family to be given for the purpose of saving the village. Raghupati Naidu selected his fourth son Narasimha Naidu as his family's contribution towards the security of the village. All these kids will be trained and prepared to protect the village. After 15 years, Anjali (Preeti Jhangiani), the niece of Jaya Prakash, who happens to be from the goons' village who later settled in another village. Narasimha Naidu sets up a naatya ashram to teach classical dance to the students. Anjali falls in love with Narasimha Naidu at the first sight. Anjali joins Narasimha Naidu as the student and tries to make Narasimha Naidu fall in love with her.

Later on, she comes to know that Narasimha Naidu is already married and he has a kid too who is growing in the ashram. Narasimha Naidu is a widower as his wife Sravani (Simran) is no more. Anjali tries to get closer to the kid so that she can then marry Narasimha Naidu. The parents of Anjali fix up the marriage of Anjali with one of their relatives. When the uncle of Anjali comes to know that she is in love with a widowed dance master; he attacks him and threatens him that he would kill the kid. When they find Anjali missing, the entire battalion of goons invades the ashram of dance master only to find that he flew away.