Ooriki Monagadu

Ooriki Monagadu
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Directed by	K. Raghavendra Rao
Starring	Krishna Jaya Prada
Music by	K. Chakravarthy
Release date	1981
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Ooriki Monagadu is a 1981 Telugu drama film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. The film stars Krishna and Jaya Prada in the lead roles. It was remade in Bollywood as Himmatwala in 1983 and as Himmatwala in 2013.

Master Dharma Murti witnesses a murder of a man at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala. But Sher Singh with his might, terror and money sets free. In revenge he places Dharam Murti in an awkward position with a lady teacher, Menaka. Dharam Murti ashamed of this vacates his village and abandons his wife & children. His wife Savitri helps her son Ravi (Krishna) become an engineer who then resolves to fight against Bandookwala and get his father's spoilt reputation back. Bandookwala has terrorised all the villagers. His daughter Rekha (Jaya Prada) follows his footsteps and grows into an insensitive woman who tries to harass people. Ravi's sister Padma has to marry munimji's son Shakti as she is pregnant with his child. After marriage, Shakti and Bandookwala together start harassing Padma. Rekha falls in love with Ravi and decides to play same trick against the Bandookwala by pretending to be pregnant with Ravi's child. Ravi finds his father as a worker on a dam construction site. Ravi then presents Bandookwala guilty before the panchayat but is freed by Dharam Murti on condition that he should show affection to the poor and treat them well. Finally Bandookwala becomes a good man and then Ravi marries Rekha.

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