Pedarayudu

Pedarayudu
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Directed by	Ravi Raja Pinisetty
Produced by	Mohan Babu
Story by	K. S. Ravikumar
Starring	Rajinikanth Mohan babu Soundarya Bhanupriya
Music by	Koti
Production company	Sree Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures
Release date	15 June 1995
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	₹12 crore (equivalent to ₹50 crore or US$7.8 million in 2016) (Share)

Pedarayudu is a 1995 Indian Telugu drama film directed by the Ravi Raja Pinisetty and starring Mohan Babu. The film had Mohan Babu playing double roles. Tamil super star Rajinikanth appeared in an important role. Soundarya also starred in the film. For his role, Mohan Babu won Filmfare Best Actor Award (Telugu). This film is a Remake of 1994 Tamil film, Nattamai which starred Sarath Kumar, Meena and Kushboo in lead Roles. It was an Industry Hit then with record collections.

Pedarayudu (Mohan Babu) is a very kind-hearted, disciplined man. He sits on the ancestral throne in his village to do justice (similar to panchayat). He hears all the cases and gives solutions and punishments to the wrong-doers. His wife, Lakshmi (Bhanupriya) admires and respects him a lot. His brothers Raja (Mohan Babu) and Ravindra (Raja Ravindra) fear for him and also have a lot of respect for him as he has brought them up as his children. Raja marries Bharathi (Soundarya), daughter of an industrialist (Satyanarayana). She at first never liked Pedarayudu because of his verdicts and attitude and her husband either for being so timid before his brother but later transforms after knowing his greatness from her father. Ravindra loves his paternal cousin, Bhupathi (Anandaraj)'s daughter. In the flashback, Paparayudu (Rajinikanth) father of Pedarayudu orders Bhupathi to marry his servant's daughter whom he raped, though he is his sister (Jayanthi)'s son. His brother-in-law (Chalapathi Rao) shoots him as he is disappointed by his verdict. Enraged Paparayudu gives his final verdict before dying to abandon their family and whoever visits his house will receive the same punishment and also not to share even a glass of water with them. Paparayudu also tells Pedarayudu "Whenever we give a wrong verdict, that moment it is said that we die." At that second when he says that, Paparayudu dies. Bhupathi from then builds envy on his uncle's family and waits for an opportunity to take revenge on them. He plans to bring a lady (Subhashri) as a teacher to the school in the village and tells her to make Raja fall for her. She does so to save her father who is in the hands of Bhupathi. He kills her and makes the villagers believe that Raja has done this. Pedarayudu sentences 10 years of exile for his brother's family. Now Bhupathi comes to know of his daughter's love and tries to kill Ravindra with the help of his goons. Raja goes in rescue of him and pregnant Bharathi goes to Pedarayudu to convey this message. While Raja starts to take revenge on Bhupathi, Pedarayudu's aunt rushes to Pedarayudu, kills Bhupathi and reveals the truth and tells that he punished his brother without committing any mistake and also told that the crimes that were thrown onto Raja were really done by Bhupathi. Then Pedarayudu immediately remembers his father's quote that whenever he gives a wrong verdict, that moment he dies. In that shock, Pedarayudu dies on knowing that he gave a wrong verdict. Now Raja is shown taking the ancestral throne from his brother and he becomes the third person to take over the throne.