Buddhimantudu

The film begins in a village, where Madhavacharya (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) an ardent devotee of Lord Krishna (Sobhan Babu) works as a temple priest, everyone in the village admire as they believe that he encounters with the Lord. Madhavaiah too gets mystic experiences whenever he views Lord's statue whereas, his younger brother, Gopi (again Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a riff-raff who spends life as the frolic. Nevertheless, he is a kind at heart and struggles for the welfare of villagers. Seshadri (Nagabhushanam), the village head is a baseness person who creates a lot of atrocities to which Gopi stands as a barrier while Madhavaiah believes him as a wise person and respects. Meanwhile, Gopi falls in love with a charming girl Radha (Vijaya Nirmala) daughter of Seshadri's sister Kaveramma (Rukmini), in her acquaintance, Gopi reforms and turns into a straight arrow. Eventually, Krishna (Krishnam Raju) son of Seshadri walks in his father's footsteps and traps the village School Teacher's (Bhanu Prakash) daughter Kasturi (Sandhya Rani). Now Gopi & Radha decides to pair up but they are afraid of their elders' castism yet, stands strong.

At that time, Gopi's old friends' forcibly takes him to carouse. Exploiting it, Seshadri poses Gopi as debauchery before Radha when she loathes him. Even Madhavaiah also necks out him on the provocation of Seshadri and gives their old ruined building as his share. Ahead, malevolent Seshadri scatters bad propaganda against Radha and denounce Gopi which leads to Kaveramma's death. Right now, Seshadri plans to perform Radha's marriage with Krishna to grab her property. Parallelly, Gopi renovates his building and transforms it as a school building to service the villagers. Due to which Seshadri removes Madhavaiah as the priest and handovers the keys. Distressed Madhavaiah goes into illusion and feels as if Lord Krishna too accompanied him. Knowing it, furious Gopi revolts against Seshadri get back the keys when Seshadri intrigues by stealing the temple ornaments and orders his henchmen Ramalingam (Allu Ramalingaiah) to bury it in the Gopi's premises. But cunning Ramalingam double crosses and snatches the jewelry. Next day, Gopi is indicted and when they are in search, a treasure of Madhavaiah & Gopi's ancestors is dug out where both the brothers argue to utilize it one for the temple another for the school.

At that moment, Seshadri again ploys to capture the treasure, so, decides to conduct the elections and both the parties strongly campaign. Here Gopi breaks out the secret of temple robbery through Ramalingam when Radha learns the virtue of Gopi. During that time, Krishna runs away with the treasure and kidnaps Radha when Gopi rescues and makes Krishna aware of his mistake. At that point in time, Gopi's group without his knowledge challenges with Madhavaiah to show a miracle by lifting the dome of the temple into the air if God really exists which Madhavaiah accepts and Seshadri accuses him of the act. Disturbed Madhavaiah locks himself in the temple where Lord Krishna also preaches him that God will not respond for evildoers when Madhavaiah protests against Lord. At that juncture, Gopi understands his brother will not survive until the miracle happens, so, he lifts the dome from the backside of the temple. Immediately, Madhavaiah cools down and when he spots Gopi, enlightens that Lord performed the miracle through his brother and also realizes serving people is equivalent to offering God. At last, they utilize the treasure for the welfare of people and Seshadri gets arrested. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Gopi & Radha.

Music composed by K. V. Mahadevan. Music released on Audio Company.[6] The song Badilo Emundi summing up the essence of the film was an instant hit[7]

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