Hema Hemeelu

The film revolves around a valuable heritage diamond crown that belongs to a royal dynasty. It's heritor Raja Ranga Prasad (Mikkilineni) leads a happy family life with his wife Rajeswari Devi (Pandari Bai), two twin boys Raghuveer & Ramachandra and a baby girl Vijaya. Diwanji Sivaramaiah (Gummadi) is the true-blue, faithful & devoted person of the royal dynasty lives along with his wife Parvati (Pushpa Kumari), son Raja and daughter Seeta. Bhujangam (Tyagaraju) heinous brother-in-law of Ranga Prasad tries to seize the crown for which he abducts Ranga Prasad and attacks to destroy the royal dynasty. Knowing it, Diwanji rushes to rescue the heirs, in that mishap, everyone gets detached Diwanji, Rajeswari Devi, Raghuveer, Vijaya drop on one side and Parvati, Ramachandra & Seeta to another whereas Raja is raised by a wise person Srinivasa Rao (P.J.Sarma). Years roll by, Raghuveer (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) flames up with avenge against the homicides of his father, in that process, he turns into a daredevil gangster Red Lion with several associates Ganagaram (Giribabu) & Lilly (Jayamalini). Meanwhile, another dreadful gangster Black Cat (Satyanarayana), supposed to be Bhujangam's son finds out that the crown is secured in a bank locker and purloins it. During that time, the Bank Agent is slain out by him who is Raja's foster father.

Thereupon, Red Lion winds up Black Cat acquires the crown and conceals it. Being cognizant of his father's death Raja (Krishna) burst out and arrives as one more gangster with an identity Knight King. Here Black Cat falsifies Knight King by posing Red Lion as the culprit when rivalry arises between them. Once in their combat, the Black Cat backstabs Raghuveer and he dies. During that plight, desperate Diwanji fortunately, spots Ramachandra (again Akkineni Nageswara Rao) the identical twin of Raghuveer who has just married Seeta (Zarina Wahab). Immediately, Diwanji lifts him, reveals the entire story, trains and replaces him as Raghuveer. Parallelly, Raja & Vijaya (Vijaya Nirmala) get acquainted and fell in love. After some time, Ramachandra learns regarding the activities of Red Lion, also mistakes Knight King as the slaughterer and decides to move in the footsteps of his brother. Eventually, grief-stricken Seeta lands in search of her husband when she is hooked by Black Cat and Raja rescues her. Thereafter, he identifies her as his sister and aims to get back her husband. At present, Raja discovers Raghuveer is only Seeta's husband Ramachandra, as well as, Ramachandra knows regarding the love affair of Raja & Vijaya. There onwards, both of them tangles on each other, but ultimately, the truth comes forward. Finally, the movie ends Red Lion & Knight King eliminating Black Cat and shielding the crown.

• Art: K. Ramalingeswara Rao
• Choreography: N. Srinivas
• Fights: Raghavulu
• Stills: Bainaa
• Story - Dialogues: Tripuraneni Maharadhi
• Lyrics: C. Narayana Reddy, Acharya Aatreya, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Appalacharya
• Playback: SP Balu, P. Susheela, S. P. Sailaja, Anand
• Music: Ramesh Naidu
• Editing: Adurthi Harinath
• Cinematography: Puphtala Gopi Krishna
• Producer: S. Raghunath
• Screenplay - Director: Vijaya Nirmala
• Presenter: Krishna
• Banner: Sri Vijaya Krishna Movies
• Release Date: 23 March 1979

Music composed by Ramesh Naidu. Music released on SEA Records Audio Company.[5]

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