Mrugaraju

In a jungle, there is a construction project going for making a railway's bridge. In the downwards Maa Durga statue found they put away the statue and many workers saying it's going wrong Maa Durga will punishes us. In that night a lion come and attack in the Chief engineer. The worker believed that the punishment started. The railway department asks Aishwarya (Simran) to go on the mission of constructing the bridge. Even after Aishwarya resumes the building, the lion starts terrorizing the crew of the construction team. Raju (Chiranjeevi), the ace hunter of Adavipalli, is entrusted with the job of hunting the lion.

The rest of the first half is all about how Raju traps the lion and kills it at the cost of Appanna Dora (Nagendra Babu). But the other lion in the jungle becomes enraged at Raju for killing its companion. There is another trouble for the bridge project in the form of a forest ranger (Surya) and a local smuggler (Rami Reddy). Raju gets rid of these two goons by the interval.

Then it's revealed to the viewers that Aishwarya is Raju's wife. In the second half, the flashback is revealed. Raju comes to city to participate in the crafts fair to sell his herbs from the jungle. There, he meets Aishwarya, who has come to visit a fun stall along with her fiancé Vicky (Raja Ravindra). When Aishwarya tries to take a shot at shooting a balloon, Vicky disappoints her saying that she cannot do it. Raju, who is an onlooker, comes forward and gives her confidence and tips to shoot. Then Aishwarya's bullet hits the bull's eye. Impressed with Raju's help, she invites him to come to her engagement party.

At the party, Raju spots Vicky flirting with another girl and tells him about the importance of being a good human being. Aishwarya watches the entire episode from behind, and she decides that Raju is a loyal man compared to the flirtatious Vicky. She seeks Raju's hand and they get married. Aishwary a father cunningly separates the couple by creating misunderstandings. After this scene Aishwarya gets a letter from childcare office that her daughter feeling very upset without her. After the misunderstanding of between the couple then Aishwarya know that she became pregnant. After few days her daughter is coming to her. When Raju knows that she have daughter she became so happy. When she come Aishwarya don't let him to go close his father. When Raju dad and mom listen that her grand daughter come they become too much crazy for him but Aishwarya also don't give the permit touch his daughter.That night the man-eating lion again come and started hunting when Raju daughter targeted by the lion raju's dad and mom gone to save their grand daughter. They saved their grand daughter but they no more before died they told their daughter-in-law what her dad cheat with both of them for his reputation.

In the next morning all the workers leave their jobs and went back to their home. Afterwards Raju daughter lost in the forest and both the couple start searching of her in the time of dawn the found their daughter standing in front of the man-eating lion Raju go to save his daughter at the last he killed the lion.

• Director: Gunasekhar
• Producer: Devi Vara Prasad
• Music: Mani Sharma
• Cinematography: Sekhar V. Joseph
• Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
• Art: Ashok Kumar
• Assistant Director: Yadagiri
• Stunts: Vijayan
• Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Chandrabose & Bhuvana Chandra

The soundtrack of the film was composed by Mani Sharma.[1] The album consists of six songs. Lyrics for the three songs were penned by Veturi Sundararama Murthy and the remaining three songs were written by Chandrabose, Kulasekhara and Bhuvanachandra.

Full Hyderabad wrote "Save for the phenomenal photography, there is nothing new about the film. Except for the part of Chiranjeevi trying to tame the lions, which has been photographed wonderfully, the story is quite contrived. What keeps the film afloat is the adventure drama, but unfortunately the director decides to sink his ship with a flashback that doesn't seem to end, contributing to tears and heartache."[2] Idlebrain wrote "As story is plain and simple, a lot would depend upon screenplay to make the film gripping and interesting. But Guna Sekhar failed stitch the scenes in perfect manner. And he tried to ape the original film in most of the scenes, which resulted in poor copying as we lack the special FX finesse the Hollywood boast of".[3]

• Mrigaraju at IMDb