Bhalevadivi Basu

Bhalevadivi Basu is a 2001 Telugu, drama film produced by Smt Anita Krishna on Sridevi Arts banner, directed by P.A. Arun Prasad. Starring Nandamuri Balakrishna, Anjala Zhaveri, Shilpa Shetty in the lead roles and music composed by Mani Sharma. The movie created a lot of hype since it followed the stupendous hit of Narasimha Naidu and was intended to be an image makeover for Nandamuri Balakrishna from Action Hero to Family Hero. However, the movie met with negative reviews from critics. The film recorded as average grosser at box office.

The second half of the film starts with the imposter relating in the flashback that his real name is Prabhu and he is a petty thief who gets to know a person called Sagar, an intelligent unemployed graduate. Sagar has a mother and sister, who made sacrifices to enable him to graduate. Sagar, now a forest ranger becomes close to Prabhu. When Sagars mother falls ill and she needs one lakh as medical fee Prabhu arranges to get the money by giving a false testimony in court but this misfires and ends in him being imprisoned for life. But he escapes from the police and enters the forest where he sees Sagar severely injured in a car accident. Sagar asks Prabhu to take care of his mother and sister.Since nobody knows the identity of the real Sagar, Prabhu impersonates him as forest ranger where he tries to improve the life of tribal people and ensures that poachers and animal killers are kept at bay. At the same time, pretending to be Sagar he keeps in touch with the Sagars family. ........

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