Billa (2009 film)

Billa Telugu is a 2009 Telugu gangsterthriller film film directed by Meher Ramesh, a remake of the 2007 Tamil Film of the same name. But some scenes were changed to suit the Telugu audience. It also drew inspirations from the NTRstarring Telugu film, Yugandhar 1979 which drew inspirations from Amitabh Bachchans Hindi film titled Don and one of Rajinikanths 1980 Tamil film with the same title. Prabhas Raju Uppalapati plays the lead role, where he plays dual roles of the characters Billa and Swami Ranga, with Anushka Shetty and Namitha playing the heroines. The film, which began in October 2008, released in April 2009. Actress Jayasudha, who had earlier starred in Yugandhar 1979 as Jaya, the first Telugu remake of Don, has a guest role as Janaki in this film. The film recorded as Hit at the box office.

During a chase with the police Billa is severely wounded after an accident and dies in front of the ACP. The ACP then secretly holds a burial of Billa. Interpol Officer Dharmendra Rahman is assigned to work with the ACP to capture the elusive Billa as noone knows of Billas death. The ACP keeps the death of Billa as a secret even from his fellow officers, and tracks down a lookalike called Swami Ranga Prabhas, a petty thief based in Visakhapatnam. He asks Ranga to infiltrate Billas gang by pretending to be Billa. In return he will make sure that the children Ranga adopted, Lakshmi and Sreenu, get a proper education in Hyderabad.The ACP trains Ranga and sends him back to Billas gang as a person who has lost his memory. Slowly Ranga starts to learn about Billas gang and even speaks to Devil, Billas boss, on the phone. Ranga provides a pen drive with the secret information of the crime network to the ACP, but he is about to be killed by a woman named Maya Anushka Shetty because her brother Vikram Subbaraju as well as his fiancee Priya Hansika Motwani were killed by Billa. At this juncture, the ACP arrives and tells her that he is Ranga and not Billa. Since then, she begins to assist Ranga and the ACP in their mission and soon falls in love with Ranga. Later before a party, Ranga secretly provides information to the ACP about a meeting of Billas network and Lisa Namitha, Billas girlfriend, overhears his conversation. She challenges Ranga but in the fight, he accidentally kills her. A shootout occurs at the party and the ACP is secretly killed by Devil, leaving his gun behind. Ranga finds the ACPs body and the gun, but is taken into the custody of the police team, now headed by Interpol Officer Dharmendra. He argues during interrogation that he is Ranga and not Billa to Dharmendra. Ranga mentions a piece of evidence the pen drive which may prove his innocence but the pen drive is nowhere to be found. ........

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