Chhatrapati (film)

Chhatrapati is a 2005 Action drama Telugu film written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli. Prabhas plays the lead role and Shriya Saran, Bhanupriya, and Pradeep Rawat appear in other roles. The film released onSeptember 2005 and was dubbed into Malayalam and Hindi as Chhatrapati and Hukumat Ki Jung. It is loosely based on the Hollywood film Scarface. The film was remade in Kannada with the name Chhatrapati with Siddhanth and Priyadarshini in lead roles and in Bengali as Refugee.

Here, the port is dominated by Baji Rao Narendra Jha and some goons using refugee labor for their own gain. Shivaji is an aggressive guy, but is controlled by his well wishers. One day, he reacts aggressively in defence of himself and the other refugees. People start calling him Chhatrapati. Ras Bihari Pradeep Rawat comes down to Vizag in the hunt for Shivaji since he killed his brother Baji Rao. Ashok, too, lands in the same place. Realizing that Shivaji is his brother, he joins hands with the bad guys. The story is then of Chhatrapati who is searching for his mother and has a bunch of bad guys including his brother on his back while the entire port looks up to him. The plot is loosely based on Scarface.The film has seven songs composed by M. M. Keeravani. The track Gundusoodi has been reused from the song Kambangaadu from the 1992 Tamil movie Vaaname Ellai also composed by M. M. Keeravani. ........

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