Maharshi (film)

Maharshi is a 1988 Telugu drama film written and directed by Vamsy. The film stars Maharshi Raghava, Nishanti Shanti Priya, and Krishna Bhagavan, with Ilaiyaraja composing music and S.P.Balasubrahmanyam as the playback singer.

Suchitra meets her childhood friend Tilak Krishna Bhagavan who is working as a police subinspector in the same town. Soon after she expresses her wish to marry him, more with the objective of getting rid of Maharshi. When Maharshi comes to know of this, he tries to stop the wedding but is locked up in a police station at the insistence of his own father. However, he assumes that Tilak has used his power as subinspector and locked him up. He tries to attack Tilak at their own home but stops when he sees Suchitra open the door. Gradually Maharshi slips into depression and is hospitalized.Maharshis pure love for Suchitra is shown when his friend Ramana CVL Narasimha Rao drugs Suchitra and brings them to Maharshis home, assuming that Maharshi wants a physical union with her. Maharshi slaps his friend and explains that he wants her affection and love and not her body they carefully take her back. ........

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