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The film was produced by M.S.

Raju while music was composed by Mani Sharma and editing was by A.

Sreekar Prasad. The film follows journey of a Kabaddi player, Ajay who rescues Swapna from Obul Reddy, when the latter tries to forcefully marry her.

The film was later remade into Tamil as Ghilli, Kannada as Ajay, Bengali as Jor, Hindi as Tevar, Odia as Mate Aanidela Lakhe Phaguna and in Sinhala as Kabaddi.

There, he saves Swapna Reddy from Obul Reddy, a dangerous faction leader, who is in love with Swapna and wants to marry her against her wishes.

Ajay learns that Swapna is trying to leave to the United States for pursuing higher education after Obul killed her brothers.

When Ajay saves Swapna, he humiliates Obul by pushing him into a mudpond.

Obul refuses to cleanse the mud until Swapna is found and brought back.

Ajay helps Swapna escape and takes her to his house in an old city, hiding her in his room with the help of his sister, Asha.

Swapna and Ajay run away again and she falls in love with him.

The duo, along with Ajays friends, reach the airport to go to the United States.

They bring her parents to see her one last time before she leaves.

After Swapna is past airport security, Ajay realises he loves Swapna.

After Swapna taunts him by saying that Ajay will definitely come for her, Obul goes to the jail and asks Ajay to come with him.

Here, Vijay expresses that hes not worried about Ajay; rather, hes worried for Obul.

Obul and his henchmen are kidnapped by Ajay, who, along with his friends, attend the finals of national level tournament.

After coming to know about his whereabouts, Siva reaches the stadium along with Swapna and his mother where Ajay and Obul are fighting with each other.

Siva decides not to react as it would harm his position as a minister and Ajay, whose team won the match, celebrates the victory with Swapna and his family.

Years later, Ashwini Dutt met Gunasekhar during the re-recording sessions of Choodalani Vundi (1998) where the latter saw the portfolio images of Mahesh Babu whose debut film Rajakumarudu was officially launched that day.

Finding Babu apt for the protagonist he envisioned, Gunasekhar narrated the script to him and gained his consent.

After reading an interview of Pullela Gopichand who pursued a career in badminton against his fathers wishes and faced many hardships, Gunasekhar made the protagonist a person who aspires to be a kabaddi player against his fathers wishes.

He met Ramoji Rao who expressed his wish to produce the film and permitted Gunasekhar to erect a Charminar set at Ramoji Film City.

Babu asked Raju to permit them to erect a Charminar set as they cannot avail police permission to shoot at the original after a person committed suicide by jumping from the top.

Raju agreed to do so after listening to the script narration and the project was subsequently announced.

The former called it a character close to his heart, calling it is a soft role after a string of ferocious roles that I have played.

Prakash Raj was signed as the antagonist and was seen as a politician who falls for Bhumikas character in the film.

Telangana Shakuntala played the role of Prakash Rajs mother in the film for which she had to smoke cigar.

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