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Abhilasha
1983 145’ col Telugu d/co-sc A. Kodandarami Reddy pc Creative Commercials p K.S. Rama Rao st/co-dial Yandamuri Veerendranath co-sc G. Satyamurthy co-dial Satyanand lyr Acharya Athreya, Veturi Sundara Ramamurthy c H. Loksingh m Ilaiyaraja lp Chiranjeevi, Radhika, Ravu Gopala Rao, Rallapalli, Gollapudi Maruti Rao, Rajyalakshmi
One of a series of Chiranjeevi films based on the novels of popular Telugu writer Veerendranath. The suspense drama tells of a complicated plot initiated by a young lawyer, Chiranjeevi (Chiranjeevi). His innocent father had been hanged and his sole ambition is to have capital punishment abolished in India. He teams up with the rich lawyer Sarvottama Rao (Rao) and also falls for Rao’s niece Archana (Radhika). Rao has his illegitimate daughter Susheela (Rajalakshmi) murdered, and the plan is to let Chiranjeevi be accused of the killing and sentenced to death, so that in vindicating himself at the end of a sensational case, the duo would illustrate the evils of capital punishment. However Rao decides to let Chiranjeevi be hanged. He is eventually saved by Archana, who also helps him to solve the case so that the much-rehearsed plea for the abolition of the death sentence may be delivered in court.