Justice Chowdary

Justice Chowdary is a 1982 Telugu, Action drama film, produced by T. Trivikrama Rao^[2] on Vijayalakshmi Art Pictures banner^[3] and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao.^[4] Starring N. T. Rama Rao, Sridevi, Sharada, Jayanthi in the lead roles and music composed by Chakravarthy.^[5] The film was remade in Hindi under same name and in Tamil as Neethibathi in 1983. The film recorded as Super Hit at the box office.^[6]

Plot

Advocate RK Chowdary, (N.T.Rama Rao) is an honest person who dedicated his life to justice. He was once the prosecutor for a murder case which was defended by advocate Kailasam (Rao Gopal Rao). Kailasam is also a business partner & chief advisor to Papa Rao (Satyanarayana) who is a smuggler and a gangster. Chowdary won the case and Ranga Rao (again Satyanarayana), Papa Rao's twin brother, was sentenced to death. There onward Papa Rao swore revenge on Chowdary.

Chowdary has a happy family — his wife Janaki, (Jayanthi) son Raja (Sridhar) who is a Police officer, daughter-in-law Lata (Rajyalakshmi), and daughter Lakshmi (Mucharlla Aruna). The only thing that worries Chowdary is that his daughter is mute and can't get a good match. After sometime RK Chowdary becomes Chief Justice to the High Court. This hurt Kailasam a lot because he can’t become a Judge and he also develops enmity against Chowdary. A young & smart looking guy Ramu (again N. T. Rama Rao) who looks alike Chowdary is a motor mechanic & a race car driver. Ramu loves Rekha (Sridevi) daughter of Kailasam. Ramu enters into the life of crime and works for Papa Rao because Ramu has a life ambition that he wants to construct a house for her mother Radha (Sharada) who is in prison from past 14 years for the crime which he had done.

Papa Rao & Kailasam makes a plan to revenge against Chowdary they arrange a guy Gopal (Raja) who is in their trap to marry Chowdary’s daughter Lakshmi to keep Chowdary in their grip, but Chowdary doesn’t surrender to them even Gopal leaves Lakshmi. One day when Kailasam comes to known that Justice Chowdary is Ramu’s father, he & Papa Rao makes an another plan and they tell Ramu against Chowdary that he had cheated his mother, then Ramu decides to take revenge against Chowdary so he changes get-up like Chowdary and traps Chowdary’s son Raja into a murder case which has presented in Chowdary’s court and he gives judgment as life imprisonment. When Chowdary starts enquiring actually what has happened and comes to know that Ramu is his own son. Meanwhile, Radha realizes from prison and she comes to know what has happened through Chowdary and tells the truth to Ramu that she herself went away from Chowdary’s life to make his marriage with Janaki then Ramu realizes his mistake. Meanwhile, Kailasam is double-crossed by Papa Rao and puts him in his custody. Chowdary breaks out all the tactics of Papa Rao protect everyone including Kailasam, but Radha sacrifices her life to project Chowdary in the climax.

Cast

Crew

• Art: Bhaskara Raju
• Fights: Raju, Babu
• Choreography: Saleem
• Lyrics: Veturi Sundararama Murthy
• Playback: S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, P. Susheela, S. P. Sailaja
• Music: Chakravarthy
• Story-Dialogues: Satyanand
• Cinematography: K. S. Prakash
• Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
• Co-producer: T. Pradyumna Rao
• Producer: T. Trivikrama Rao
• Screenplay — Director: K. Raghavendra Rao
• Banner: Vijayalakshmi Art Pictures
• Release Date: 28 May 1982

Soundtrack

Music composed by Chakravarthy. Lyrics were written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy. All songs are hit tracks. Music released on AVM Audio Company.^[7]

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