Mafia leader Sobhanadri (Raja Murad) picks up the orphan Sivaji (Mohan Babu) on the streets and takes him as godson. Hemadri (Riaz Khan) is the son of Sobhanadri and he is often jealous of the love showered on Sivaji by his father. Hemadri kills a judge in a fit of rage and Sobhanadri reprimands him and gives the power of attorney for his assets and operations to Sivaji.An enraged Hemadri plans to assassinate the entire family of Sivaji and he succeeds only in killing wife of Sivaji (Soundarya) and one son. Sivaji takes his other son and migrates from Vizag to Bailukuppe monastery (near Mysore) to become a monk. He changes his name to Shiv Shankar and donates all the money he inherited from his godfather to the monastery. Meanwhile, Sobhanadri and Hemadri are in frantic search to find out Sivaji and retrieve all their money. The rest of the story is all about what prompted Shiv Shankar to travel back to Vizag and how all ends well.

Analysis :

Mohan Babu is at his best. There are his trademark dialogues in this film that got response from the frontbenchers. Soundarya is good as usual and unfortunately this film is her last film. Natanya Singh is OK in her glamorous role. Though good in histrionics, Raja Murad could not live up to the caliber of the godfather role mainly because he could not get his histrionics in a right way that Telugu audience could appreciate. Riaz Khan is fair as the hot-blooded bad guy. Separate comedy track involving Venu Madhav, AVS and a girl is bit vulgar. Ahuti Prasad did an important role of Muslim car driver.

TeluguOne Perspective :

First half of the film is average. Second half is a let down. The plus points of the film are performance of Mohan Babu and music by Ilayaraja. The main drawback of the film is old-fashioned narration and taking. This film is the last film of Soundarya, thus derives bit of sympathy factor. We have to wait and see how box office responds to Mohan Babu's film that is released after a gap of two years.