Aatmabalam (English: Power of Soul) is a 1985 Telugu thriller film directed by Tatineni Prasad and produced by J.M. Naidu and K. Muthayala Rao on Sri Valli Productions banner. The film stars Nandamuri Balakrishna, Bhanupriya in the lead roles and music was composed by Chakravarthy. The film is remake of Hindi Movie Karz (1980). The film recorded as flop at box office.
Synopsis
Vairi Vijaya Venkata Lakshmi Narayana Bhupathi, father of Anand Kumar Bhupathi (Sarath Babu) was a rich man in Ooty, whose property was unjustly usurped by Puligaolla Varhavataram (M. N. Nambiar) after his death. Anand wins a legal battle against Varhavataram. Thereafter Anand has fallen in love with Maya (Silk Smita), a gold-digger working covertly for Varhavataram. Here, Anand tells his mother Rani Vijaya Durga Devi (Anjali Devi) that he is going to get married & coming back to get her blessings along with Maya. On their way to Ooty, Maya throws Anand off the cliff near a small temple of Goddess Kali. Two decades later, Durga Prasad (Nandamuri Balakrishna) famous pop singer, an orphan raised by P. J. Naidu (Mikkilineni), is the re-incarnation of Anand's soul. He falls in love with a girl Vaishali (Bhanupriya) in first sight at a party.
Directed byVamsy ActorsKarthik, Bhanupriya, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Sarath Babu, 'Subhalekha' Sudhakar, Mallikarjuna Rao Rating76% The story of an Ornithologist and a Police investigator coming to a forest and trying to solve the mystery of a series of killings allegedly by a man-eating tiger but soon find out it is a serial killer and the identity is revealed in the end.
Vedam Venkata Ashok (Nandamuri Balakrishna) belongs to an orthodox traditional bramin works as a priest in a temple. Urmila (Bhanupriya) and Ashok are in love. But Urmila's father Shanmukha Sastry (Gollapudi Maruti Rao) has betrayed Ashok's father Vedam (J. V. Somayajulu) and is trying to adopt their whole property pushing them down to below poverty line. Adiseshayya (Narra Venkateswara Rao) and Shanmukha Sastry had planned together and have declared Ashok as a thief and had sent him to jail. After returning from jail, Ashok's father had restricted him to enter into the house. Ashok has now decided to go to any safe place and earn a lot of money due to which he can again be held up his family's pride. In this situation, he comes across Karim Saheeb (Satyanarayana) in Bombay and gets involved in illegal and corrupt activities in the city. By doing all this Ashok turns as Ashoka Chakravarthy and earns lots of money but will he be able to regain his parents confidence and their love, for whom he had jumped into such a trouble.
ActorsRaadhika Sarathkumar, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Sarath Babu, Kongara Jaggaiah, Silk Smitha Rating63% Vijay (Chiranjeevi) and Kishore (Sarath Babu) are childhood friends and both work in police department. They put a goon called Jackal behind bars and he vows revenge on them before going to jail. Kishore's sister (Raadhika) is in love with vijay. They get married and have a kid. Jackal escapes from jail and kills Kishore. Now its Vijay's turn to bring Jackal and his gang to justice and put an end to their atrocities.