Bhalevadivi Basu

Bhalevadivi Basu is a 2001 Tollywood comedy film directed by P.A. Arun Prasad, released on 15 June 2001. The movie stars Nandamuri Balakrishna, Shilpa Shetty, Anjala Zhaveri. The movie has created a lot of hype as it was released after the stupendous hit of Narasimha Naidu. The movie was tend to be a image make over for Nandamuri Balakrishna from Action Hero to Family Hero. But the movie was not well received making it a disaster at the boxoffice.

Synopsis

Sagar (Bala Krishna) is a forest ranger. Shilpa (Shilpa Shetty) is the boss of Sagar. Nemali (Anjala Zhaveri) is a tribal woman. The entire first half of the film revolves around how Nemali and Shilpa try to impress upon Sagar. In the interval, a mysterious woman reveals that the forest ranger's name is not Sagar and he is an imposter.

The second half of the film starts with the imposter telling about his flash back. His name is Prabhu and he is a petty thief. He gets to know a person called Sagar, who is an intelligent unemployed graduate. Sagar is having a mother and sister, who sacrificed their comforts to make Sagar become a graduate. He gets selected as a forest ranger. Prabhu and Sagar become very close. Sagar's mother falls ill and she needs one lakh as medical fee. Prabhu arranges the money. He manages that money by giving a false testimony in court. Thereby he gets fixed in the case and gets a life imprisonment. He escapes from the police and enters the forest where he sees Sagar brutally injured in a car accident. Sagar asks Prabhu to take care of his mother and sister.

Since nobody knows the identity of Sagar, Prabhu joins the job as forest ranger and tries to improve the life of tribal and makes sure that the poachers and animal killers are kept at bay. At the same time, he keeps in touch with the family of Sagar by pretending as Sagar.

The rest of the story revolves around how he arranges the marriage of the sister before fighting in a routine climax.

Cast

• Nandamuri Balakrishna ...... Sagar/Prabhu
• Shilpa Shetty ......Shilpa
• Anjala Zaveri ...... Nemali
• Venkat ...... Sagar
• Prakash Raj ......
• Bhupinder Singh ......
• Brahmanandam ......
• Balaiha ......

Soundtrack

The soundtrack and background score for the movie are composed by Mani Sarma. The audio rights of the soundtrack were purchased by Aditya Music.

All music composed by Mani Sarma.