Idiot (film)

Idiot
Directed by Puri Jagannadh
Produced by Puri Jagannadh
Written by Puri Jagannadh
Starring Ravi Teja,
Rakshita,
Prakash Raj
Ali
Music by Chakri
Cinematography Shyam K. Naidu
Distributed by Vaishno Academy
Release date(s) 22 August 2002
Language Telugu

Idiot (Telugu: ఇడియెట్) is a Telugu film which released on 22 August 2002 and was directed by Puri Jagannadh. This film stars Ravi Teja and Rakshita. This film was a big hit in 2002 and was a remake of the superhit Kannada movie Appu starring Puneet Rajkumar and Rakshita.

Plot

Chanti (Ravi Teja) is the son of a head constable (Kota Srinivasa Rao). Chanti is a guy with carefree attitude. He is beaten by a rival gang at night and was rescued by a beautiful girl Suchitra or Suchi(Rakshitha). She pays his hospital bills and donates her blood. She is gone from the hospital by the time Chanti became conscious. When Chanti's friends tell him who recued him, he starts loving her immedietley for her good-heartedness though he did not see her. Suchitra later turns out to be the daughter of the city police commissioner Vipra Narayana (Prakash Raj).

Originally a Kannada film named Appu, it was later remade in Tamil as Dum in 2003, starring Silambarasan, with Rakshitha reprising her role in all 3 movies.