

His much-celebrated Jyothi didn't start by that time. Producer Suryanarayana said, "After a disastrous Prema Bandham, we planned Adavi Ramudu with Ramarao gaaru, and a two-films old Raghavendra Rao.

The grand success of Rajkumar's 1972 Kannada movie Gandhada Gudi made with a forest backdrop prompted NTR to work on a script and dialogues based on a forest backdrop. The story finally leads to the arrest of all criminals. The second half of the film reveals that Ramu is, in fact, a forest officer in a secret mission to investigate the case of forest affairs.

Dharma Raju takes the help of one Jaggu to send Ramu away from the forest. One tribal lady Chilakamma also loves Ramu as a brother. Padma who is the daughter of forest officer loves him. Ramu opposes and raises the villagers to fight against him. Dharma Raju and his son Nagaraju run a smuggling and illegal transport racket of forest produce.
