A thrilling Revenge drama made during early 80s, Chattaniki kallu levu deals with the story of siblings Vijay (Chiranjeevi) and Durga (Lakshmi) pursuing their sister’s and father’s murderers.
Their father and sister are killed by 3 men, John (Hema Sundar), Javed (Kannada Prabhakar) and Janardan (Ceylon Manohar).
Durga, now a police officer, wants the murderers to be punished legally.
But, Vijay thinks that law and its loopholes can never track down those 3 murderers.
So, he decides to track them down by himself and succeeds in killing two of them, John and Janardhan on each occasion.
This frustrates his sister and interrupts her investigations. She has a doubt on vijay, but due to lack of evidence remains helpless.
In the end, Durga, tring to nab Javed, is kidnapped by him, but Vijay saves her and kills Javed.
This very popular film belongs to the Chiranjeevi genre of vigilante revenge dramas deployed as critiques of a corrupted legal system.
This is the only movie, for which music director Chakravarti’s assistants Krishna – Chakra worked for a Chiranjeevi movie.