Produced by Kranthi Kumar on his banner, Sri Kanthi Chitra, Rikshavodu is directed by Kodi RamaKrishna after Ammoru in 1996.Chiru played dual roles in this average flick, which was the last movie before a big break for 13 months.
Chiru is shown as a rikshavodu, living with his granny(manorama), having fun with neighbour(soundarya).One fine day his rikshaw was hit by a car, and trying to trace her licence number, chiru runs into Nagma, lonely daughter of a millionaire(paresh rawal).
Chiru Plans to kidnap her and teach her a lesson.After returning home Nagma decides to take revenge on chiru by marrying him and keeping him away from marital-life.
Paresh Rawal warns chiru and his granny, and at that time Manorama recognizes him and unfolds the flashback of chiru.Chiru, realizing that he’s the son of a legendary father, and his mother is in jail, charged of his father’s murder, sets off to meet her(Jayasudha).
Through his mother, he realizes how his father,Dharmaraju(Chiru), a noble yet daring man was trapped into a rape case and was sent to jail, and meanwhile his aunt was raped and killed in his absence.DharmaRaju returns from jail and on knowing this, sets off to kill the goons.He succeeds in killing the elder brother of Paresh Rawal, but Paresh escapes and kills Dharmaraju by trechery.Jayasudha will be trapped into this murder case and sent to jail.Now, Chiru is set to take revenge for all this, and how he kills Paresh and how Nagma realizes the truth forms the climax.
Koti’s music is pretty average, one song Roop Tera Mastana by Baba saigal catches up with the youth and masses.