Overview

Chengumani is commander-in-chief in the 18th-century Coorg region of present-day Karnataka. He becomes the king's commander-in-chief after saving his life, but his life gets complicated when he falls in love with Poovi and marries her in disguise. The movie was dubbed in Telugu as Prachanda Bheri. This was also Rajkumar's first cinemascope movie.

Genres

Cast

Dr. Rajkumar

Chengumani

Jaya Prada

Poovi

M. P. Shankar

Dodda Veerappa

T. N. Balakrishna

Uttanayaka

Vajramuni

Bhima, Uttanayaka's son

Thoogudeepa Srinivas

Nadathakka Subbaiah

Rajanand

Chikkavira Rajendra

Shakti Prasad

Mutthanna

Srinivasa Murthy

Kalaiah

Sampath

Somaiah, Thanga's Father

Prabhakar

Pemmaiah

Uma Shivakumar