Chhatrapati

<p>Parvati lives on the coast of and adopts Sivaji as her son. Parvati shows equal affection to her biological son Ashok, but Ashok becomes jealous of Sivaji. One day, the villagers are forced to evacuate the coast and a fire accident occurs. Ashok separates Sivaji from his family by lying to Parvati that Sivaji died in the fire accident. Sivaji ends up in a different boat and lands in , which is dominated by Baji Rao, who uses refugee labor for his gain. Years later, Sivaji grows up to be an aggressive guy and still searches for his mother. One day, Sivaji reacts violently in defense of the other refugees and kills Baji Rao’s right-hand man Katraju after he killed a child named Suri. Enraged, Baji Rao attacks the slum and kills Sivaji’s friend when he tried to save other children in the port. Sivaji revolts against Baji Rao and hacks him to death, thus leading the people to refer him as . Baji Rao’s brother Ras Bihari arrives in Vizag and learns about his brother’s death and begins to hunt Sivaji. Ashok also lands in the same place, where he realizes that Sivaji is his brother and joins hands with Ras Bihari. Despite this, Sivaji manages to reunite with Parvati and also kills Ras Bihari, thus saving the port from any danger. Ashok also realize his mistake and apologize to Sivaji and Parvati, where they reunite and live happily. In an interview with , Rajamouli described as a “mother sentiment film”, which also deals with the exploitation of immigrants who come to India from the places and live without any official identity. When questioned about similarities to the American film (1983), he said that his father , who wrote , watched and got inspired by the point of immigrants’ problems, but there were no scenic resemblances between the two films. The film has seven songs composed by . The track has been reused from the song from the movie (1992) also composed by M. M. Keeravani. The song was plagiarized from the of the video game (2004) composed by . wrote “The film has all the masala ingredients for the present day young generation. Though the storyline is routine, it is the directorial treatment and good screenplay that do the trick for the film.” rated the film 2/5 and wrote, “a swell cast with a young action hero and add a dash of digital wizardry to the stunts and cook up an unimaginative script as an aftermath and serve it piping hot! works to a certain extent thanks to the tall handsome hunk Prabhas.” Jeevi of gave 3.5/5 stars and observed that the film’s similarities with and , but opined that it stands on its own owing to Rajamouli’s direction and Prabhas’ performance. The film had a 100-day run in 54 venues. The film was remade in as (2006), in as (2007), and in with in 2013, with Siddhanth and Priyadarshini. It was remade in with starring making his debut in Hindi cinema.</p>