Mrugaraju

Story:

Gunasekhar is the director of the 2001 Telugu-language action adventure movie Mrugaraju, which translates to “Lord of the Beasts.” Chiranjeevi plays the lead role, with Nagendra Babu, Sanghavi, and Simran providing supporting performances.

The soundtrack was composed by Mani Sharma. During the Sankranthi festival, the movie was released with Devi Putrudu and Narasimha Naidu. The Ghost and the Darkness, a 1996 American film, is said to have served as the inspiration for the main premise of the film. The movie was dubbed as Rakshak – The Protector in Hindi and Vettaikaran in Tamil.

Plot
A building effort to build a railway bridge is underway in a jungle. When the Maa Durga statue was discovered at the lower levels, it was stored away. Many employees said that this was wrong and that Maa Durga would punish them.

That evening, the head engineer is attacked by a lion. The laborers think that Durga Maa’s curse was to blame. Aishwarya is asked to embark on the bridge construction expedition by the railway department. The construction team is terrorized by the lion even when Aishwarya returns to work on the structure.

The task of hunting the lion is given to Adavipalli’s top hunter, Raju. The entire first half is devoted to Raju’s strategy of trapping and killing the lion at Appanna Dora’s expense. But after Raju kills its partner, the other lion in the bush gets furious with him. A local smuggler and a forest ranger are another source of difficulties for the bridge project. Raju dispatches these two thugs by halftime.

Aishwarya is later revealed to be Raju’s wife. In a flashback, Raju travels to the city to sell his wild herbs at a crafts fair. There, he meets Aishwarya, who was there with her fiancé Vicky to check out a fun stall. Vicky tells Aishwarya that she is not capable of shooting a balloon as she attempts to give it a go.

An spectator named Raju steps forward to offer her encouragement and shooting pointers. Subsequently, Aishwarya’s bullet finds its target. She asks Raju to attend her engagement celebration after being impressed by his assistance.

Vicky is flirting with another girl at the party when Raju notices it and tells him how important it is to be a good person. Observing the entire scenario from the back, Aishwarya concludes that Raju is a more devoted man than Vicky, who is flirty. She asks Raju for his hand in marriage. By causing misconceptions, Aishwarya’s father deftly drives a wedge between the couple.

Following this scene, Aishwarya receives a letter from the daycare center informing her that her daughter is upset about being without her. Following their miscommunication, Aishwarya becomes aware that she is expecting a child.

Her daughter was visiting her after a few days. Raju was ecstatic to learn that he had a daughter. Upon her arrival, Aishwarya forbade her from getting near her father. Aishwarya forbids Raju’s parents from touching her daughter, even though they were overjoyed to learn that their granddaughter had arrived.

Raju’s daughter is once more pursued by the man-eating lion that evening, but Raju’s parents are able to save their granddaughter. They tell their daughter-in-law about her dad’s betrayal of them for his reputation just before they pass away.

The workers all depart from their employment and head back to their homes in the morning. Later, when Raju’s daughter gets lost in the wilderness, the couple searches for her and eventually finds her standing in front of the lion that eats humans. Raju then kills the lion to save his daughter.