Gang Leader (1991)

Raghupati (Mohan), Raghava (Kumar) and Rajaram (Chiranjeevi) are brothers in a lowermiddle class family. Only the eldest, Raghupati, is employed. Rajaram earns some money to pay for Raghava’s studies by agreeing to go to prison for a road accident caused by the daughter of a jailor (Satyanarayana). While he is in jail, Raghupati is killed by the villain Ekambaram (Rao), a crime for which photographic evidence is available but withheld from Rajaram. Further problems are caused when Raghava’s new wife (Sumalatha) and her corrupt father, a police officer, force a split between the brothers. Rajaram is arrested once again, this time for murder, but eventually, with the help of Ekambaram’s illegitimate daughter Kanyakumari (Vijayashanti), he rescues and reunites his entire family and kills the villain’s brother (Saxena) while Kanyakumari kills the villain. The film was remade as Aaj Ka Goonda Raj (1991) and includes all the standard narrative conventions of a Chiranjeevi film, such as a ‘solo’ song number and an elaborately choreographed fight sequence early in the story.