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.
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Dr. Rajkumar as Chengumani
Jaya Prada as Poovi
M. P. Shankar as Dodda Veerappa
T. N. Balakrishna as Uttanayaka
Jayachitra as Thanga
Vajramuni as Bhima, Uttanayaka's son
Thoogudeepa Srinivas as Nadathakka Subbaiah
Rajanand as Chikkavira Rajendra
Shakti Prasad as Mutthanna
Srinivasa Murthy as Kalaiah
Sampath as Somaiah, Thanga's Father
Prabhakar as Pemmaiah
Uma Shivakumar as
Shani Mahadevappa as Biddaiah
Honnavalli Krishna as
Bhatti Mahadevappa as
M S Rajashekar as
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