Chinnodu

Chinna (Sumanth) is born inside a prison, and his mother dies giving birth to him. Pashupati (Chandra Mohan), the jailer, cannot bring himself to abandon the baby and raises him alongside his own children, though Pashupati's father refuses to accept a boy born behind bars. Years later Chinna is convicted of killing Pashupati's brother, and when he walks out of jail the family he grew up in wants nothing more to do with him. Only his foster mother Janaki (Vinaya Prasad) still treats him with kindness. Settling in a rough neighbourhood under the thumb of a local gang, Chinna takes on the goons and becomes the residents' protector, while still hoping to win back his family. Then Anjali (Charmy Kaur), a clerk in the police commissioner's office, moves in as a co-tenant and falls for the gentle man she sees, unaware of his past. Written and directed by Kanmani, with music by Ramana Gogula and Rahul Dev as the villain Srisailam, the film mixes action, family sentiment and romance, and reviewers singled out Sumanth's performance. It was later remade in Kannada as Hara.