Rusthum

A stranger named Hari walks into a village where the powerful have long had their way. Ganga Rayudu, the village head, protects a local strongman who has seized the house and fields of a man named Musalayya, and justice at the panchayat goes to whoever Rayudu favours. Hari takes on the bully, wins the property back and earns the villagers' admiration along with a new name, Rustum. Rayudu responds by making him village headman, a post meant as a trap, and when a young woman's death is pinned on Hari, even Padma, the headman's daughter who has fallen for him, begins to doubt him. Behind the newcomer lies a link to a crime the village has never seen solved. A. Kodandarami Reddy directs this 1984 action drama, with Chiranjeevi as Hari and Urvashi as Padma, alongside Rao Gopal Rao, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Gummadi, Nutan Prasad, Rajendra Prasad and Allu Ramalingaiah. Chakravarthy composed the music, and the village-justice story gives Chiranjeevi plenty of room for both action and romance.