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When a devout zamindar and his wife are robbed and murdered by three criminals during a Hanuman festival, their young son Raja is left alone with his grief. His desperate devotion moves Hanuman himself, who grants the boy extraordinary powers. As an adult, Raja keeps those powers hidden, quietly helping people while running a mining business with his friend Bangarayya and falling for Bangarayya's daughter, Jaya. When the three killers resurface with new criminal schemes, Raja sets out to unmask them one by one, a hunt that eventually takes him all the way to Hong Kong. N. T. Rama Rao plays Raja in a red-and-blue costume, opposite Jaya Prada, with Kaikala Satyanarayana, Allu Ramalingaiah, Kanta Rao and Jayamalini in the cast. V. Madhusudhana Rao directed, and K. Chakravarthy composed the songs, sung by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and P. Susheela. Described as an unofficial Indian answer to the 1978 Hollywood Superman, it swaps the alien origin story for a Hindu devotional one and mixes revenge drama, romance, kung-fu style action and low-budget effects into a very Telugu superhero entertainer.