Baala Bandhana is a 1971 Indian Kannada language romantic drama film directed by Peketi Sivaram. It stars Rajkumar and Jayanthi in the lead roles. The film was a remake of A. Bhimsingh's Tamil film Padikkadha Medhai (1960) and was produced under ALS Productions. It had a very successful soundtrack composed by G. K. Venkatesh.
, 2h21 GenresDrame ActeursRajkumar, T. N. Balakrishna, Jayanthi, Aarathi, Dwarakish, Vajramuni Note12% Rajkumar plays an upright Panju, who stays in Bankapura with his mother. Due to evil policies of crown prince Vajramuni and princess Jayanti, Panju and villagers are at the risk of losing their lands. When much pleading does not work, Panju leads farmers agitation to the palace, where he is captured, put to jail and tortured. Panju escapes from the prison, kidnaps Jayanti to his village to teach her civic norms and show her the harsh realities normal people face each day. He gets the entire village relocated across adjoining river, so that royal soldiers cannot trace them. He is able to turn the princess to appreciate the normal way-of-life, but faces the wrath of Palace and administration. Can he turn the tides and win his biggest battle? The film also stars Arathi as a village girl who is in love with Panju, but before anything could occur she is killed by Vajramuni as she opposed his advances.
, 2h58 GenresDrame, Action, Historique ActeursRajkumar, Manjula, K. S. Ashwath, Vajramuni, T. N. Balakrishna, Manjula Vijayakumar Note87% The film opens in Kanchi with Mayura, a Brahmin youth challenging an arrogant wrestler and defeating him. Mayura had never been formally trained and had only learned techniques of wrestling by observing other wrestlers. As a Brahmin, he was required to study Vedas, yet he was deeply interested in martial arts and after this wrestling encounter, Ranga Jetti (M. P. Shankar), the premier wrestler in Kanchi, takes him under his wing and trains him. After becoming proficient in all the martial arts, one day, while observing the training of Pallava princes, Mayura accidentally gets into a fight with and gives a thrashing to Vishnugopa (Vajramuni), the Pallava prince, thereby earning his enmity.