Neti Siddhartha

{{Infobox film

| name = Neti Siddhartha

| image = Neti_Siddhartha.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Kranthi Kumar

| producer = Kranthi Kumar

| writer = Satyanand {{small|(dialogues)}}

| starring = Nagarjuna
Krishnam Raju
Shobana
Ayesha Jhulka

| music = Laxmikant–Pyarelal

| studio = Kranthi Chitra

| cinematography = P. S. Prakash

| editing = A. Sreekar Prasad

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1990|6|15}}

| runtime = 142 minutes

| country = India

| language = Telugu

| budget =

| gross =

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Neti Siddhartha, also known by its alternative title Siddhartha, is a 1990 Telugu-language action film produced and directed by Kranthi Kumar under the Kranthi Chitra banner. It stars Nagarjuna, Krishnam Raju, Shobana and Ayesha Jhulka (in her acting debut), with music composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. It is a remake of the Hindi film Dharmatma (1975), itself based on The Godfather. It did moderately well at the box office.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvcrunch.net/movies/view/id/25855/imdb_neti_siddhartha |accessdate=25 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101027/http://www.tvcrunch.net/movies/view/id/25855/imdb_neti_siddhartha |archivedate=6 October 2014 |title=www.tvcrunch.net }}[http://chithr.com/movie/cast/1067/neti-siddhartha-cast.html Neti Siddhartha ( 1990 )] at chitr.com {{reliable source|date=February 2014}}

Plot

Siddhartha (Nagarjuna) is the son of K.P. (Krishnam Raju), a business magnate. Siddhartha comes back from the states after so many years. Jyothi (Shobana), his childhood friend, has an unrequited love for him. One day, he is told K.P. rules an underworld mafia syndicate by his friend David (Sarath Babu), whom K.P. then kills. Siddhartha leaves home and reaches a forest where he falls in love with a tribal girl, Basanti (Ayesha Jhulka). Meanwhile, syndicate members Jogendra (Tiger Prabhakar) and Shetty (Pradeep Shakthi) plan to kill K.P. and Siddhartha with the help of his son-in-law Chakravarthy (J. D. Chakravarthy), leading to K.P. and Basanti's deaths. Siddhartha returns to rule the syndicate, and takes revenge on his remaining enemies.