
Thus, she was taken for the heroine role. Jayaprada was a new sensation in Telugu film industry and a budding artist at that time with her Sirisirimuvva being a super hit. Raghavendra Rao for his film Raja, was chosen for an important role. This prompted the team to suggest that Jandhyala should work on the script and dialogues based on a forest backdrop. At that time, Rajkumar's movie Gandhada Gudi, made with a forest backdrop, went on to be a super hit in Kannada. NTR had already given them dates in September 1976. When they were planning their next film, they approached Raghavendra Rao to work for them, whom they already knew as an assistant director as he just started taking up direction independently. (The film was released on the same day or NTR's Aaradhana.) but it was declared a flop as it could not sustain the craze. After that film, they made Prema Bandham (12 March 1976 – the same day as NTR's Aaradhana) with Sobhan Babu and Vanisree under the direction of K.

The film was one of the big hits in Sobhan Babu's career in which he played a dual role. Raghavendra Rao Raghavendra Rao was an assistant director for that film. Satya Chitra banner (of producers Nekkanti Veera Venkata Satyanarayana and Arumilli Suryanarayana) started their first film with Sobhan Babu's Tahsildar Gaari Ammaayi (12 November 1971), which was based on a serial by Kavilipati Vijayalakshmi in Andhra Prabha titled Vidhi Vinyaasaalu. I am really happy that I made such a film with my cousin Satyanarayana". The film was such a big success that people of that generation speak volumes of it and feel nostalgic even today, wherever I go. After completing the shooting, he just complemented us saying that shooting of this film shall remain as one of the best memories in his life. But Ramarao gaaru knew KRR well enough from the time Raghavendra Rao assisted 'pouraaNika brahma' Kamalakara Kameswara Rao in Pandava Vanavasamu and agreed readily to do the film. His much-celebrated Jyothi didn't start by that time. Producer Suryanarayana said, "After a disastrous Prema Bandham, we planned Adavi Ramudu with Ramarao gaaru, and a two-films old Raghavendra Rao.


The grand success of Rajkumar's 1972 Kannada movie Gandhada Gudi made with a forest backdrop prompted NTR to work on a script and dialogues based on a forest backdrop. The story finally leads to the arrest of all criminals. The second half of the film reveals that Ramu is, in fact, a forest officer in a secret mission to investigate the case of forest affairs. Dharma Raju takes the help of one Jaggu to send Ramu away from the forest. One tribal lady Chilakamma also loves Ramu as a brother. Padma who is the daughter of forest officer loves him. Ramu opposes and raises the villagers to fight against him. Dharma Raju and his son Nagaraju run a smuggling and illegal transport racket of forest produce.
