Hitler (stylized in the film as Chiranjeevi Hitler) is a 1997 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Muthyala Subbaiah. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Rajendra Prasad, and Rambha with music composed by Koti. It is a remake of the 1996 Malayalam film of the same name, and tells the story of an overprotective brother who guards his five sisters from the outside world.^[1] Released on 4 January 1997, the film was successful at the box office, ending Chiranjeevi’s series of box office flops.^[2][3]

The film begins in a town where a self-made, angry young man, Madhava Rao / Madhava, resides with his five sisters, Sarada, Annapurna / Ammu, Lakshmi, Gayatri & Saraswati respectively. He dotes on them under a shower of affection and batters everyone who rags them. Thus, the area youth titles him as Hitler for his hot temper. Besides, Aadi Seshu Madhava’s maternal uncle’s progeny are Balachandra / Balu & Bujji. The weddings of Balu & second Ammu, who endear each other, & Bujji & Madhava set, and they are just waiting for elder Sarada’s espousal.

Meanwhile, Madhava moves to fix an alliance, Sarada, when naughty Bujji plans a picnic. Balu & Ammu have a blissful time and reach home earlier when the remaining also come back and startle to view Madhava arriving before expected. Hence, a muddle arises, and Balu hides in a room. Madhava Rao delightfully gifts new wear to his sisters by confirming the collector’s match. They all go to trial, unaware of Balu’s presence inside. Spotting it, Madhava enrages & assaults Balu with misconstrue. Aadi Seshu interrupts & cheaply talks about his sisters, and Madhava slaps him, too, by annulling marriages & relations. However, Balu challenges Madhava to spouse Ammu & mingle him with Bujji. Parallelly, the town youth strike against Madhava’s dictatorship, led by Balu. He vanishes behind Madhava’s presence when Madhava’s father scatters the mob. Though the father is so affectionate towards his son, who detests him because Madhava thinks the father is his mother’s homicide by re-marrying, which is Aadi Seshu’s ruse. He currently stays with his two other daughters’ second wife’s children, and she, too, expired.

Consequently, Aadi Seshu, frightened by rivalry with father & son, advances to aid his three former ferocious foes, the Rudraraju brothers. Since the trio is waiting for a shot to pay back Madhava & Aadi Seshu, they pretend to cut a deal—additionally intrigue to ruin Sarada and attacks when she reaches her Professor, Mohana Rao’s house, who molests her in an alcoholic state. Madhava becomes bewildered, learning it, when Sarada submits to knit her with the Professor, which he does by concealing the actuality—furious Ammu gets out and nuptial Balu, which crashes Madhava. Aadi Seshu hinders Balu & Ammu’s access, so they shift to Madhava’s neighbors. Madhava’s father, conscious of the whole thing, abducts Bujji to conjoin with his son, but he kicks her, which ends hilariously.

Whereat, Rudraraju brothers guile to fuse Bujji with the younger Chinna, but she skips it by forging herself pregnant when the heels hike Aadi Seshu’s savagery. They plot to accuse the Lakshmi, Gayatri & Saraswati of prostitution. Madhava’s father gazes & secures them, but unfortunately, he becomes impeached when Madhava’s hostility still arises. So, he flares up on Aadi Seshu when Balu frays with him. The Rudraraju brothers blow it up by slaying Madhav’s father when the father & son unite before leaving his breath. Yet, he quiets about his hitmen to avoid Madhava turning into a criminal, slaughtering them. Madhava kindly nears his half-sisters, but the remaining ones reject when he rebukes them, and they reach Ammu. Madhava gets to retrieve them, but Balu bars him, and a cold war erupts. Later, Balu retakes them, announcing Madhava’s eminence, and he walks on his quest.

Exploiting it, the Rudraraju brothers, in Madhava’s guise, foxily make a murder attempt on Balu. Madhava rushes to the hospital, where he is completely devastated, receiving loath & guilt from his sisters, including Bujji. Madhava blends the events and detects the actual miscreants are Rudraraju brothers and sets foot to smash them. Now, the blackguards backstab Aadi Seshu, whom Madhava secures. Gravely injured, Aadi Seshu states that Madhava is nonguilty to family members at the hospital. Till then, Madhava ceases baddies, and his sisters’ front seeks apology, but he cuts the cords being doleful. At last, Madhava is about to quit handing over his liabilities to Balu but returns, staring at a guy teasing his sisters. Finally, the movie ends happily with the proclamation: Hitler never absconded from these knotty relations.

Editor Mohan who brought the remake rights of the Malayalam film Hitler (1996) sought to remake the film in Telugu with Mohan Babu as the lead. He approached director E. V. V. Satyanarayana to helm the remake but Satyanarayana politely rejected the offer as he was already teaming up with Mohan Babu for Veedevadandi Babu and Adirindi Alludu. Later, Chiranjeevi, who liked the script, came on board.^[3]

Music was composed by Koti. Music released by Lahari Music Company.

The film was a box office success, having a theatrical run of over 100 days in many centres.^[4][5][6]

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