Dhruva is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language crime thriller[3] film directed by Surender Reddy and produced by Allu Aravind under his banner Geetha Arts. It features Ram Charan in the titular role, along with Arvind Swamy, Rakul Preet Singh, and Navdeep in important roles . It is a remake of Tamil film Thani Oruvan (2015).[4] The movie was released worldwide on 9 December 2016. In July 2017 a Hindi dubbed version was released, with Ajay Devgn given as the voice for Ram Charan, and Arbaaz Khan[5] given as the voice for Arvind Swamy.
A low-level party cadre Chengalrayudu (Posani Krishna Murali)
is tying a flag to a street-lamp post. Suddenly his pregnant wife goes
into labour, but he completely ignores it, as he is more dedicated to
his leader and party. At the same time, the party's deputy leader (Nassar)
visits the locality; as soon as he comes to know about this incident,
the leader lends his car and orders his driver to immediately take the
pregnant lady to the hospital; she delivers a baby boy named Venkanna
before they get to the hospital. At the age of fifteen, Venkanna secures
first rank in his 10th standard state exam and visits the party
deputy-leader, now the chairman of the party and a member of the ruling
coalition for his blessings with his father. While they are waiting in
the party office for the leader to come in, they witness a murder of a
rebel party candidate by their own revered leader due to caste-related
comments by the rebel on him. When the leader asks Chengalrayudu to take
the blame by saying that he killed the man due to rage about the
rebel's comments, Venkanna volunteers to take the blame and is willing
to go to jail, citing the leniency of juvenile laws in exchange for an
MLA seat for his father in the upcoming by-election. The deal is agreed
and carried out.
15 years later, Dhruva (Ram Charan) and his friends Gowtham (Navdeep), Ranveer (Randhir Gattla)
and others are a small group of trainee IPS officers who discreetly
assist the police, one activity being catching a gang which kidnapped
four girls. One day Dhruva receives a cryptic text message on his phone
from an anonymous number stating that he/she is aware of their discreet
activities. In the evening, they go out to meet that person who is
revealed to be Ishika (Rakul Preet Singh),
who loves Dhruva. Later that same night they happen to witness the
murder of a man who is a social activist with the pretense of snatch
theft.
Dhruva and his friends catch the gang and their leader (Shekar)
and hand them over to the police; however, four days later the leader of
the gang comes to the IPS headquarters with the home minister. This
political and organised crime comes as a shock to Dhruva and his
friends. Dhruva takes them to his house and shows his research on
connecting all small unrelated incidents into the global view of a
hidden network of politicians, industrialists and criminals who bend the
law for their own financial benefits. He singles out three prominent
business oligarchs, including pharmaceutical mogul Dheeraj Chandra (Sayaji Shinde), don Irfan Ali (Madhusudhan Rao)
and a minister. When Dhruva tries following Dheeraj Chandra, he
realises that all three of them work as a group and they all work for an
affluent scientist Siddharth Abhimanyu (Aravind Swamy).
After the completion of his training, Dhruva is awarded medals for
specializing in dealing with organized crime during training and also
for being the best probationer of the batch, and is posted as the ASP of
the Organized Crime Unit.
Dhruva discovers that Siddharth is Chengalrayudu's son Venkanna.
After his release from juvenile detention center, Venkanna had his name
changed and left India to complete his education abroad. After his
graduation he returned to India and is now a well established scientist.
Siddarth uses the medical field for the wrong reasons and his own
profit. Chengalrayudu is now the incumbent health and welfare minister
in the minority government headed by the party leader. At that time
Angelina, a Swiss pharmaceutical company owner and activist tries to
make generic medicines for life-threatening diseases available in India
at low cost affordable by poor people. Siddharth's assassin kills
Angelina before she can sign the agreement document with the government
and shoots Dhruva at the same time. While he is recovering from the
gunshot wound in the hospital with the help of Ishika and Gowtham, an
electronic bug (GPS + audio transmitter) is implanted during surgery.
Through the bug, Siddharth listens all of Dhruva's plans and
continuously monitors his whereabouts and whatever he talks via audio
transmission. Then comes evidence against Siddharth in the form of
Akshara (Abhinaya).
She was a scientist at Siddharth's research lab, where a seaweed that
can cure diabetes is found abundantly in the oceans. Siddharth tries to
sell the technology and rights to extract medicine from the seaweed to
multinational pharmaceutical companies but is opposed by Akshara. So
Siddharth arranges goons and the goons rape and kill her. But before
being killed, she records a video and stores it in an SD card so that
someone will find it. But before Dhruva can find the card, Siddharth
finds out and assigns Abbas to recover the card, but Dhruva tells
Gowtham to get the card. Gowtham goes to the house where the SD card is
at. He successfully gets the card after a fight with Abbas, but through
the bug Siddharth knows this and abducts Gowtham. Gowtham fights Abbas
and Siddharth but he gets drugged and before Dhruva can save him,
Siddharth and Abbas kill Gowtham.
Dhruva comes back to his special house
where he finds a pin has been changed in a picture which turns out to
be the picture of Naina Miss world of 2011 and a close aquintance of
Siddharth whose girlfriend Preethi was also part of that event. Dhruva
doubts whether Siddharth himself would have come to his house. Ishika
checks the finger prints on the pin keeping the gun case Dhruva received
from Siddharth in his posting ceremony and the finger prints match. A
flashback reveals that Siddharth killed Preethi's father so that she
doesn't participate in the competition and as she won't have a ticket to
go to her father's funeral he requests to take her in his chartered
flight and wins her over. Dhruva frantically searches for the bug which
he eventually finds out in a series of thrilling events.
Dhruva captures Abbas and records all the information from him. He
drugs Abbas and manipulates Siddharth into killing him. At the same
time, Siddharth's father reads the changed medical report, which
contains very good medical contracts for public welfare and multiple
accusations against the CM. When Siddharth learns about this, he ask
Chengalrayudu to pretend to have chest pains and move outside to
hospital. The ruling party forces Chengalrayudu either to resign within
24 hours or he will be dismissed. Dhruva appeals to the CM that he has
evidence and wants to arrest Siddharth, and he is granted permission to
do so. Hence Siddarth kills his father using his goons in an accident
and forces the CM to stop actions against him or he will lie that the CM
killed his father for personal vengeance.
But the next day at his
father's state funeral, Dhruva arrests him on the CM's orders.
When Siddharth is arrested, Dhruva tells him that the medicine was
patented in Akshara's name (despite Siddarth being the inventor) and
will be made as generic medicine instead of a patent-protected one. It
is also revealed that Chengalrayudu is alive, saved by Dhruva and the
public funeral held was for Gowtham. Dhruva makes a deal that he would
save Siddharth's life for information and evidence on all of his
criminal associates and activities and gives him a bulletproof vest to
fake his death during his transport to court. They also plan to take
down the set up planned by various VIPs to kill Siddharth when one of
them gets close to Siddharth. Dhruva takes him down and pushes Siddharth
back. To Dhruva's surprise, Siddharth does not wear the vest, and is
fatally shot by his girlfriend Preethi as an act of vengeance for
killing her father. Before dying, he tells Dhruva that he hid all the
evidence in an SD card in the bulletproof vest, adding that he had not
done it for the nation but because Dhruva had asked for it.
