Chengumani is commander-in-chief in the 18th-century Coorg region of present-day Karnataka. He becomes the king's commander-in-chief after saving his life, but his life gets complicated when he falls in love with Poovi and marries her in disguise. The movie was dubbed in Telugu as Prachanda Bheri. This was also Rajkumar's first cinemascope movie.
Dr. Rajkumar
as Chengumani
Jaya Prada
as Poovi
M. P. Shankar
as Dodda Veerappa
T. N. Balakrishna
as Uttanayaka
Jayachitra
as Thanga
Vajramuni
as Bhima, Uttanayaka's son
Thoogudeepa Srinivas
as Nadathakka Subbaiah
Rajanand
as Chikkavira Rajendra
Shakti Prasad
as Mutthanna
Srinivasa Murthy
as Kalaiah
Sampath
as Somaiah, Thanga's Father
Prabhakar
as Pemmaiah
