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. PlotÄharma Raju and his son Nagaraju run a smuggling and illegal transport racket of forest produce. It was recorded as the highest grossing Telugu film of the 1970s until its record was broken by the 1981 film Premabhisekham. This film won the Filmfare Best Film Award (Telugu). The grand success of the 1973 Kannada film Gandhada Gudi prompted NTR to work on a script based on forest backdrop which resulted in this movie. Rama Rao, Jaya Prada and Jayasudha, with musical score by K. Forest Ramu) is a 1977 Indian Telugu-language action film produced by Satyanarayana and Suryanarayana and directed by K.