Director: Anil Ravipudi
A man's life is reshaped by the child he agrees to raise in Bhagavanth Kesari, a 2023 Telugu action drama starring Nandamuri Balakrishna.
What is Bhagavanth Kesari about?
When Bhagavanth Kesari takes on guardianship of Vijaya Lakshmi, known as Vijji, the daughter of the man who once held him in jail, he doesn't do it out of obligation alone. He commits to raising her with a strict sense of right and wrong, pushing her toward her own goal of joining the Indian army even as his own past keeps circling back into their lives. Woven through that father-daughter arc is a separate thread involving Rahul Sanghvi, an ambitious and ruthless businessman whose ties to both Kesari and Vijji surface old secrets neither of them expected to face, forcing Kesari to choose between the quiet life he wants for Vijji and the fight that past connection demands.
Cast & crew
Nandamuri Balakrishna carries the lead role, with Sree Leela and Arjun Rampal in major supporting parts alongside Kajal Agarwal, P. Ravi Shankar, John Vijay, Muralidhar Goud, and Raghu Babu.
Context & significance
Directed by Anil Ravipudi, Bhagavanth Kesari premiered in 2023 as a mass-audience Telugu release built around Balakrishna's established action-hero persona, pairing large-scale set pieces with a more sentimental guardian-and-ward storyline than his typical output. Running 164 minutes, the film mixes courtroom-adjacent drama, military-academy ambition, and business-world intrigue into a single plot. It holds a 5.9 rating on IMDb, a middling score that tracks with a reception split between fans of Balakrishna's screen presence and viewers weighing the film against tighter genre entries from the same year.
Where & how to watch
Bhagavanth Kesari streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing, so Farsi-speaking audiences can watch it in their own language without relying on subtitles. This page can be read by anyone without an account; watching the film requires logging into K-Time, a platform built with a Farsi interface for Iranian viewers abroad.