Director: Meher Ramesh
Telugu star Chiranjeevi headlines Bhola Shankar, a 2023 action-crime film about a former gangster who now drives a taxi and gets pulled back into the underworld he thought he'd left behind.
What is Bhola Shankar about?
The taxi driver at the center of the story once ran with organized crime, and he's built a quiet new life since, raising an adopted sister and staying out of trouble. That changes when he helps the police break up a smuggling operation, an act that puts him squarely on a crime syndicate's radar and drags his past back into the present. What follows is a chase-and-confrontation story: the syndicate comes after him and everyone close to him, and he has to fall back on old instincts to protect his sister and settle the score, even as he tries to hold on to the ordinary life he built for himself.
Cast & crew
Chiranjeevi leads the film opposite Keerthy Suresh and Tamannaah Bhatia, with Sushanth, Murali Sharma, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, and Tulasi rounding out a cast that mixes family drama, comic relief, and the syndicate's menacing side.
Context & significance
Bhola Shankar is director Meher Ramesh's remake of the Tamil film Vedalam and arrived in 2023 as one of Chiranjeevi's headline vehicles for the year, leaning into the mass-hero formula the actor built his career on across four decades in Telugu cinema. At 158 minutes, it's a full-length actioner with musical interludes and family-drama detours built around the taxi driver's double life. The film's 3.3 rating on IMDb points to a divided reception, with the remake drawing comparisons to its Tamil source material.
Where & how to watch
Bhola Shankar is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice in how they watch the action unfold. Reading this page doesn't require an account; streaming the film does, through K-Time's Farsi-first platform built for Iranian audiences abroad.