Director: Koratala Siva
Coastal power struggles, a hidden protector, and a decades-spanning feud collide in Devara: Part 1, the 2024 Telugu action drama built around a role that lets N.T. Rama Rao Jr. dominate nearly every frame.
What is Devara Part 1 about?
Along a stretch of India's eastern shoreline, smuggling routes and old rivalries have shaped generations of families. When a fragile truce among coastal clans starts to crack, a mysterious enforcer steps out of the shadows to hold the line between order and open warfare. Director Koratala Siva stages the fallout as a slow-burn mystery: who is this man, why do the villagers both fear and trust him, and what does his silence protect? Saif Ali Khan plays the film's central antagonist with a controlled menace that keeps the power balance shifting scene to scene, while Janhvi Kapoor and Shruti Marathe anchor the domestic side of a story that spends as much time on loyalty within families as it does on confrontation between them. Prakash Raj and Srikanth round out a cast built for large-scale, operatic staging.
Cast & crew
N.T. Rama Rao Jr. carries the title role opposite Saif Ali Khan's antagonist, with Janhvi Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Srikanth, Kalaiyarasan and Shruti Marathe filling out a large ensemble spread across the coastal setting.
Context & significance
Devara: Part 1 arrived in 2024 as the opening chapter of a planned two-film saga, part of a wave of pan-Indian action epics that lean on folklore-inflected storytelling and coastal or rural settings rather than urban crime plots. The production leaned heavily on practical stunt work and large-scale set construction along real coastal locations, a choice that shows up in the film's sense of scale during its confrontation sequences.
Where & how to watch
Devara: Part 1 streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it's easy to follow the coastal power struggle in Farsi from the first scene. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without signing in. K-Time's interface is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora, so browsing, searching and switching audio tracks all stay in Persian.