A legendary combination for the fourth time after Annamayya, Sri Ramadasu and Shirdi Sai K. Raghavendra Rao now again teamed up with Nagarjuna for another devotional film.
While Annamayya’s story was based on Annamacharya, a musician who composed songs in praise of god Venkateswara in 15th century. Now K. Raghavendra Rao comes up with the story of north Indian saint Hathiram Bhavaji who visited Tirumala, the abode of Balaji, in 1500s.
This film stares Nagarjuna as Hathiram Bhavaji along with Anushka Shetty, Pragya Jaiswal, Jagapathi Babu and Vimala Raman and the telugu debue for Saurabh Raaj Jain who played Lord Krishna / Lord Vishnu's role in serial Mahabharat now as Lord Venkateswara.
The film likely seems to be sequel to blockbuster hit Annamayya in which Nagarjuna as the ardent follower of Lord Venkatesha.
Om Namo Venkatesaya Movie Trailer
Om Namo Venkatesaya Movie Trailer
Hathiram Bhavaji story From Wikipedia
It is believed that Lord Balaji was pleased with his devotion and used to come to his place to play a game of dice. One day, the game was prolonged for too long and the Lord suddenly remembered that he was getting late for the daily worship. In a hurry, he left one of his ornaments, a necklace in his ashram. The priests opened the temple found that an ornament was missing instituted a search for it. Hathiram also realized what happened, and wanted to return the ornament to the temple.
He was caught and house arrested by the temple guards thinking him to be a thief. This matter reached the king, and he asked Hathiram why he had stolen it. He narrated the incident which happened the previous night. The king did not believe his story and ordered his servants to fill his room with sugar cane, and asked them to safe guard it. Then the king asked Hathiram to eat every bit the sugar cane before dawn. Since it is practically impossible to eat such a large amount of sugar cane for any human in one night.
Hathiram simply spent the whole night chanting the name of the lord. Suddenly there appeared a huge white elephant inside his room, finished the sugar cane within moments, and disappeared.
Later in the morning, the king was surprised to see all the sugar cane was finished. He verified with his guards that no elephant was seen last night outside the locked room. Then he realized that Lord himself appeared as the elephant to save his devotee.
Hathi means elephant in Hindi, and he frequently chants Ram. That's how he got his name.
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