Chikkadu Dorakadu is a 1988 Telugu-language action film, produced by S. P. Venkanna Babu for Maheswari Movies and directed by Relangi Narasimha Rao. It stars Rajendra Prasad, Rajani and music composed by Raj–Koti.

Plot

Raja & Rani are petty thieves, they are students of a thieves' college headed by Principal Krishna Paramatma. In the beginning, their acquaintance starts with funny quarrels and later both of them fall in love. Parallelly, Gayatri Devi owner of the Ratnagiri estate, has two sons Pedababu Pradeep and Chinababu Dileep. Pradeep died in a car accident, he has a wife Sumitra, and three children. Sumitra went into mental shock in that accident. Meanwhile, Dileep is studying in the States. Therefore, Gayatri Devi's three brothers Satyam, Sivam, and Sundaram are looking after her property. All of them are criminals, who have murdered Pradeep, waiting for an opportunity to kill Dileep to grab their property and most valuable the family heritage Suryakanthi diamond. Once in the city, the trio is surprised to see Raja who resembles Dileep. So, they make a plan and replace him instead of Dileep by telling him cock and bull story and luring him with money. On the other side, Sundaram secretly gives a deal to Krishna Paramatma for the robbery of the Suryakanthi diamond. He assigns the task to Rani and she too reaches the estate as a teacher to the children in the name of Seeta Devi. Both Raja & Rani meet there but they act as if they don't know each other. After some time, the trio kills Dileep keeps the blame on Raja, and makes him arrested. But surprisingly Dileep comes back and Raja also escapes from jail to revenge against the trio. In this process, Rani detects that Raja is only playing the double game as Dileep too. When she questions about this, he reveals the depravity and evil plans of the trio and he is out with the help of S.I.Rama Rao the wellwisher of the family to bring out the crimes of the trio. The rest of the story is a comic tale, that Raja protecting the family, teasing the trio, and seeing their end.