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Manalo Okkadu (2016)

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Manalo Okkadu (2016) The film opens with Raghu Babu, the Editor of a sensationalist TV channel Moodokannu taking a new employee through how melodrama and worse are manufactured by money-crazy (TRP-crazy is a euphemism) journalists in newsrooms. Krishnamurthy (RP Patnaik) is a devoted, unblemished college lecturer who goes out of his way to burn the midnight oil in educating his students.  His wife Sravani (Anitha, who was catapulted to overnight stardom by Teja's 'Nuvvu Nenu') is happy, teaching music and reveling in her husband's unbeatable fame for being unimpeachable. Catharsis strikes this paragon of virtues when a girl student calls up Moodonkannu channel, alleging that Krishnamurthy sir has been making sexual advances to her.  In a span of a day, the ideal man Krishnamurthy's track record goes for a toss and he returns home that day only to find his wife seeing him as a villain unworthy of being talked to. Krishnamurthy's quest for justice falls apart when Prathap (Sai Kumar), the baron of Moodokannu, and Jaya (Sree Mukhi), the journalist who did a genuine error in confusing lab assistant Krishnamurthy for Chemistry lecturer Krishnamurthy, tell him to not crib about the character assassination.  Overnight, the job is gone, parents of the college's students literally chase him away, and the entire population of the town (dramatically) look at him as a rapist on the prowl and a pedophile. It's now up to Krishnamurthy to teach Prathap and the entire fraudulent Fourth Estate system a lesson by scheming to beat them with the same stick as they used against him.  In this task, he has an unlikely partner..
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