Bhale Dongalu (1976 film)

Bhale Dongalu
Directed byK. S. R. Das
Produced byG. Sambasiva Rao
P. Babji
StarringKrishna
Manjula
Mohan Babu
Padmanabham
Jayamalini
CinematographyPushpala Gopikrishna
Edited byN.S. Prakasam
D. Venkat Ratnam
Music bySatyam
Production
company
Trimurti Productions
Release date
  • 29 October 1976 (1976-10-29)
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Bhale Dongalu is a 1976 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by K. S. R. Das and produced under Trimurti Productions. The film stars Krishna and Manjula, with Mohan Babu, Prabhakar Reddy, Padmanabham, and Nagabhushanam in supporting roles. The music was composed by Satyam. It is a remake of the 1974 Hindi film Chor Machaye Shor.

The film follows Sekhar, an engineer wrongfully imprisoned, who escapes with fellow inmates and finds himself in a remote village entangled in a web of danger and corruption. Notably, Bhale Dongalu was the first Telugu film to be made in Fujicolor. It was a commercial success.