
Daaku Maharaaj OTT Release: Daaku Maharaaj is a 2025 Telugu-language action thriller directed by Bobby Kolli. The film features Nandamuri Balakrishna in the lead role, alongside Bobby Deol, Pragya Jaiswal, Shraddha Srinath, and Urvashi Rautela.
Upon its release on January 12, 2025, coinciding with the Sankranti festival, the film garnered mixed to positive reviews. Critics praised Balakrishna’s commanding performance and the film’s technical aspects, though some noted the storyline’s predictability.
At the box office, “Daaku Maharaaj” achieved significant success, with an opening day collection of ₹25.35 crore in India.
The movie is set to come out on Netflix’s streaming platform, although no streaming date has been finalized.
Plot
The story begins with Sitaram, a highly skilled civil engineer respected for his intelligence and hard work. However, due to a personal tragedy involving the loss of his family to political corruption and organized crime, Sitaram leaves his career.
He assumes a new identity as Nanaji, a humble driver in a remote tea estate. An elderly man, Jagannath Prasad, owns the tea estate and has raised his granddaughter, Vaishnavi, as her sole guardian.
Vaishnavi, an intelligent and compassionate young woman, is preparing to inherit the estate. Jagannath Prasad faces pressure from a corrupt local MLA, Trimurthulu Naidu. Because he seeks to seize the estate for his own gain.
Naidu’s henchmen repeatedly threaten the family and disrupt their peaceful lives. Enter Nanaji, who works as a driver and caretaker for the estate. Though he appears to be a quiet and unassuming man, he gradually gains the trust of Vaishnavi and Jagannath Prasad.
Unknown to them, Nanaji is Sitaram in disguise, meticulously planning to protect them from Naidu’s advances. The narrative escalates when Balwant Singh Thakur, a notorious crime lord, and Sitaram’s old nemesis, discovers that Sitaram is alive and living as Nanaji.
By night, Daaku Maharaaj takes on the criminals threatening the estate, using his engineering expertise and strategic brilliance to dismantle their operations.