What is "kirathakudu"

Kirathakudu is a 1986 Telugu Crime film, based on the novel written by Yandamuri Veerendranath. The film was directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, Silk Smitha and Kongara Jaggayya in important roles. S. V. Krishna Reddy plays an unusual role of a eunuch who later made many movies as a director.

This film is based on an imagination that by 1995-2000, the number of criminals in the country would drastically increase and the government cannot maintain the prisons. It demarcate some of the areas as crime zones and build a protection around them.