Srihari proved himself as a versatile artiste in the Telugu film industry. He started his career as villain. ater he played character artiste roles and then turned hero. However, there are no notable hits in the recent past for Srihari as hero, though his films in which he played character artiste were blockbusters. His very recent release Hanumanthu won critical acclaim, but failed to do well at the box-office. This time, he played Hero in sri Mahalaxmi, which is a remake of Malayalam hit Chintamani Kola Case.
It is being produced on their own banner Sri Chalana Chitra. It is like for Srihari, by Srihari nd of Srihari. You could watch him on the screen in details. It is learnt that Dasari Narayana Rao who had the remake rights had offered it to Srihari, when the latter pleaded him. Lakshmi Krishna Devaraya alias LK (Srihari) is a popular criminal lawyer. e always fights for the hardcore criminals and help them win the cases. However, LK feels that he is the representative of God. After winning the case, e used to kill the accused on whose behalf he argued case and made them emerge ictorious in the name of cosmic law and cosmic justice.
The reason is that if some others argue the case, the accused gets scot-free and might do similar crime. In the process LK kills Isra Quresh (Ajay), who raped and killed a teacher. Likewise, LK kills Pondicherry Varadan. At this juncture, some NRIs plead with LK to save their children, on whom a murder case was pending. As per the facts of the case, one Sri Mahalakshmi (Shamna), an MBBS student, daughter of a teacher Sambamurthy (Sri Tilakan), was killed by some nine NRI girls.