Auto Driver
1998 Telugu film directed by Suresh Krissna
Auto Driver is a 1998 Indian Telugu film, produced by D. Siva Prasad Reddy under the Kamakshi Movies banner, directed by Suresh Krishna. It stars Nagarjuna, Deepti Bhatnagar and Simran, with music composed by Deva. It was dubbed into Tamil as Autokaran. The film was a box office failure.
Plot
It tells the story of an importable auto driver who falls in love with a college student. They live happily until the girl's father rejects their love and a villain is also into the girl. Who is the villain and how the auto driver convinces the heroine's love to her father forms the rest of the story.
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Soundtrack
Music was composed by Deva.
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