A beautiful Western and Carnatic fusion from Illayaraja for this Telugu film

Abhilasha is the first combination of Illayaraja and Chiranjeevi. This movie is based on a novel by the same name by legendary Telugu writer Yendamuri Veerendranath, exploring the theme of capital punishment. The novel seems to have taken inspiration from Two American films The Man Who Dared (1946) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956).