Court – State vs. A Nobody is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language legal drama film written and directed by Ram Jagadeesh in his directorial debut; it was produced by Prashanti Tipirneni and presented by Nani, under Wall Poster Cinema.[3][4] The film stars Priyadarshi Pulikonda, Harsh Roshan, Sridevi, and Sivaji alongside, P. Sai Kumar, Harsha Vardhan, Rohini, Subhalekha Sudhakar, Surabhi Prabhavathi, and Rajasekhar Aningi.
The film was released on 14 March 2025 to positive reviews from critics and was successful at the box office grossing ₹48.75 crore worldwide.[2]
Surya Teja is a junior lawyer at a Law firm owned by Mohan Rao. He aspires to one day be given and win an individual case so that he can be more than what his father was able to do, which was notarise documents.
Chandrashekar is a 19-year-old boy who does numerous errands to support himself. His family constitutes his father, who works as a watchman in a plot of land, his mother and sister. Chandrashekar is contacted by a 17-year-old girl, Jabilli who comes from a well to do family and is friend of his neighbour. Soon the teenagers fall in love.
Mangapathi, married to Jabilli's paternal aunt, is considered as the head of the family, as Jabilli's father has died. Mangapathi uses his lawyer Damodhar and bribes the police office to create false cases against people he believes have done something to tarnish his, and by extension his family, image or honour.
When Mangapathi finds out Jabili is discretely spending time with Chandrashekar, he gets Chandrashekar arrested and charged with the POCSO act, a law designed to quickly and effectively convict rapists and pedophiles of minor victims.
How Surya Teja happens to stumble upon this case and if justice is served to Chandrashekar forms the crux of the story.
Ram Jagadeesh approached Priyadarshi Pulikonda with a romance story, which Priyadarshi was not interested in. Then Ram Jagadeesh told Priyadarshi about a friend of his who was wrongly accused of a crime. Priyadarshi asked Ram to research similar cases.[5] Subsequently, Ram read case files related to the POCSO Act.[6] He drew inspiration from the case files he read and developed a fictional story.[7] The screenplay was written by Ram Jagadeesh with Karthikeya Sreenivass and Vamsidhar Sirigiri.[1] The film was produced by Prashanti Tipirneni, while Deepthi Ganta co-produced it.[8][9] In August 2024, Nani announced that he would present the film Court – State vs a Nobody, unveiling a title motion poster.[10][11] Principal photography began in September 2024.[1]
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