Bachhala Malli (2024) on Netflix

Plot summary

Bachhala Malli lives by stitching jute bags in his village, where his violent temper and heavy drinking keep people at a distance. Years earlier he was the top student in his district in his tenth-grade examinations, and he was close to his father, Bachhala Satyanarayana, a businessman. Padma, with whom Satyanarayana kept a second relationship, threatened to take her own life unless he chose her, and Satyanarayana's father made him pick between his family and Padma. He left, and the child Malli, watching, rejected him from then on. Malli began smoking and was expelled from college when he would not produce his father for the authorities. Back home in the 1990s, he learns his father has bought land in his name and refuses it, then meets Kaveri, a student, at his niece Rajyam's wedding.