Eshwar Prasad – Yogi (Prabhas) comes to Hyderabad to earn a living, leaving his mother (Sarada) in his village. He writes letters to her mother without mentioning his address. Months later his worried mother comes to Hyderabad in search of him. Eshwar Prasad changes to Yogi and enters in to a tussle with local goons. Will the mother and son meet forms the rest of the story.
Trade
The new look of Prabhas and the first look stills of the movie have increased the expectations on the movie by several folds. The movie however failed to live up to expectations and ended up a big flop.
Highlights
Yogi is the official remake of Kannada super hit movie, Jogi.
This is the first combination of Prabhas and Nayantara. Later they paired up for Billa.
Yogi is the first combination movie of Prabhas and V.V. Vinayak.
Sidelights
The movie had slight resemblance to his previous film Chatrapati in the core plot line- separation and reunion of mother and son. However if Chatrapati was the protagonist search for his mother, Yogi was the protagonist's mother search for her son. Incidentally, both the films star Prabhas in the lead role.
Prabhas for the first time in his career has appeared with long hair.
The film has been dubbed into Tamil as Murattu Thambi and in Hindi as Maa Kasam Badla Lunga.