Adalu Badalu is a 1979 Indian Kannada-language action film directed by C. V. Rajendran and written by Shanmukhapriya. The film stars Srinath, Aarathi, M. P. Shankar and Dwarakish. The soundtrack and background score were composed by Vijaya Bhaskar, while the cinematography and editing were handled by R. Madhusudan and Yadav Victor. The dialogues were written by Chi. Udaya Shankar.^[1][2]

Inspector Murali is assigned to track down and arrest a smuggler named Bairaa, where he disguise himself as a diamond merchant to nab him, only to get killed by Bairaa as the latter knew about his identity. Due to this, Murali's brother Inspector Mohan takes up the case in order to seek vengeance for Murali's death.