Auto Raja is a 1980 Indian Kannada-language romance film directed by Vijay, based on a screenplay by M. D. Sundar.

The film was produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar's sister husband C. Jayaram[1] under the banner of Sapthaswara Movie Makers.

Raja who dislikes the rich for he believes them to be arrogant, faces humiliation at Bhavani's birthday party by some of her guests.

In order to achieve it, he has planned of getting her married to Psychiatrist Dr. Dinakar's son Sudhakar, a womanizer with whom he would equally share her property.

Upon narrating the incident to Bhaskar Rao, he tells Bhavani that he lost her mother and their previous house, all the photos in a fire accident.

Rajan-Nagendra reused the tune of Nanna Aase Hannagi [5] for the 1983 Telugu movie Puli Bebbuli as Parimalinchu Punnamilo.

[7] Four decades after the movie release too, Shankar Nag's photo adorns auto rickshaws across Karnataka.