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Gudumba Shankar
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Wikipedia article
'Gudumba Shankar' is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Veera Shankar Bairisetty and produced by Nagendra Babu under Anjana Productions. Pawan Kalyan plays the titular role in addition to writing the screenplay. The film also stars Meera Jasmine and Ashish Vidyarthi while Sayaji Shinde, Brahmanandam and Ali play supporting roles. The music was scored by Mani Sharma with cinematography by Chota K. Naidu. The film received lukewarm response from the audience and was commercially average.
Plot
Gudumba Shankar (Pawan Kalyan) is a small-time thief who makes a living by arresting people. On his way to Mumbai, he accidentally meets Gowri (Meera Jasmine). Both of them are forced to travel together. A few more incidents make them good friends. Shankar realizes that Gowri is a girl who ran away from her house. By then, they start having feelings for each other. A rowdy named Kumaraswamy (Ashish Vidyarthi) wants to marry Gowri forcibly,as her astrology is auspicious for him, which is why she runs away from her home. Soon, Kumarasamy takes Gowri back to the house.
Kumaraswamy is extremely superstitious and heavily depends on the astrology of Parabrahma Swamy (Brahmanandam). Shankar blackmails Parabrahma (to disclose his illicit affair) and joins the wedding house as the wedding planner along with Ali and two other buddies. Shankar later tricks Kumaraswamy into thinking that Gowri is inauspicious for him and that if he marries her he would be destroyed. He plans elaborate tricks by burning or hurting someone wherever Gowri is involved. After Kumaraswamy leaves Shankar marries Gowri, but Kumaraswamy comes and beats up Shankar and kidnaps Gowri but Shankar miraculously wakes up and beats up everyone and takes Gowri back.
Cast
* Pawan Kalyan as Shankar Dikshit Lu/Gudumba Shankar
* Meera Jasmine as Gowri
* Ashish Vidyarthi as Kumaraswamy
* Sayaji Shinde as 'Bejawada' Shankar Narayana
* Brahmanandam as Parabrahma Swamy
* Ali as Gudumba Shankar's friend
* Sunil as Prabhu
* Kota Srinivasa Rao as Devudu
* Rajan P. Dev as Kumaraswamy's uncle
* Sudeepa Pinky as Gowri's sister
* Bhuvaneswari
* Ravi Babu
* Kavitha
* Venu Madhav
* Ponnambalam
* Raghu Babu
* L. B. Sriram
* Tirupathi Prakash
* Natanya Singh in an item song "Killi Killi"
Music
The film has six songs composed by Mani Sharma:
Reception
'Sify' rated the film 3/5 and called it "disappointing." The reviewer wrote that "You desperately want to like the film for the maddeningly zany characters played out by Pawan, Meera, Ali, Brahmanandam and others. Alas but nobody can improve on this script full of scenes, inspired from half a dozen Hollywood and Bollywood films of yesteryears!" Griddaluru Goplarao of 'Zamin Ryot' also criticized the weak storyline and screenplay.
References
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