Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.
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| Directed by | Jayanth C. Paranjee |
| Produced by | Akkineni Ravi Shankara Prasad |
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| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
| Cinematography | K. Dattu |
| Edited by | Marthand K. Venkatesh |
| Distributed by | Gemini Film Circuit |
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174 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
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| Soundtrack album to Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. by Devi Sri Prasad | ||||
| Released | 4 September 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
| Genre | Feature film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 30:42 | |||
| Language | Telugu | |||
| Label | Supreme Music | |||
| Producer | Devi Sri Prasad | |||
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Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. is a 2004 Telugu comedy-drama film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee starring Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Sonali Bendre, Paresh Rawal and Girish Karnad. Jyothika was the first choice as heroine. It is a remake of the Bollywood film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. The film is one of the most highly anticipated and one of the biggest block busters in 2004. Chiranjeevi and Srikanth won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu awards respectively. The film was followed by a 2007 sequel, Shankar Dada Zindabad.
Shankar Prasad, nicknamed "Shankar Dada" (literally "Brother Shankar") is a bhai or gunda: a crime don in Hyderabad. Given that his father had wished him to be a medical doctor, he creates the faux Sri Satya Prasad Charitable Hospital (named after his father) and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father (Girish Karnad) and mother (Venniradai Nirmala) visit him in Hyderabad.
One year, however, Shankar's plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Ramalingeswara Rao (Paresh Rawal) and the two older men decide to marry Shankar to Ramalingeswara Rao's daughter, Dr. Sunitha "Chitti" (Sonali Bendre). At this point the truth about Shankar is revealed. Ramalingeswara Rao insults Shankar's parents and calls them "fools" for being ignorant of Shankar's real life. Shankar's father and mother, aghast and later heartbroken, leave for their village. Shankar, in grief and despair, decides that the only way to redeem himself and to gain revenge for the humiliation suffered by his father at the hands of the spiteful Ramalingeswara Rao is to become a doctor. He decides to go to a medical college to obtain an M.B.B.S. degree, the graduate medical degree in South Asia.
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