Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.
2004 film by Jayanth C. Paranjee
Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee. The film stars Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, Srikanth, Girish Karnad, and Paresh Rawal. It is a remake of the Hindi film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003). It received positive reviews and was commercially successful, completing a 100-day run at the box office. The film remains Sonali Bendre's last Telugu film till date.
Chiranjeevi and Srikanth both won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Telugu awards respectively at the South Filmfare Awards in 2005. In 2007, its sequel, Shankar Dada Zindabad was released.
Plot
Shankar Prasad, nicknamed "Shankar Dada" (literally "Rowdy Shankar"), is a bhai or goonda: a crime don in Hyderabad. Given that his father, Satya Prasad, 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 and mother visit him in Hyderabad.
One day, however, Shankar's plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr.
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