Shankar Dada Zindabad 2007

Shankar Dada is a local gangster (dada in Telugu) and ATM serves as his right-hand man. He falls for Jahnavi, a radio jockey, after hearing her voice on an FM channel. When a contest is announced on Gandhi and his preachings with a chance to meet the radio jockey, he forcefully recruits a few professors to help make his dream come true.

With the help of the professors, he wins the contest and meets her. Jahnavi invites him to the “Second Innings” House where old men give lectures on Gandhigiri. With no options left, Shankar goes to the library and reads about Gandhi. As he studies Gandhi, he hallucinates Gandhi, whom he calls Bapu. This vision guides him in spreading positive messages to society.

Shankar starts to visit the Second Innings House frequently to meet Jahnavi. Rajalingam, a cunning businessman, seeks to forcefully buy out that house, for the marriage of his daughter. Learning that Jahnavi is staying with the old men, Rajalingam sends Shankar and Jahnavi along with the old men on a foreign trip and gets the building vacated by ATM, who is unaware of Rajalingam’s plan.

Shankar, furious upon learning this, adopts Gandhigiri instead of Dadagiri. To teach him a lesson, Shankar and the old men stage Satyagraha. At one point, Shankar reveals to Jahnavi that he was not a professor and only a local dada, so Jahnavi hates him and leaves the place.

When Rajalingam’s daughter’s marriage is about to be canceled, Shankar enters the scene and tries to convince the bridegroom’s father. Although he refuses to accept the alliance, the groom remains a fan of Shankar after hearing him on the FM programme. In the end, Shankar and Jahnavi reunite.