Shankar Dada M.B.B.S.

Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. is a 2004 Telugu comedydrama film directed by Jayanth C. Paranjee starring Chiranjeevi, Srikanth, Sonali Bendre, Paresh Rawal and Girish Karnad. 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.

One year, however, Shankars 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 Raos daughter, Dr. Sunitha Chitti Sonali Bendre. At this point the truth about Shankar is revealed. Ramalingeswara Rao insults Shankars parents and calls them fools for being ignorant of Shankars real life. Shankars 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.With the help of his righthand man A.T.M. Srikanth and others, Shankar gains admission to the Osmania College of Medical Sciences, where he again encounters Dr. Ramalingeswara Rao, who is the dean. His success there becomes dependent upon the coerced help of faculty member Dr. Mohammad Rafi Surya. While Shankar Dadas skills as a medical doctor are minimal, he transforms those around him with the Jantar Mantar Heartful Hug a method of comfort taught to Shankar by his mother and the compassion he shows towards those in need. Despite the schools emphasis on mechanical, Cartesian, impersonal, often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Shankar constantly seeks to impose a more empathetic, almost holistic, regimen. To this end, he defies all convention by treating a braindead child called Sriram Vaishnav Tej as if the kid were able to perceive and understand normally interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients humiliates school bullies effusively thanks a hithertounderappreciated janitor and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery. ........

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