Gudumba Shankar

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Gudumba Shankar
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Directed by Veera Shankar
Screenplay by Pawan Kalyan
Dialogues by
  • Satyanand
Story bySatyanand
Produced by Nagendra Babu
StarringPawan Kalyan
Meera Jasmine
Ashish Vidyarthi
Cinematography Chota K. Naidu
Edited byYusuf Khan
Music by Mani Sharma
Production
company
Release date
  • 10 September 2004 (2004-09-10)
Running time
176 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Gudumba Shankar is a 2004 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Veera Shankar and produced by Nagendra Babu under Anjana Productions banner. Pawan Kalyan plays the title 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 was an average grosser at the box office. [1]

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Plot

Gudumba Shankar is a small-time thief who makes a living by arresting people. On his way to Mumbai, he accidentally meets Gowri. 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 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. Shankar blackmails Parabrahma (to disclose his illicit affair) and joins the wedding house as the wedding planner along with Paidiraju 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

Music

The film has six songs composed by Mani Sharma:

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1."Le Le Le Le" Chandrabose KK 05:00
2."Chiguraaku Chaatu Chiluka" Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry Sunitha, S. P. B. Charan 04:50
3."Chilakamma"Chandrabose Karthik, Sri vardhini05:13
4."Chitti Nadumune"Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry Mallikarjun, Premgi Amaren 04:54
5."Emantaro"ChandraboseS. P. B. Charan, Harini06:07
6."Kili Kili"MasterjiMuralidhar , Pawan Kalyan 05:19

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!" [2] Griddaluru Goplarao of Zamin Ryot also criticized the weak storyline and screenplay. [3]

Re-release

Gudumba Shankar was re-released after 19 years. The initial date was fixed as August 31, 2023. Then it got postponed and was re-released on September 2, on Pawan Kalyan's birthday, marked as one of the highest grosser amongst the recent re-releases. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "'Gudumba Shankar' completes 14 years: Take a look at the highlights of the Pawan Kalyan starrer". The Times of India. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Gudumba Shankar". Sify . Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Gopalrao, Griddaluru (24 September 2004). "చితా సమీక్ష: బుడుంగుమన్న గుడుంబా శంకర్" (PDF). Zamin Ryot (in Telugu). p. 9.
  4. ↑ https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2023/08/31/meera-jasmine-gudumba-shankar-pawan-kalyan-movie-update-re-release-in-theatres.html
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