Shankar Prasad (Chiranjeevi), 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 Satya Prasad (Girish Karnad) and mother (Venniradai Nirmala) visit him in Hyderabad.