A massive fight ensues. Shankar fights like a trickster—using cooking pots as shields, throwing chili powder, and tripping goons with ropes. His father, redeemed, takes on Nayak’s top henchman in a brutal, emotional brawl. Finally, Shankar confronts Nayak. He doesn’t kill him. Instead, he ties him to the same wooden wheel and hands him over to the arriving police.
Gangaram, drunk and desperate for money, arrives in the village. To Shankar’s horror, Gangaram becomes an informant for Nayak, revealing Shankar’s true identity as a con man. Nayak captures Shankar, ties him to a wooden wheel in the village square, and publicly flogs him. He orders Swathi to be locked away.
The story unfolds in the lush, tradition-bound Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh, a land of violent family feuds and rigid honor codes. Dominating this landscape is the formidable Sarpendra Nayak, a feudal lord who rules his village with an iron fist. gudumba shankar moviezwap
Shankar and his now-sober father unleash a plan that is half-fistfight, half-elaborate con. Shankar had secretly been documenting Nayak’s crimes—land grabs, murders, illegal sand mining—and had mailed the evidence to the local district judge (whom he had previously helped). As Nayak’s goons attack, Shankar uses the village’s own loudspeaker system to broadcast the judge’s arrest warrant live.
This is the emotional turning point. Gangaram, seeing his son’s blood, finally wakes up from his decade-long stupor. The old warrior in him stirs. He grabs a staff, breaks the wheel, and stands beside Shankar. For the first time, he looks his son in the eye and says, "I am sorry." A massive fight ensues
The village is freed. Swathi passes her medical entrance exam. Shankar, having reconciled with his father, decides to settle down. The final scene is not a grand wedding, but a quiet moment: Shankar, Swathi, and Gangaram sharing a simple meal of gudumba (jaggery) and rice—a symbol that true sweetness comes not from grand cons or violence, but from hard-won peace and family.
To get closer to Swathi, Shankar takes a job as a cook in Nayak’s sprawling mansion. His "Gudumba" persona—loud, seemingly foolish, but secretly observant—drives the household staff crazy. He deliberately burns the Biryani, spills oil on the prized carpets, and sings off-key during the family prayer. Everyone thinks he’s a lunatic, except Swathi, who senses a method to his madness. Finally, Shankar confronts Nayak
They fall in love during a series of secret, exhilarating adventures—rooftop conversations under the stars, a hilarious sequence where they steal Nayak’s jeep to deliver medicine to a sick child, and a beautiful duet where they imagine a life free from tyranny.