Devara Gedda Manava (pronunciationⓘ) is a 1967 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by Hunsur Krishnamurthy and produced by Y. V. Rao.

One day after losing quite the stake in a gambling match, he gets into a quarrel with some drunk people but they somehow escape with his money.

Bored and hungry, he started worshipping Lord Shiva knowing that after the rituals the food will be transformed into prasada.

Having quenched his hunger, he requests Lord Shiva for a gambling match, but plays the die both sides by himself.

Goddess Parvathy who's watching this from Kailasa decides to curse him, but Lord Shiva stops her and drops his Damaruka as a stake for Vijaya's victory.

He summons Ramba from Indraloka by accident, who tries to explain him that the Lord doesn't give away his precious Damaruka like that and it has to be a mistake.

Vijaya refuses to listen to her and tells her that he won that square and fair, and if she thinks it should be with the Lord, she has to win it from him and return it to Him.

On the other side, a demon named Mahabala has taken over the Kingdom of Swarnanagari and has captured both the ruler Yaksha Maharaja Devavrata and his daughter Mitravinda Devi.

He orders his subordinates Karkataka, Durmukha, Atibala and Nijabala to guard all the entrances and make sure no human enters the city before his penance is complete.

One fine day, Vijaya's mom catches him trying to go to gamble again and locks him up with the help of his younger brother Guruva (aka Guru) and asks him to keep watch of him.

They succeed in making him vomit the mango kernel and leaving him to die, they clean it up and consume it only to find their plans have simply been in vain.

Thinking that this will be useful in teaching a lesson to those women who left him to die, he collects a few fruits of all sizes and leaves the place.

He heads back to their place and tricks them into eating those fruits and transforms the mother into a dog and her daughter into a monkey.

The Lord laughs at his cleverness and orders them to bring him telling that this time the invitation is from Shiva himself so that he won't refuse to come.

In his brief rule, he orders all the demigods like Agni, Vayu, Varuna and Yama to be better as he's seen many people and their crops being burned down, cyclones, floods and unfair deaths.

After increasing his lifespan by ordering Chitragupta to do it, he warns all the gods that if things don't go as told by him, he will come back there.

But soon his soul from Indraloka returns to his body and wakes up making him the resurrected man, scaring away the carrying crowd.

He just says that he'd like to break Ramba’s curse by using the Abhisheka-jala and requests the King to perform pooja to the Lord.