The film stars Chiranjeevi, Sonali Bendre, Srikanth, Girish Karnad, and Paresh Rawal.

It received positive reviews and was commercially successful completing 100 days run at the box office.

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 is to become a doctor.

With the help of his right-hand man, ATM, and others, Shankar cheats to gain admission to the Osmania College of Medical Sciences, where he again encounters Ramalingeswara, who is the dean.

Despite the school's emphasis on mechanical, impersonal, often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Shankar constantly seeks to enact more empathetic, almost holistic, regimens.

To this end, he defies convention by being friendly with a catatonic child named Sriram as if the kid were able to listen and understand; humiliating bullies at the hospital; effusively thanking a hitherto-underappreciated janitor; and providing a listening ear to patients, encouraging the patients themselves to make changes in their lives for the better.

Ramalingeswara, who perceives all of this as symptoms of chaos, is unable to prevent Shankar's efforts from expanding and gaining ground at his college.

As he is leaving, Shankar discovers that a couple of the doctors at the hospital have been doling out ineffective medicines for their own profit.

The celebrities who graced this occasion include K. Raghavendra Rao, D. Ramanaidu, C. Aswini Dutt, KL Narayana, KS Rama Rao, Allu Aravind, Vijaya Bapineedu, Shyam Prasad Reddy, C Kalyan, KC Sekhara Babu, Tagore Madhu, Dil Raju, Ashok Kumar, Chanti Affala, Arjuna Raju, Burugapally Sivarama Krishna, V. V. Vinayak, Sreenu Vaitla, Satya Murthy, Allu Arjun, Ali, Rohit etc.