Pandaga Chesko () is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language masala film directed by Gopichand Malineni and produced by Paruchuri Kireeti on the United Movies banner. The film stars Ram, Rakul Preet Singh and Sonal Chauhan and Sampath Raj, Abhimanyu Singh, Sai Kumar, Adithya, Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh, Pavitra Lokesh, Tejaswi Madivada, Vennela Kishore and Raghu Babu in other important roles. The story was penned by Veligonda Srinivas and the screenplay was provided by Kona Venkat and Anil Ravipudi, with the former writing the dialogues. S. Thaman composed the music, while Sameer Reddy and Gautham Raju handled the cinematography and editing of the film, respectively.
The film is about a millionaire from Portugal who visits his family in India to resolve an old family issue. The film was officially launched on 17 May 2014 at Film Nagar in Hyderabad. The principal photography of the film started on 16 June 2014 at Hyderabad.
Plot
Karthik Pothineni (Ram Pothineni), a businessman runs a conglomerate in Portugal, living with his mother Saraswati (Pavitra Lokesh), father (Rao Ramesh), brother-in-law and sister. He also employed his father, brother-in-law, and sister, keeping them on their toes to leave no stone unturned to take his company to greater heights. He meets another millionaire named Anushka (Sonal Chauhan), for a business proposal, where she decides to propose Karthik for marriage as a calculated move for their business. She also has to tie the knot with an Indian, in order to inherit her father's wealth. They get engaged, but Karthik's family is disappointed by the proposal. One of Karthik's companies gets into legal trouble due to a case registered by "The Green Army", headed by Divya (Rakul Preet Singh), against his factory, where Karthik heads to India to sort out the issue.
Karthik tries hard to convince Divya to withdraw her case, but in vain. Despite being engaged to Anushka, Karthik goes to a great extent of trying to impress Divya. However, Karthik later reveals his actual purpose behind coming to India, as he is the son of Bhupathi's sister Saraswati, who has been staying away from her family for the past 25 years. Divya's father and his three brothers abandoned their respective wives and sent them back to their house to live with their own brother Sai Reddy (Sai Kumar), because he refused to marry Saraswathi. However, this was actually a sacrifice made by Sai Reddy because Saraswathi confessed that she was in love with someone else (Karthik's father).
After seeing Karthik's attempt to save Divya from Bhupathi (Sampath Raj) and Sai Reddy's rival gang Shiva Reddy (Adithya), Bhupati meets Karthik for a marriage proposal with Divya. Karthik leaves for her village and secretly discloses his identity to Divya and Sai Reddy after he fools Bhupathi and his brothers by reuniting with their wives. Surprisingly, Anushka too arrives and assumes that her marriage is scheduled in Divya's home. She irritates Divya and her family. Karthik makes "Weekend" Venkat Rao (Brahmanandam) think that Anushka will marry him if he marries Divya. Before the marriage day, a gangster named Shankar (Abhimanyu Singh) who was in love with Divya, sends men to kidnap her.
Karthik takes up the chance and fools them to believe that Anushka is the bride. They kidnap Anushka and Venkat Rao. In anger that the time for the property is up, she forces Shankar to tie the mangalsutra and Venkat Rao escapes. Meanwhile, Shiva Reddy kidnap Divya in the temple. Karthik arrives and beats them up and convinces everybody to reunite with his mother and her family and marries Divya, bringing festival for the family. On their first night, Karthik and Divya are called by Anushka who in a money-minded manner says she married Shankar for the property, but was actually fooled by Karthik and Divya.