Pandem


Pandem is a 2005 Telugu drama film produced by Valluripally Ramesh Babu under the Maharshi Cinema banner and directed by Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy. It stars Jagapati Babu and Kalyani in the lead roles, with music composed by Chakri. It was dubbed into Hindi as Mera Challenge.

Plot

Seenu is a good-for-nothing guy in a village, who always roams with a gang. Lingaraju has been the unanimouslt elected president of that village for the past 25 years, who is corrupt and behaves as a dictator to the village. Seeta comes as an elementary school teacher and belongs to the same village. Seeta is Seenu’s childhood friend, he falls in love with her at first sight. Seenu plays a lot of tricks and tactics to gain her love and affection. One day, Seenu comes to know that Seeta wants to marry a guy who is in a better position than her.
Meanwhile, Lingaraju makes a heavy contract deal with a few business people, who want to construct a factory in the village, which is hazardous to the people. Simultaneously, it’s time for elections in the town. Lingaraju is overconfident that no one comes as his opposition. But Seenu decides to stand in the election and become president of the village so that he could reach a superior position to Seeta and he could marry her. In the beginning, no one comes for his support because he is an irresponsible lout of the village, but with Seeta’s inspiration he succeeds in achieving the villagers' following and affection by doing all good deeds, which Lingaraju could not do these long years. After seeing Seenu’s following, Lingaraju hesitates, at the same time he comes to known his son Rajesh loves Seeta. So he makes a plan and arranges his son's engagement with Seeta, to demoralize Seenu. Even then, Seenu challenges Lingaraju that he would defeat him. The remaining story is how Seenu achieves both his objectives.

Cast

Music was composed by Chakri. Music was released on ADITYA Music Company.