Goutham Nanda

Goutham Nanda is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Sampath Nandi. The film stars Gopichand in a double role along with Hansika Motwani and Catherine Tresa while Mukesh Rishi, Sachin Khedekar, and Nikitin Dheer appear in supporting roles. The film has music composed by S. Thaman. The plot follows two lookalikes, Goutham and Nanda, who meet while trying to end their lives. Goutham is a billionaire's spoiled son who wants to feel emotions and Nanda is a poverty-stricken software engineer who wants to become a billionaire. They decide to swap their identities for a month and eventually face challenges from each other as they both start savoring the lives they wanted to live. The film was released theatrically on 28 July 2017 where it received positive reviews with praise for the production values, action sequences, performances, soundtrack and dialogues. Despite failing commercially, it became the highest grossing film in Gopichand's career. It later became a cult classic. Plot Goutham Ghattamaneni is the only son of Ghattamaneni Vishnu Prasad, the 50th richest billionaire in the world. He does not have any emotions and leads a luxurious life in Bangalore, Karnataka. Mugdha, the daughter of Vishnu Prasad's business partner Mudra, is deeply in love with Goutham. At a party, a waiter spills food on his jeans, making Goutham slap and insult him. The waiter calls him a spoiled brat who doesn't know himself, leading Goutham to realize that he does not have any individual identity without his father. In an attempt to end his life, he crashes his car into another person, who turns out to be his doppelganger Nanda Kishore. Both of them reveal their stories to each other. Nanda hails from a lower-middle-class family, living in a slum in Hyderabad with his parents and sister, along with Spoorthi, who is in love with him. Nanda's aspiration to develop an app fails, due to which his father sends him to Bangalore to get a job. However, he chooses to end his life which would enable his family to claim insurance. Now, Goutham is also fed-up with an opulent lifestyle and wants to feel the emotions of living in poverty. Both of them decide to exchange their lives for a month, which would expose them to experience the lifestyle that they have been craving for, after which Goutham would be introduced to the world as the sole heir of his father's wealth.