Mahakavi Kalidasu

The Avanti king (Lingamurthy) refuses to give his daughter Vidyadhari in marriage to his minister Hariharamathyudu’s (K.V.S. Sarma) son. The villainous minister brings the illiterate sheppard Kaludu (ANR) off as a great scholar. After the marriage she faints and learns she has been cheated. Fearing for her life she prays and Goddess Kali appears before him and grants a boon that he will acquire new knowledge.