Mirapakay (2011)

Rishi takes a job as a Hindi lecturer at a college in Hyderabad, where he quickly becomes a favourite of the students and charms a lively student. In reality he is an intelligence officer on an undercover mission to track down a dangerous gangster operating from abroad, and the college is his way into the circle of people around the target. As the mission advances, his romance and his job collide. Mirapakay ("chilli") was a big Sankranti 2011 hit, driven by Ravi Teja's high-energy comedy and S. Thaman's songs, and it established director Harish Shankar, who went on to make Gabbar Singh.