In a fictional village near Kurnool, a small-time thief gets caught in conspiracies and what follows is a cocktail of crime and comedy. Gam Gam Ganesha, written and directed by first-timer Uday Shetty, will feature actor Anand Deverakonda as a gregarious protagonist quite different from the man-next-door characters he has done so far.

In this interview in Hyderabad, talking about the film scheduled to release in theatres on May 31, the actor says, “Gam Gam… is far removed from my default state of calmness. There is an energetic side of me that comes out only in the company of close buddies. In this film, I sport spiked hair, and a tattoo and am hyper.” Initially, he wondered if people would warm up to the character. “Such questions stemmed from fear and I used them as motivational factors to do something new.”