Aagadu (transl. He won’t stop) is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by Srinu Vaitla. Written by Anil Ravipudi, Upendra Madhav and Praveen Varma, the film was jointly produced by Ram Achanta, Gopi Achanta and Anil Sunkara under their banner 14 Reels Entertainment. It stars Mahesh Babu, Tamannaah Bhatia and Sonu Sood in lead roles while Rajendra Prasad, Ashish Vidyarthi, Nassar, and Brahmanandam play supporting roles.

Aagadu was Thaman S's 50th film as a music composer, with K. V. Guhan as the cinematographer and M. R. Varma as the editor. Mahesh played Shankar, an encounter specialist who becomes the circle inspector of police in Bukkapatnam. He is tasked with stopping the power plant construction by Damodar (Sonu Sood), a crime boss, due to its environmental impact. Shankar later learns that Damodar is responsible for his brother Bharath's death, leading him to seek revenge.

Principal photography for Aagadu began on 28 November 2013 and concluded on 5 September 2014. Most of the film was shot in and around Hyderabad, with additional locations including Mumbai, Gujarat, Ballari and Kerala. Some song sequences were filmed in Ladakh, Switzerland and Ooty, in addition to Hyderabad and Bellary. The post-production phase lasted for 50 days and was completed on 16 September 2014. Aagadu was theatrically released worldwide on 19 September 2014. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb.

Shankar, an orphan is raised by a sincere police officer Raja Ram. When Raja's son Bharath accidentally kills a kid, Shankar takes the blame for him. Shankar is imprisoned, and Raja warns him not to meet him again. After graduating, Shankar is employed as a circle inspector of police. He is popularly referred to as "Encounter" Shankar because of his track record as an encounter specialist.

Shankar is transferred to Bukkapatnam town in Tadipatri, Anantapur district. He is assigned the task of halting the illegal businesses of Damodar, an influential crime boss whose dream project is to build a power plant. Using his wits, Shankar destroys all the three main businesses of Damodar by befriending and trapping their respective in-charges: Lion Seenu, Ferocious Firangee and Super Sampangi. The three become Shankar's allies in the aftermath. He brings a stay on the power project by bringing a few vital witnesses before the court of law, thereby earning Damodar's ire. On a parallel note, Shankar loves a sweet shop owner named Saroja who reciprocates his feelings at a later point of time.

A person named Shekhar approaches Shankar, and through him, he informs Mallikarjuna Rao, the local Superintendent of Police, that he is the witness of the murder of environmentalist Prakash by Damodar. Damodar influences all the witnesses including Shekhar before Shankar could arrest him. He later learns that Raja's son Bharath, the previous district collector, killed himself and his wife, who was a friend of Prakash, because of defamation and personal attacks when Bharath tried to stop the power project.

Damodar held half of the share in the project whilst Mallikarjuna and central minister Nagaraju held the remaining half share. Before committing suicide, Bharath revealed the truth behind Shankar's imprisonment to Raja and unites them. Shankar seeks revenge, and with the help of a lawyer named Database Donayya, he gathers information regarding the power broker of this project named Delhi Suri, Mallikarjuna and Damodar's conservative girlfriend named Sukanya, who actually was an actress working in risqué films in the past.

By trapping initially and blackmailing later, Shankar gets hold of Delhi Suri with whose help, he creates a rift between Damodar and Nagaraju which leads to the latter's murder. By blackmailing Sukanya, they trap Mallikarjuna with her help and accuse him of attempting sexual assault on Sukanya. However, Mallikarjuna comes out of the closet and reveals that he is gay and was believed by none. He is murdered by poisoning.