Yamadonga (transl. The grand thief – transl. The thief of Yama) is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language fantasy action comedy film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad. It was produced by Chiranjeevi Pedamallu and Gangaraju Gunnam under Visvamitra Creations. It stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Mohan Babu, Priyamani, and Mamta Mohandas.

Inspired by the 1977 film Yamagola, the plot follows Raja, a thief who is killed by his rivals. Raja's soul travels to Naraka (hell) to face the trail for his sins by Yama, the Hindu god of death and justice. The film began its production in January 2007 and was made on a budget of ₹16–18 crore (US$4.3–4.8 million). Filming primarily took place in Hyderabad and Ramoji Film City. The film has music composed by M. M. Keeravani and cinematography by K. K. Senthil Kumar.

Yamadonga was released worldwide on 15 August 2007. Upon release, it received positive reviews from critics, collecting a distributor share of ₹29 crores, and emerged as a blockbuster, becoming the highest-grossing Telugu film of 2007. The film was the highest grossing Telugu film of the year. It won four Nandi Awards while Rama Rao Jr., went on to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu.

Raja, an orphan boy, is a thief in Hyderabad. Maheswari "Mahi", a young girl, falls in love with him. Raja manipulates her by gaining her sympathy. She gives him a necklace, which he throws away because it is worthless; however, it always comes back to him. 12 years later, Mahi's family treats her like a slave while they enjoy the money that her grandfather left behind. Mahi waits for her "prince" to come to rescue her. Raja is still a conman, but when he enters into the debt of Dhanalakshmi, a beautiful but not-so-innocent lender, he flees.

Meanwhile, Mahi's family wants Mahi out of the way so that they can inherit all of her money. They hire someone to kill her, only to find out that in the event of Mahi's death, all the money goes to charity. Raja saves Mahi and treats her like a princess, which she waited for since her childhood. Raja made a deal with Mahi's uncles, which goes wrong when they think that he has demanded a ransom of ₹45 crores. They hire a goon to kill Raja. Raja reaches Yamaloka after his murder. He gets to know that Yama planned his death to take revenge on Raja who once made fun of Yama drunkenly and threatened him. Raja creates confusion by stealing the Yamapasam, since one in possession of Yamapasam becomes the King of Hell. Raja promises festivals and parties and to make Hell better than Heaven. Yama contests his claim. Narada enters the scene and proposes an election. Both Yama and Raja agree.

Yama, along with Chitragupta, tries to get the Yamapasam repeatedly and ultimately fails when Raja uses his trickery to implicate him in sexual harassment, leading to a protest against Yama to stop his alleged atrocities. Yama's wife gets frustrated with her husband's behaviour (which is not true) and she leaves his mansion. Chitragupta suggests to him that he must call the three celestial nymphs: Rambha, Urvashi, and Menaka, which he initially disagrees due to his wife's suspicion, but reluctantly agrees to defeat Raja in the election. Raja feels hopeless when Yama insults him and his late grandfather, Chitragupta tries to stop Yama and tries to tell him who Raja's grandfather actually is. Yama neglects Chitragupta's pleas and orders Raja's grandfather to appear in front of his grandson. Raja's grandfather appears in front of Raja and asks him why he's here, Raja answers that his time isn't good enough, so he's suddenly appeared here. Raja's grandfather motivates him and tells that he is blessed with the gift of dance, and he's the grandson of the man who made an alliance and won the elections with the support of the people. He tells Raja to dance, due to which all the people present in Yamaloka rejoice. Raja wins the elections; however, Yama angrily insults him. Raja decides to use the Yamapasam to make Yama a human; however, the plan backfires when Yama ends up with the Yamapasam and regains his powers. Raja flees back to Earth, challenging Yama. Raja soon finds out about the cruelty that Mahi has suffered since his death and decides to fight back against her cruel family. Raja steals a whip and thrashes her family with it, forcing them to become servants. Raja gets drunk and insults Yama again. This time, Yama decides that he and Chitragupta will enter Bhulokam to avenge his insult. Yama disguises himself as the beautiful Dhanalakshmi, and Chitragupta as her father.

Yama successfully manages to separate Raja and Mahi, whose love had prevented Yama from interfering. After Mahi's uncles call upon the goons that previously killed Raja, the chief hitman kidnaps Mahi for himself and hits Raja with his car. Raja is severely injured and falls off a cliff into the temple of Lord Narasimha in Simhachalam. Yama sends the Yamapasam after him to take his life, however, the divine power within the temple drives away the Yamapasam. Yama once again changes his form into Dhanalakshmi to lure Raja out, but Raja reveals that he knew it was Yama in disguise. Raja begs for only half an hour of life only to rescue Mahi and apologises to Yama for his sins and all he has said and done. Yama realises both of the errors caused him as well as his errors and becomes sympathetic but regretfully informs him and Narada that he cannot call back the Yamapasam. Raja fights off his enemies and is close to death, when suddenly, the chain that followed him his whole life was revealed to have been blessed by Lord Narasimha himself, and it saves Raja's life. Raja and Mahi decide to live together and get married. But Yama gets Raja in trouble when the original Dhanalakshmi appears, demanding her dues. Yama asks him whether he prefers Yamalokam or Bhulokam, at the same time Chitragupta and Yama's wife appear arguing with each other about whether Yama is having fun with other ladies or not, Chitragupta tells her that she misunderstood Yama because of Raja but she doesn't believe him. Raja uses his trickery over Yama again, this time he uses Dhanalakshmi's veil and ties it on the Yamapasam, implicating Yama as a lecher once again. Raja mockingly asks Yama whether he prefers Bhulokam or Yamalokam and cautions him to be safe from his wife.

Yamadonga is the third collaboration between S. S. Rajamouli and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. after Student No: 1 (2001) and Simhadri (2003). In an interview with Telugucinema.com, Rajamouli revealed that the basic plot — where the hero dies and goes to Yamalokam and comes back to Earth — is inspired by the films Devanthakudu (1960) and Yamagola (1977) which starred Jr NTR's grandfather Sr. N.T.R. Rajamouli mentioned that apart from the basic plot, Yamadonga has no similarities with earlier films.