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-language

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, directed by

Srinu Vaitla Srinu Vaitla (born 24 September 1972) is an Indian film director who works in Telugu cinema. Known for his best film works in the action comedy genre, Vaitla made his directional debut with ''Nee Kosam'' (1999) starring Ravi Teja and Maheswari. ...

and starring

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and

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in the lead roles. The music of the film was composed by

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. The film was sensational hit at box office and ran for 200 days in two centers, 175 days in two centers and 100 days in all major centers.It was a commercial and critical success of the time. This film made Akash an overnight star of the Telugu film industry. The film was remade in Tamil as ''

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'' and Kannada as ''Anand'', both versions being produced by

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Plot

Kiran (

) and Aishwarya (

) are neighbours since childhood and always fight with each other on trivial things. Kiran hates her so much that he feels relieved when she moves to Ooty along with her parents. There, Aishwarya comes across an unopened greeting card addressed to Deepika (Tanu Roy). She learns that Deepika's family were the previous tenants in that home and tries to find out the whereabouts of Deepika to hand over the greeting card. But she finds out that Deepika committed suicide unwilling to marry the person chosen by her parents and as her plans of elopement failed as her boyfriend did not come to rescue her. Aishwarya feels bad for Deepika and tries to leave the matter, but couldn't when she finds letters written by Vamsi, Deepika's boyfriend. She reads them and gets moved by the emotion in it. She decides to break the information of Deepika's suicide to Vamsi, but first, she writes a letter to him as Deepika to prepare him for the bad news. On the other hand, Vamsi was no more as he dies in an accident while coming to Deepika to marry her. Incidentally, Kiran was Vamsi's friend and receives the letter written by Aishwarya. He too wants to prepare Deepika slowly for bad news and write her back as Vamsi. They continue exchanging letters for some more time and at last decide to break the news and arrange a meeting. When they see each other instead of Deepika and Vamsi, they get shocked and slowly reveal the truth to each other. They both get impressed with each other for the sympathetic and competent handling of the sensitive matter. They move back to their places but start to having feelings for each other. Slowly they express their emotions and become one.

Cast

as Kiran *

as Aishwarya * Venkat as Vamsi *

Tanu Roy Tanu Roy is an Indian actress and model. A Bengali by birth, she has predominantly appeared in Telugu films apart from some Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali and Kannada films. She is mostly known for her item numbers in films like ''Mass'' and ''Hero' ...

as Deepika * Chandra Mohan as Aishwarya's father *

Tanikella Bharani Tanikella Bharani (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, poet, playwright and director who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He has worked as an actor in more than 750 films, including some in Tamil and Hindi; while he was ...

as Kiran's father *

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as College Lecturer *

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as House Owner * Chitram Seenu as Chandu *

Shiva Reddy Siva Reddy is an Indian mimicry artist, comedian and actor. He has worked in over 100 films in Telugu. He is popular for his imitation of popular Telugu film actors. TV shows * Gemini TV - Jalsa (As an Anchor) * Zee Telugu - Chittam chittam P ...

as Purse * Ramachandra as Kiran's friend * Sudha as Aishwarya's mother * Delhi Rajeswari as Kiran's mother *

M S Narayana M. S. Narayana (16 April 1951–23 January 2015) was an Indian actor and comedian who worked in Telugu cinema. He died on 23 January 2015 due to organ failure in Hyderabad, India. Career Narayana has over 750 films to his credit. His debut film ...

as House Owner *

Jaya Prakash Reddy Jaya Prakash Reddy (8 May 1946 – 8 September 2020) was an Indian actor who predominantly appeared in Telugu films. Born in Sirvel of Andhra Pradesh, he came into the limelight with the film ''Samarasimha Reddy'' (1999) where he played the ro ...

as Police Officer *

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as Deepika's father *

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as College lecturer *

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as House Owner *

Nutan Prasad Tadinada Varaprasad popularly known as Nutan Prasad (12 December 1945 – 30 March 2011) was an Indian actor who predominantly worked in Telugu cinema and Telugu theatre. He was a native of Kaikaluru, Andhra Pradesh, India. He started his film ...

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in a special appearance in the song "Mona Lisa"

Production

Uday Kiran and Shriya Saran were initially considered for the lead roles. Newcomer Akash was cast as the lead despite not knowing Telugu at the time. He wrote down his dialogues in Tamil and English. Rekha Vedavyas made her Telugu debut with this film. Jayaprakash Reddy turned comedian with this film.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack is composed by

. The soundtrack of the movie is released through Mayuri Audio. The songs were well received.

Release

Jeevi of ''Idlebrain'' gave the film a rating of three out of five stars and opined that "Over all, this film is a good experiment, which did not worked well if you take the totality of the film". Gudipoodi Srihari of ''The Hindu'' opined that "Dialogues prove to be the basic strength of the film, particularly during the humorous scenes. Akash and Rekha make a good pair and their performances suit the characters they play". E. M. Bhargava of ''Full Hyderabad'' opined that "credit should be given to the director for treating the story with a lot of care (pardoning him a few unnecessary scenes) and for creating the feel good factor. The film certainly becomes worth a watch".

Sequel

directed a Tamil-language sequel to the film titled ''Anandam Arrambam'' in 2013. The film remains unreleased.

References

External links

* {{Srinu Vaitla 2001 films 2000s Telugu-language films 2000s buddy films 2000s romance films Films directed by Srinu Vaitla Indian buddy films Indian romance films Telugu films remade in other languages Films shot in Visakhapatnam