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movie produced by ''

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(

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and Raj Kumar. It starred Charan Dodla, Shriya,

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and Chandra Mohan. This is the debut movie of actress Shriya. Charan paired up with Saran for the first time. This was Charan's only film as an actor as he didn't act in any other film after this.

Plot

Karthik (Charan), hailing from a rich family, is quite inept in his academics. Neha (

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) is Subbu's ( Chandra Mohan) daughter and she's motherless. Karthik is the senior of Neha in the college and rags her quite a bit. When Karthik's mother Lakshmi (

) meets with an accident, Neha rescues and admits her in a hospital. Over time, Lakshmi and Neha become friends and Neha falls in love with Karthik. But when Subbu proposes to get Karthik and Neha married, Lakshmi refuses. The film is about why Lakshmi doesn't accept the marriage, who initially wanted Neha to marry Karthik.

Cast

* Charan Dodla as Karthik *

as Neha * Chandra Mohan as Subrahmanyam "Subbu", Neha's father *

as Lakshmi, Karthik's mother *

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as Chakravarthy, Karthik's father *

Jayasudha Jayasudha Kapoor (born Sujatha Nidudavolu) is an Indian actress and politician known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema. She has also worked in few Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films. Known as natural actress, she received fiv ...

as Neha's mother *

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as Ravi, Karthik's friend *

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as Raghu, Karthik's friend * Naveen as Gopi * Sravan as Sravan

Soundtrack

The music was composed by DJ Gopinath and released by Mayuri Audio.

References

External links

* 2000s Telugu-language films 2001 films Films directed by Vikram Kumar {{2000s-Telugu-film-stub