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, and

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. The film is a remake of the Tamil film ''

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'' (2000). The film released on 18 July 2001 and was a semi-hit at the box office.

Plot

Shankar, an

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, is a soft spoken man. He befriends Nandini, a student of medicine and the both share a platonic relationship. Despite this, Shankar spends a lot of time as a loaner blowing his

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. Seershika, who works as an employee at a private firm, meets Shankar and starts liking him as a person as well as his taste in music. Shankar reciprocates her feelings, and they both fall in love with each other. As they decide to get marry, Shankar's parents who live in

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come to India as start the wedding arrangements. Meanwhile, Nandini takes an opportunity and confesses her love to Shankar.Shankar however never had any romantic feelings towards Nandini.Seershika poisons herself and gets hospitalized,and survives.However both Shankar and Seershika gets reunited in the end.

Cast

Production

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'' (2000) director R. R. Shinde titled this film ''Naa Manasistha Raa''. The film is produced by Sudhakar, who produced ''

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'' (1997). Shooting was scheduled to start on 18 January 2001 but was postponed to the second week of February of the same year. Srikanth and Soundarya shot for this film and '' Kalisi Naduddam'' (2001) at the same time.

Soundtrack

Songs are composed by

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, who reused all tunes from the original. *"Twinkle Twinkle" –

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*"Punnami Jabili" –

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, Sunitha *"Kadantava" – Rajesh, Sunitha *"Sakkubai" –

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*"Champodhe" –

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*"Ooh Prema" – Devan

Reception

Griddaluru Gopalrao of ''

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'' gave a positive review for the film. He appreciated the storyline, performances of the leads and camerawork of the film. Ajay Bashyam of ''Full Hyderabad'' opined that "Right from the name (ouch!), everything about ''Naa Manasista... Raa!'' is filmy. It's an old problem – the story starts off pretty okay and has enough steam to carry it till the interval, then there is the twist ..and then the writer keeps coming up with new problems just to pull along the film for the second half".

Box office

A writer from ''

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'' attributed the film's failure with the audience's rejection of Soundarya in a negative role.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 6925320 2000s Telugu-language films Telugu remakes of Tamil films