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film released on 23 August 2002. It was directed by

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. The film stars

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, Rohith, Sunil,

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and

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has composed the score.

Plot

Vamsy (

), Nandu (

) and Bose (Rohit) are childhood friends. Vamsy and Nandu grew up very close. Bose falls in love with Sowmya, one of their college mates. When Bose tells Vamsy about her, he deems it to be one more love affair that is bound to fail. Vamsy feels that friendship is more valuable than love and that love spoils a friendship. Nandu, who wanted to share her love towards Vamsy on his birthday, goes back to the shelter as she feels Vamsy might get offended. Vamsy leaves for New Zealand to supervise the overseas operations of his father's company. In New Zealand, Vamsy realizes that he is in love with Nandu through a colleague at work, Maggy. When Vamsy returns to India, he finds out that Nandu is already engaged to Venkat ( Adivi Sesh). Just before her marriage, Nandu receives a bouquet from Maggy from New Zealand addressing both Vamsy and Nandu congratulating their marriage. Realizing that Vamsy loves her, Nandu runs after him to the airport and unites with him.

Cast

as Vamsi Krishna * Rohit as Bose * Sunil as Seshagiri "Sesham" *

as Nandini "Nandu" *

as Sowmya *

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as Asha *

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as Lecturer Venkatalakshmi *

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as Lecturer Bogeswara Rao * Chitram Seenu as Sesham's friend *

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as Sesham's friend *

Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam (20 September 1954 – 7 December 2013) was a popular Indian actor, comedian and film director who worked in Telugu cinema. He was established as one of the highly paid and top most leading comedians in Telugu film in ...

as Subbu * Adivi Sesh as Venkat, Nandu's fiancé *

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as Shyam Prasad, Vamsi father * Naresh as Nandu's father * Hema as Nandu's mother * Neelopher as Maggie *

Telangana Shakuntala Telangana Shakuntala (27 March 1951 – 14 June 2014) was an Indian actress who worked in the Telugu cinema. She was known chiefly for playing comedy and villainous characters in Tollywood. Her performances in movies like ''Osey Ramulamma'', ' ...

as Naga Bala, Sesham's mother *

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as Shambhu, Sesham's friend * Venu Madhav as Bujji, Sesham's friend *

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 Gulabi, a thief * Chinna as Jilani, Sesham's friend *

Rajitha Rajitha is an Indian actress who works in Telugu films. She has been active since the late 1980s. Career Rajitha made her debut in film industry at the age of 18 with the Telugu movie, ''Brahma Rudrulu'' in which she portrayed Akkineni Nage ...

* Brinda Parekh guest appearance in song "Akkado Ikkado"

Production

Aryan Rajesh shot for this film simultaneously with ''Hai'' which released a few months prior to this film.

Soundtrack

The Music was composed by

and released on

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Box office

The film recorded as a blockbuster, and got special applause for comedy scenes.

References

External links

2000s Telugu-language films 2002 films Films directed by Srinu Vaitla {{2000s-Telugu-film-stub Indian buddy comedy films 2002 romantic comedy-drama films Indian romantic comedy-drama films Films about friendship