Okariki Okaru

<p>Swapna is a (NRI) who, along with her grandfather, has arrived in India for a visit. Kameshwar “Kamesh” Rao Jr. is on a post-graduation pilgrimage to at the request of his grandmother. Kamesh sees Swapna at a railway station and falls in love with her. When introducing themselves they lie about their names, stating they are Rahul and Subba Lakshmi. Swapna and her grandfather quickly leave for their relatives’ place before Swapna can inform Rahul but she places a note in Rahul’s wallet before leaving. When Swapna goes to her relatives’ house, she learns her engagement is being arranged and is upset. Her father arrives for the engagement and stops it because the relatives have cheated Swapna’s family on business, which caused Swapna’s uncle (father’s brother) to succumb to . After a year, Kamesh is looking for love and decides to go to the United States. For this purpose, he gets a job as an engineer at a software company so he visit the US on a work permit. Kamesh goes to the US and is working under Deepak, who is Swapna’s cousin. Deepak wants to marry Swapna and she almost compromises by marrying Deepak. Kamesh meets Swapna. Cinematographer wanted to make his directorial debut; he met with producer ARS Prasad to this end. Sunil Reddy, who later directed (2013), made his debut as a cinematographer with this film. Tamil actor used the name Sriram as his stage name for to avoid confusion with established Telugu actor . Rasool Ellore narrated the script to Sriram on the sets of (2002). Sriram wore a clean-shaven look for the first time in his career. made her Telugu debut with . After appearing a grandmother character in (2002), played a similar character in . The scene in which Sriram declares his love to Chabria was filmed in a dense forest in . To the film crew’s surprise, the location was filled with snakes and leeches. Local villagers told the film crew to leave and some of them did so but Ellore was still able to film the scene with the help of locals. The climax scene of the film was shot in rain, and because the scene is serious, Ellore was not perturbed when the rain washed off Chabria’s makeup. composed the music and background score for . Ellore described the visuals of the songs before Keeravani composed for them. In a review of the soundtrack, a critic from wrote: “Keeravani has that artistic touch in composing music, really! Good attempt.” , and were chief guests at the audio release event, which was held on 1 September 2003 at the Taj Banjara. Keeravani reused the song “Nadiradinna” in (2005) as “Dheere Jalna”. Jeevi of praised several aspects of , including the music, screenplay, dialogues, direction and cinematography. Preetam Akkineni of called the film “clean good fun” and praised Keeravani’s music for having meaningful lyrics “while still being poetic”. was subsequently dubbed in Tamil as with a comedy track by added. A critic from wrote: “While the first part of the movie moves interestingly, the encounters between the lovers having a touch of humour, the second part is an overdose of melodrama, with scenes we’ve already seen”. was a box-office success but Sriram did not sign any Telugu films for five years till (2010) because he was interested in making an action film.</p>