Anandam

<p>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 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. 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. The soundtrack is composed by . The soundtrack of the movie is released through Mayuri Audio. The songs were well received. Gudipoodi Srihari of noted, “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 opined, “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”. In 2013, Jai Akash announced that he was working towards directing a sequel to the film titled and had cast a completely new team from the original; however it was shelved.</p>