Naa Manasistha Raa

<p>Shankar, an , 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 . 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 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 hospitalised, and survives. However both Shankar and Seershika get reunited in the end. After the success of films ending with , (2000) director R. R. Shinde titled this film before was appended to the beginning. The film is produced by Sudhakar, who produced (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 (2001) at the same time. Songs are composed by , who reused all tunes from the original. Griddaluru Gopalrao of gave a positive review for the film. He appreciated the storyline, performances of the leads and camerawork of the film. Ajay Bashyam of wrote, “Right from the name (ouch!), everything about 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”. A writer from attributed the film’s failure with the audience’s rejection of Soundarya in a negative role.</p>