A brave man decides to kidnap his friend's beloved from a forced marriage, but ends up abducting the wrong bride. Ironically, the bride he kidnapped is ecstatic because she was already planning an escape. On the run, they fall in love, but in order to get married, they must convince their families.
Acting
Genelia's manic energy carries entire sequences
Writing
Brahmanandam bits that somehow land every time
Direction
Sreenu Vaitla's formula firing on all cylinders
Director
Sreenu Vaitla
Ram Pothineni
Chandu
Genelia D'Souza
Pooja
Brahmanandam
Brahmi
Tanikella Bharani
Raghava /"Dallas" Nageswara Rao
Sunil Varma
Janaki and Chandu's Cousin
Chandramohan
Swarajyam's Husband
Nassar
Raghupathi / "Chicago" Subba Rao
Kota Srinivasa Rao
Peddi Naidu
Jayaprakash Reddy
Chitti Naidu
M. S. Narayana
Chinna Sastry
Srinivasa Reddy
Raju Garu
Navdeep
Swapna's Boyfriend (Guest Appearance)
Dharmavarupu Subramanyam
Santosh Reddy
Tamannaah Bhatia
Swapna (Guest Appearance)
Shafi
Nagappa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ready was Ram Pothineni's first collaboration with Sreenu Vaitla, cementing a partnership that would define early 2010s Telugu commercial cinema. The film's 'kidnapping gone right' premise was later recycled in multiple languages.
This arrived at peak 'Genelia mania' post-Bommarillu, where her expressive face became a genre unto itself—Telugu audiences would accept literally any premise if she was reacting to it.
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