

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
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.