A politician refrains his daughter from finishing college as it would affect his politics. He decides to get her married to a police officer of the same caste, but things don't go as planned.
Acting
Genelia's livewire energy vs. Allu Arjun's smolder — chemistry that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Direction
Karunakaran's glossy maximalism turns arranged marriage drama into candy-colored spectacle.
Writing
Brahmanandam's Appala Naidu — peak comic relief that nearly steals the film.
Director
A. Karunakaran
Allu Arjun
Bunny
Genelia D'Souza
Madhumati
Manoj Bajpayee
DCP Aravind Bhasker IPS
Brahmanandam
Appala Naidu
Kishore
ACP Ratna Naidu IPS
Deepak Shirke
MLA Suryanarayana
Rama Prabha
Madhumati's Grandmother
Suman Shetty
Bunny's Friend
Tanikella Bharani
Subba Rao
Seetha
Madhumati's mother
M. S. Narayana
Ticket collector
Master Bharath
Bunny's neighbor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Allu Arjun's first full-fledged romantic lead after establishing himself as a dancer-action star; Genelia was already the queen of Telugu feel-good cinema.
The 'police officer groom' trope here reflects real 2000s Andhra Pradesh politics, where IPS marriages were status symbols for political families — the film both mocks and ultimately validates this.
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