Santosh is a rich city boy born to millionaire parents Janaki and Prakash and brought up in London. On the other hand, Siri is a traditional, simple, rural girl from Andhra Pradesh who is brought up by her only brother Sivaramakrishna. He is heartbroken when their father marries another woman and throws them out of the house, humiliating them on the way. Their mother dies, and her tomb is built on the small land which they, own until the Zamindar Narasimha tells them that it is his land, since their mother had taken a loan from the man. Sivaramakrishna volunteers to work day and night to pay off the loan, as long as they don't tear down his mother's tomb. Narasimha agrees, and the local station master helps them. Slowly, Sivaramakrishna and Siri grow up. One day, Lalitha, Siri's best friend and Santosh's cousin, comes to their house to invite Siri to their house as she is getting married. Santosh also arrives on the same day with his parents. Slowly, Santosh and Siri fall in love, but Janaki does not bear it as Siri is not as rich as them, and is thus not to their standards. Santosh is also to be married to Janaki's younger brother Srinivasa Rao's business partner's daughter Dolly. Janaki humiliates Siri as well as Sivaramakrishna, who arrives a minute before, and both are thrown of the house after Janaki accuses them of trying to entice and trap Santosh. When Santosh learns of this, he goes to Siri's house and pleads to her brother to accept him. Sivaramakrishna gives him a chance, just like he was given a chance by Narasimha when he was little. Santosh is tasked to take care of the cows, clean up after them, and grow more crops than Sivaramakrishna by the end of the season; if he does not, Santosh will be thrown out of the village and can never see Siri again. Narasimha and his son are not happy as Narasimha's son wanted to marry Siri. With them, Dolly, and her father trying to get Santosh to lose the competition, Santosh has to work hard for his love, eating red chillies and rice everyday, even though he can't bear it. Through many antics from Narasimha's and Dolly's side, Santosh eventually proves his love for Siri to Sivaramakrishna, and succeeds in growing more grains. However, Narasimha and his son kidnap Siri and then try to rape her. A fight takes place in which Santosh kills Narasimha's son while Sivaramakrishna violently defeats Santosh's uncle's business partner and Narasimha. After realizing that Santosh and Siri should be together, Sivaramakrishna takes the blame for this murder and spends five years in prison. The movie ends with Sivaramakrishna's release from prison, which is also when Siri and Santosh get married, in everyone's presence. Janaki then accepts Siri to be her daughter-in-law ends story
Cast
Siddharth as Santosh, Janaki and Prakash's son
Trisha as Siri
Srihari as Sivarama Krishna, Siri's brother
Geetha as Janaki Prakash, Santosh's mother
Prakash Raj as Prakash, Santosh's father
Veda Sastry as Lalitha, Siri's best friend and Santosh's cousin
Sunil as Banda
Tanikella Bharani as Kantepudi Srinivasa Rao
Nanditha as Dolly
Jaya Prakash Reddy as JP, Srinivasa Rao's business partner and Dolly's father
Prabhu Deva as the bullock cart driver in the song "Paripoke Pitta"
M. S. Raju in a special appearance
Soundtrack
The soundtrack features eight songs composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The soundtrack featured a remixed version of the song "Prema Kosamai Volalo" sung by Ghantasala for the 1951 filmPathala Bhairavi. This version was sung by Jr. Ghantasala. All lyrics were penned by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry.
Release
The film was released with 90 prints on 14 January 2005; more prints were added later to meet the public demand. It was one of the biggest hit of 2005 in Telugu cinema. The film ran for 50 days in 79 centres and 100 days in 35 centres, becoming a huge boxoffice hit.
Remakes
This film was highly successful and was remade in 8 languages. This is the highest number for an Indian movie to be remade in other languages.
