Banner: Geeta Arts
Direction: Sukumar
Production: Bunny Vasu
Music: DeviSri Prasad
Direction: Sukumar
Production: Bunny Vasu
Music: DeviSri Prasad
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Tamanna, Naresh, K R Vijaya, Vijaykumar, Dharmavarapu Subramaniam, M S Narayana, 'Thabubothu' Ramesh and others
Released on: 6th May, 2011
Balu Mahendra (Naga Chaitanya) is a studious chap who tops the state in Xth and inter. His uncle's daughter Mahalakshmi (Tamannah) from Telugu medium education, comes to the city to study in the same college as that of Balu. However, he behaves like a genius and has an attitude of being the first ranker. Mahalakshmi fails in an exam and dejected, wants to go back home. Balu gives her his books and clears her doubts. She surprisingly replaces Balu as the first ranker in the college in the next exam. This gets him jealous and he wants to reclaim his first postition in the class. He steals her books, disturbs her, takes tutions et al to win his numero uno position in college. But in the next test, another chap Ajit Jogi wins the first position defeating both Balu and Mahalakshmi. Balu can't stand Mahalakshmi appreciating Ajit. They both compromise and plot to divert Ajit's attention to win first place.Their plan succeeds and Balu bags first place by getting 2 percent more marks than Ajit. Mahalakshmi again appreciates Ajit for losing out with a mere 2 percent margin despite their combined efforts. This angers Balu.He abuses her and asks her to get out of his house. Both of them are seperated. However, their grandmother (K R Vijaya) and Balu's father(Naresh) want both of them to get engaged. With this seperation, their plans fail. The rest of the story revolves around circumstances that make Balu and Mahalakshmi shed their egos and bring them together.