Venkat (Prabhas) is an unemployed youth. He falls flat for Shailaja (Trisha) on a rain drenched journey and later she too. Bhadranna (Gopichand) is a notorious goon in the area. Ranga Rao (Prakash), Sailu’s father is a crooked man with full of vices. He ploys to get her married to Bhadranna for money. He plants ego problems between the couple and separates them. Rest of the story is how they unite.
There was very little buzz about the movie during production. The hype built up with the first look posters of the movie in which Trisha was shown damn gorgeous. Later on the audio scored by Devi Sri Prasad was a thumping hit and the movie went on to become a blockbuster.
The film was remade in Tamil in the name Mazhai starring Jayam Ravi and Shriya Saran. It was dubbed in Hindi as Baarish.
The movie released during Sankranthi season along with biggies like Chiranjeevi’s Anji and Balakrishna’s Lakshmi Narasimha. But it went on to become a bigger hit than those movies.