Sri Krishna (Siddharth) is delivery boy and son of theatre projectionist. He meets Satya in a village carnival and falls in love with her at first sight. But Satya escapes from Vicky (Munna) who wants to marry forcibly. Vicky is a baddie and son of rich politicians so police and goons will be searching for Satya. In this process Sri Krishna helps but at the end brings Satya to Vicky and wins his confidence. The rest of the story is how Sri Krishna wins the heart of Satya and what happens to Vicky.
Trade
Aata turned out to be an average due to low box office earnings but openings of the movie were huge as it was Siddharth straight Telugu film after ‘Bommarillu’.
Highlights
This is Siddharth and Ileana’s first combination.
Yesteryear's vamp Anuradha played Jaya Prakash's wife.
Pop singer Smitha performed in a song.
Producer MS Raju gave guest appearance in a song.
Devi Sri Prasad’s straight 4th movie with M.S. Raju.
Siddharth crooned a song in this film.
Sidelights
Producer MS Raju was supposed to do a film with Venkatesh with same title.
The movie was dubbed into Tamil as Gillida.
The film’s plot closely follows the plot of the Pawan Kalyan's film ‘Gudumba Shankar’.