Anandam

Happiness) is a 2001 Indian Telugu-language romance film, directed by Srinu Vaitla and starring Akash and Rekha in the lead roles.

[3][4] Kiran (Akash) and Aishwarya (Rekha) are neighbours since childhood and always fight with each other on trivial things.

But she finds out that Deepika committed suicide unwilling to marry the person chosen by her parents and as her plans of elopement failed as her boyfriend did not come to rescue her.

[10] Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu noted, "Dialogues prove to be the basic strength of the film, particularly during the humorous scenes.

Akash and Rekha make a good pair and their performances suit the characters they play".

[11] E. M. Bhargava of Full Hyderabad opined, "credit should be given to the director for treating the story with a lot of care (pardoning him a few unnecessary scenes) and for creating the feel good factor.

[12] In 2013, Jai Akash announced that he was working towards directing a sequel to the film titled Anandam Aarambam and had cast a completely new team from the original; however it was shelved.