He then starts drinking with his friend and shares memories of his 1st love in the village with a girl where Hari was staying before his father was transferred to Vizag.

Shailu offers lift, but drops him in the middle as she thinks he is trying to woo her and even doesn't tell him her name when asked by Hari.

Next day in the hospital Hari encounters a young mute girl Pooja and politely asks about her name and school to which she responds by expressions.

In another incident, when the roads are blocked by goons in order to inaugurate a statue by the minister, Hari beats them up and gives way to a passing ambulance which again impresses Shailu who was also present there.

Hari devises a plan and fools Maharishi by making a woman who claims that she is his childhood lover Suchitra and Keerti is her daughter talk to him.

Things go as per plan until Maharishi arrives to attend the wedding thinking that Shailu and Hari are getting married.

Two days prior to the marriage, Shailu hugs Hari as she thinks she would lose him forever which is seen by the housemaid.

Now Maharshi tells everything to the family members about their love story upon which Hari and Maharishi are thrown out of the house by Amar.

On the marriage day, Srinivas takes Shailu to the railway station where she meets Hari and tells him that she loves him.

Pranita Jonnakagedda of The Times of India rated the film 3 stars out of five and wrote "Nenu.. Sailaja… doesn’t really offer anything new.

While praising Ram for his performance, she added that "the credit would majorly go to director Kishore Tirumala who not only visualized him in this character but also managed to draw the best from him.

"[6] The Hindu's Sangeetha Devi wrote that "though the film isn’t telling us a radically new story, we give in and soak in the milieu created by Kishore."

Devi also stated that "the plot focuses so much on the complex father-daughter bond that one never gets an idea of how the son responded to the father.

"[7] Madhavi Tata writing for the Outlook stated that the film is a "combo of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Dil Chahta Hai.