Released on 9 May 2002, the film was well received by critics and was declared a Blockbuster at the box office.

It was dubbed in Tamil as Santhosha Vanille and in Hindi as Pehli Nazar ka Pehla Pyaar.

Padhu is hesitant to accept and reciprocate Karthik's love, as she doesn't know what kind of a person he is.

When Padhu reveals her love, her father Ramachandrayya enraged, resists and asks her to marry the guy he has chosen for her.

Motivated by Bhanu's words, Padhu leaves a letter to her parents and elopes to marry Karthik.

Karthik and Padmavathi get married and migrate to New Zealand, and later give birth to a kid named Lucky.

A few of the family members opine that inviting Karthik and his kid for a marriage to happen at their place would allow getting a closer look at Lucky.

When Karthik visits Ramachandrayya's place he gets mixed responses from different people in the house.

A critic from Sify wrote that "Debutant director Dasarath has done a fairly decent job, and the music of R.P.Patnaik has good hummable melodies".

[6] Andhra Today wrote "Though the story has an old formula the director gives a feel-good treatment for the entire movie with a good mix of entertainment and fun.The director showed lot of confidence in deftly handling various situations in the movie".