For friendship) is a 1999 Indian Telugu-language drama film produced by A. M. Ratnam under the Sri Surya Movies banner.

Peddayya hates his elder daughter Gowri (Sitara) and her husband Peddabbayi (Prakash Raj).

Prabhavathy (Meena) is Peddayya's younger daughter and she arrives to the village after completing her education from the US.

At this time, Simhadri (also Chiranjeevi), Chinnayya's father is released from jail and comes to meet Peddayya.

Peddayya gets shocked knowing the truth and feels bad that he has misunderstood Chinnayya, believing his daughter's false words.

Chinnayya also hates his father Simhadri from childhood days as he was accused of killing Lakshmi.

On the day of marriage, Lakshmi gets to know about Peddabbayi's plans to rob Peddayya's properties and decides to cancel the wedding.

The story comes to the present and a wedding is planned between Prabhavathy and Peddabbayi's younger brother Chinababu (Ranjith), the third of the siblings.

A. M. Rathnam, who produced Natpukkaga requested Ravikumar to remake the film in Telugu with Chiranjeevi in the lead.

Though initially reluctant, he accepted to quickly remake the film in Telugu as Sneham Kosam.