Nenu Sailaja

Plot

The film starts with Hari (Ram Pothineni) sitting in the beach thinking about love and its consequences. It is revealed that Hari used to propose every girl he came across but gets turned down every time since childhood. He has grown up and is now a DJ, who lives with his father, mother and fraternal twin sister Priya (Sreemukhi) and still tries to woo any girl he comes across but still fails every time.

To overcome this depression, he sits with his best friend in the beach and the see a couple which infuriates Hari as he seems there is no connection between the two in appearance. He then starts drinking with his friend and says that there is no chance of love in his life and shares his 1st love in the village with a girl where Hari was staying before his father got transferred to Vizag. Hari, in inebriated condition is about to fall in the sea, is saved by Shailu (Keerthy Suresh). Hari asks her to drop him at home as he has no money or vehicle to get home. 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. He then tells his friend that if god exists, he will never meet her again.

Next day in the hospital Hari encounters a young dumb girl Pooja and very politely asks about her name and school to which she responds by expressions. Shailu, also present in the hospital, gets impressed by Hari's behaviour and notes down his phone number when Hari gives Pooja his number by finger 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 agains impresses Shailu who was also present there. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Shailu was the girl with whom Hari 1st fell in love.

Meanwhile, a local rowdy Maharishi (Pradeep Rawat) goes to Shailu's office and threatens Kirti (Dhanya Balakrishna) who is Shailu's friend and tells her to forget her boyfriend as he is marrying someone else. Shailu then calls Hari and asks for his help. They meet and there Hari reveals his name to Shailu and Kirti. Hari devises a plan and fools Maharishi by talking him to a woman who claims that she is her childhood lover Suchitra and Kirti is her daughter. This results in Kirti's marriage with her lover. When she tries to hug Hari, she is stopped by Shailu who is jealous of her hugs as Kirti hugged him twice before. Kirti then asks Hari to make Shailu fall in love with him.

Hari, now fallen in love and Shailu spend time with each other. One day he drops her from office to home when she reveals that she has to go to Goa the very next day for an ad shoot. Hari drops her to airport by car where Shailu asks him to come to Goa along with him to which he agrees. During the ad shoot Hari recognizes that Shailu is the girl that he had fallen in love in his childhood. They spend good time together in Goa where Shailu tells him that the boy who lived near her house used to make her smile and today Hari is making her smile without knowing that it was Hari.

After they come back to Hyderabad, Hari takes Shailu to her home and introduces her to his family members during which she comes to know that Hari was the boy who made her happy during her childhood by seeing the childhood photos of Hari in his home. She then gets a call from her mother to return to the village as soon as possible. Hari fails to contact Shailu for a few days. So he sits in beach thinking about her which is the starting part of the story. Mahrishi arrives there and asks him about Shailu. Shailu arrives and Hari tells her about his feelings to which she replies that " Hari, I love you but I am not in love with you" which has totally confused Hari. Meanwhile, goons come to kidnap Shailu as her father refused to sell a part of his land. Hari thrashes them and asks Shailu about her problem. She then leaves.

After a few days Hari joins a meditation centre to relive the thoughts of Shailu. He then sees her sister Priya with her boyfriend at a bar one night. At home when Hari complains about the relationship,it is revealed that her boyfriend is Ashok who is Shailu's brother. It is also revealed that Shailu's aunt had asked he hand for her son Amar's marriage from her father Srinivas Rao (Sathyaraj). Hari, now understood the situation meets Ashok and tells him that he has to know is family first in order to get them married. To Shailu's susprise he meets her family as Ashok's friend. Ashok comes to know from a phone call from Maharishi that Hari has actually come for Shailu. He gets well with the family members and then uses this opportunity to get the family members close to each other as the had no proper bonding in between due to some misunderstanding when Shailu was born. He makes Shailu's grandfather (Vijayakumar) reunited with his son Srinivas and realises Shailu of her mistake, which was that her father is not a good father. Things go as per plan until Maharishi arrives to attend the wedding thinking that Shailu and Hari are getting married. He is about to spoil everything when Hari saves everything in time. Shailu then asks Hari to leave the place as soon as possible as it would cause no benefit to him. 2 days prior to the marriage, Shailu hugs Hari as she thinks she would lose him forever which is seen by the house maid. She then tells Shailu's mother that she thinks Shailu is not happy with the marriage, upon asking Shailu to which she agrees. The next day while her mother shares this experience to the family, Srinivas Rao gets a call that Shailu has been kidnapped. He orders Hari to get her back to which he succeeds. 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. Shailu then tells her father that she loved Hari and no one can understand her better than him and said that she cannot live without him. On the marriage day, Srinivas takes Shailu to the railway station where she meets Hari and tells him that she loves him. Hari reveals that he would not let happen the marriage at any cost, so he had waited. Meanwhile, Srinivas Rao gets a call from her sister that Amar is missing who is actually kidnapped by Maharishi. Thus Hari and Shailu get reunited.

The film ends with Shailu, now married with hari getting up in the bed having night full of hot romance

Cast

Music

Devi Sri Prasad scored the soundtrack, which was released on 21 December 2015. Karthik Srinivasan of Milliblog stated that "Nenu Sailaja is better than the average Devi Sri Prasad soundtrack". Furthermore, 123telugu.com and iqlikmovies.com, premier Telugu movie news websites, stated that Nenu Sailaja was a "feel-good album" and a "perfect balance of trendiness and classicism in a single awesome package!" respectively.