

Vikram begins to fall in love with Sithara. She lets them go, but later punishes them when she finds out they were consuming alcohol in the class. They apprehend a Marathi- Tamil lecturer, Sithara ( Shruti Hassan), assuming her to be a student. After getting suspended for 2 months after beating their rival group led by Arjun (Noel Sean), they re-enter the college only to start ragging on the very first day. In the second phase of his life, circa 2005, Vicky is a thug student in college, who goes around making trouble with his friends, Vasu ( Praveen) and Siva ( Chaitanya Krishna). Despite his friends and family trying to tell him that she is merely using him to achieve what she wanted, Vicky open-heartedly helps Suma whenever she needs help, showing his love for her. However, he is shocked when he learns that she is already in love with another man, and only wanted help from Vicky to be able to communicate with her lover. Suma soon starts getting closer to Vicky, even coming to visit him at his home. He later gives the letter to his neighbour, a young girl, who is seen to be continuously hanging around Suma, to give it to her. After a desperate attempt to write a love letter, Vikram is unable to give it to Suma due to her strict militarian father ( Prudhviraj). The film opens in the year 2000, where Vikram ( Naga Chaitanya), is shown to be a shy and modest young man who loves Suma ( Anupama Parameswaran) who, unfortunately for Vicky, is loved by all the boys in the area. The film was one of the highest grossing Telugu films of the year 2016. The film was released on 7 October 2016, coinciding with the Dasara festival weekend and received generally positive response from critics as well as audience. The film's soundtrack was composed by Rajesh Murugesan and Gopi Sundar, with former retaining four songs from the original, whereas the latter also composing the score. The film's cinematography was handled by Karthik Ghattamaneni and the editing was done by Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao. The college portion, which became a crucial part of the original, was shot in Andhra University in Vizag, whereas two songs were shot at Norway.

Principal photography commenced in September 2015, and ended within June 2016. The plot shows Vikram and his friends' life from teenage to adulthood.

Venkatesh and Nagarjuna appear in guest roles. It is a remake of the 2015 Malayalam film of the same name, and features Naga Chaitanya and Shruti Haasan, portraying the respective roles played by Nivin Pauly and Sai Pallavi in the original, whilst Madonna Sebastian and Anupama Parameswaran reprise their roles from the original. Love) is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language coming-of-age romantic drama film co-written and directed by Chandoo Mondeti.
