Synopsis
The first scene of the film shows Arya(Allu Arjun) being carried into an operation theatre. His friend Ajay(Navdeep) narrates how Arya changed his life.In their childhood, Arya stays in an orphanage where has no friends or family. By force, he befriends Ajay who also is in that orphanage. One day, Ajay is adopted by a rich family and therefore he leaves the orphanage behind him.As time passes, he becomes a big shot business tycoon and has his own software company.One day, Arya returns and by force, he joins in Ajay's company only to stay close to him.But Ajay has one condition that if Arya is proven as a "bad boy" in the office, he has to leave the company.Thus, Arya transforms himself into a " Mr.Perfect " without any defect and joins in the company.Everyone in the company are fond of Arya especially Shanti(Shraddha Das)who is madly in love with him.One day Geetha(Kajal Aggarwal)joins the company and Ajay and Arya both immediately fall in her love.Arya is now Geetha's Team Lead.In a lift one day, while Geetha converses with Arya, suddenly he kisses her. In many other instances also, Arya keeps confessing his love to Geetha without anyone knowing about it. Ajay now wants to get rid of Arya. So, he crashes his(Ajay's)car and weaves a story that Arya has crashed him. He did so, so that everyone would accuse Arya and he would be fired.At this juncture, Geetha comes to know that Ajay too loves her.The next day at the office, Arya shows his true colours and arranges Ajay and Geetha's wedding.But on the day of their wedding, Geetha is taken away by her family to her hometown.Arya decides to bring her back at any cost.He is introduced to her family and he stays at her house amid the preparations for the wedding.Due to some reasons, caused by Arya the wedding is stopped and Arya is asked to marry Geetha.After their marriage,Ajay arrives to their town and the trio decide to go away from the place before they could find out that Geetha does not love Arya.The three of them stay at a hotel and decide that they must forget all of their worries for Geetha and Ajay would be gone and Arya left alone.But, Geetha's father finds them and while attempting to stab Ajay, Arya rescues him.But he is stabbed instead.Arya is rushed to hospital where it is seen that Geetha is truly in love with Arya.At the end, Arya asks Ajay to press a button. Unknowingly, Ajay does so.Suddenly, Arya starts suffocating for the supply of Oxygen is stopped.Geetha slaps Ajay for doing so and Arya says sorry when she goes and holds his hand and Ajay just laughs and walks out. So Arya gets the girl in the end as Arya the first movie. There are talks about Arya 3
Controversy
On December 16, 2009, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) activists caused problems to theaters and multiplexes screening the film in the Nizam district.[2] TRS activists were angry about Arjun's uncle actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi about attacking Telangana and supportingSamaikya Andhra - United Andhra Pradesh. In retaliation, TRS supporters have decided to ban not only Chiranjeevi's films, but also his sonRam Charan Teja's films and nephew Arjun's films.[3]
Box Office and Reception
Though the film had good openings, the reaction was mixed and didn't fare as expected. The film collected 16+ crores a in its first week including 4+ crores from Nizam and 1 crore from Visakhapatnam district[4]. But there was a huge drop in the collections in the second week because of the Telangana Agitation. The film was banned in all Telangana regions because of Allu Arjun's relation with Chiranjeevi. Dil Raju, the distributor of Nizam has lost about one and a half crores due to the Telangana Agitation. Arya 2 has been declared as a average grosser worldwide. The movie has been dubbed into Malayalam with the same title, and released across Kerala with 100 prints. The film is running successfully in all centers in Kerala. It made great openings in Kerala and collected more than a crore in First week in Kerala.
The film collected 30+ crores in total