Arya (Telugu film)

Arya
Directed by	Sukumar
Produced by	Dil Raju
Written by	Sukumar
Starring	Allu Arjun Anu Mehta Siva Balaji Subbaraju Santosh
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography	R. Rathnavelu
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Production company	Sri Venkateswara Creations
Distributed by	Sri Venkateswara Creations
Release date	7 May 2004 (2004-05-07)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹4 crore (US$620,000)
Box office	₹18 crore (US$2.8 million)(Share)

Arya is a Telugu action romantic comedy film which was released on 7 May 2004. The film was directed by debutant Sukumar with Allu Arjun in the main lead. Upon release, the film was declared a Blockbuster. It was remade into Oriya as Pagala Premi with Sabyasachi Mishra and Arpita Pal, in Tamil as Kutty and Bengali (Bangladesh) as Badha. The film was dubbed in Malayalam under the same title and in Hindi as Arya Ki Prem Pratigya. An unrelated sequel titled Arya 2 was released in 2009.

Geetanjali a.k.a. Geeta (Anuradha Mehta) goes to Kanyakumari on a trip. She finds a poem in a diary left on a beach and signs in it. Her anklet falls into the ocean and a guy jumps into the water in front of her eyes but no one sees him resurfacing. However, Geeta did not see who jumped in the ocean. She dreams about the incident frequently with the idea that the guy who jumped has died but her friends ask her to forget it.

Ajay (Siva Balaji) is a spoiled brat, and is the son of local MP Avataram (Rajan P. Dev). He likes to flirt with beautiful girls and wants them to be his girlfriends. One day he sees Geeta and proposes to her. When she refuses, he threatens to jump from the top of college building. Being a weak-minded girl, Geeta accepts the proposal with the thought that as some guy has already died for her and she doesn't want someone to get hurt because of her and starts dating him. Arya (Allu Arjun) is a happy-go-lucky guy who enjoys his life with friends and kids. On his first day to the college, he sees Geeta who was just confessing her love to Ajay who was at the top of the college building, threatening her. Charmed by her beauty, Arya falls in love with her and proposes to her. She actually rejects his proposal saying that she is already committed to Ajay. One day Avataram arranges a party in his house and it so turns out that Ajay introduces Geeta to his father and persuades him to fix their marriage. Ajay's father, who initially pretended to accept his son's marriage with Geeta, turns tables upside down by introducing another girl Lalasa and announces that his son is going to marry Lalasa. He threatens his son not to marry anyone except Lalasa. Being embarrassed by the situation and helpless, Ajay sits down and starts to get frustrated. Arya, who loves Geeta so much that he never hesitated to help her, decides to bring Ajay to Geeta and helps them elope. On their way, they are followed by Avataram's henchmen. The three youngsters find a train and get into it.