Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali () is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Mohana Krishna Indraganti and produced by Benchmark Studios and Mythri Movie Makers. The film stars Sudheer Babu and Krithi Shetty. It was released on 16 September 2022 to mixed reviews and was a box office bomb.
Plot
Naveen is a very commercial film director in Telugu cinema who has just scored his 6th back-to-back hit and is looking to make another film. After coming back from his producer Fancy Parameshwar's house a garbage truck dumps a bunch of trash onto his car. Naveen then finds an old container that has a film reel and decides to check. In the reel, Naveen finds scenes of a girl enacting and is mesmerized by it. He decides to find out who she is and learns that she is an eye doctor named Alekhya. Naveen decides to talk with Alekhya to get her to be a part of his film, but she starts to grow hatred towards him, as her family has a deep hatred for cinema people. One day, at an event for Alekhya's hospital, Naveen is invited as the chief guest and gives Alekhya a present. After the event, one of the couples present at the event tell Naveen how much his films had positively impacted their deceased son.
Alekhya is moved by the story and decides to open Naveen's gift. After reading what was inside the gift, Alekhya decides to visit Naveen at his house. Naveen then shows Alekhya the reel he found and she reveals that the person in the reel is not her, but is her deceased identical twin sister Akhila. Alekhya tells Naveen that Akhila was passionate about acting ever since she was a child, but their parents were against it as it would hurt their reputation in society, especially after Akhila's performance in a Romeo and Juliet play. Akhila started to act in a film directed by her friend Deepak. However during filming, Akhila's father pulled her out of the film and an enraged Akhila decided to leave the house. Akhila and Deepak later got married without her parents knowing and they disown her. Later, Deepak's producer and their family die in a car accident causing the film to be stalled completely, which makes Deepak to fall into depression. Due to the depression, Deepak committed suicide leaving Akhila distraught. Not being able to take this, Akhila also committed suicide by jumping off of her apartment building. Her family completely shuns cinema from there onwards.
Touched by Akhila's story, Naveen decides to write a story based on Akhila and Deepak's life and he pitches this idea to Venkat, who approves. Naveen visits Alekhya and tells her on how he wants Alekhya to play Akhila's character in his film. Alekhya is reluctant, but Naveen tells her his story about how as a debutant in the industry, his girlfriend was asked to sleep with a producer in order to land a role and she agreed to do it. Unable to digest this he was about to commit suicide, but after seeing Deepak's death in the newspaper, Naveen gets motivated to make commercial films and to make money. He explains his sincere intention to actually make a good movie that gives a proper tribute to Akhila and Deepak. Alekhya eventually agrees to star in the film without her parents or her relatives knowing.
Alekhya and Naveen slowly fall in love with each other. Alekhya's parents introduce Alekhya to Varun, the scientist son of a family friend, and someone they desire to be Alekhya's husband. Varun actually ends up meeting Alekhya once more as he plays a minor role in Naveen's movie, though he eventually understands and is friendly about it. Everything goes smoothly until one of her relatives spots her. This enrages Alekhya's parents and Alekhya gets mad that they suppressed her sister and her emotions which led her to her death. She then decides to leave the house as her father believes a gossip circulated about her and Naveen. Alekhya decides to complete the film.