Arjun Reddy

Arjun Reddy Deshmukh, a practising house surgeon at St. Mary’s Medical College in Mangalore, deals with severe anger management problems and impulsiveness despite being an academically exemplary student, earning him a reputation in the college. After an inter-college football match gone wrong when Arjun quarrels with the opponent team, the dean asks him to either apologize or leave the college. Arjun chooses to leave but stays back after meeting with first year student Preethi Shetty, a Tulu-speaking freshman, whom he falls in love with.

Arjun and his friend Shiva enter a junior classroom amidst a class and the former intimidates them against going after Preethi, asserting that she belongs to him. Initially uneasy about his conduct, Preethi finds comfort in a relationship with Arjun and reciprocates his feelings, prompting an intimate relationship. In the meanwhile, Arjun beats up Amit, a member of the opponent football team he fought with, as he misbehaves with Preethi for vengeance and threatens him to guard her as a brother in his absence. Arjun graduates with an MBBS degree and leaves for Mussoorie in pursuit of a Master’s degree in Orthopedic surgery. Years pass by and their bond strengthens.

While Arjun’s family rejoices over his brother Gautham’s forthcoming wedding, Arjun visits Preethi’s home to talk to her parents but Devdas Shetty, her father, sees them in an intimiate moment and throws him out of the house, declaring his strong disapproval of their relationship owing to his brash behaviour and mainly because they belong to different castes. Arjun’s grandmother explains to an aggressive Arjun that marriage is a thing between two families and persuades him to convince Preethi’s father, sharing her own experiences and troubles convincing her family about her relationship with his grandfather. Arjun tries talking to Devdas but is insulted again. Enraged, he asks Preethi to decide what she wants within six hours; otherwise, he will end their relationship. After this conflict, Preethi’s parents seize her phone and arrange her marriage with a guy who belongs to their caste. Nevertheless, she manages to go to his house but unbenknownst to her, he is heavily drunk and injects excessive morphine into himself in agony, thereby losing his consciousness for about 36 hours. Preethi is taken away and forcibly married to her fiancé and Gautham gets married, all of which Arjun learns from Shiva after regaining his senes. Devastated, he rushes to Preethi’s house and creates a scene but is beaten and apprehended by the police. Humiliated by Arjun’s demeanour, his father Dhanunjay Reddy throws him out him from the household.

Shiva helps Arjun rent a flat and join a corporate hospital as a surgeon. To deal with his trauma, Arjun begins to drink, smoke, take drugs and attempt one-night stands, all of which fail to cure his distress. He soon becomes a successful surgeon with an abnormally high surgery count and his colleagues are apprehensive of his short-temper. His addictions and refusal to move on from Preethi worries Shiva and another friend Kamal. Jia Sharma, an acclaimed film actress, consults Arjun for treatment but takes a liking to him. Arjun proposes to be in a no-strings-attached physical relationship and she agrees. However, he soon ends it when she falls in love with him.

Despite being on a leave, Arjun reluctantly agrees to perform a life-saving surgery but because of being intoxicated, he collapses from dehydration amidst the surgery. The hospital authorities collect his blood samples and discover traces of cocaine and alcohol. A case is filed against him; Gautham recruits an intelligent advocate Vipul and arranges for an in-house court hearing but Arjun, out of guilt, confesses to have violated his ethics, causing his mecial license to be suspended for five years and he is evicted from the flat. While resting on a footpath, Shiva comes for him and told him about his grandmother’s death, taking him home. Arjun reconciles with his father after his grandmother’s funeral, abandons his self-destructive habits and goes on a vacation, heeding to his father’s advice.

En route to the airport, he spots a pregnant Preethi in a park but proceeds with his vacation. Convinced that she is unhappy with her marriage, he meets her again at the same park after his vacation. After the misunderstandings clear, Preethi tells Arjun that she left her husband three days after the marriage and hasn’t even contacted her family since then; she tells him that the child is his. They share an emotional reunion and get married, with the consent of Arjun’ family. Devdas visits them soom and apologizes for being insensitive to their pure relationship.

Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 11:53