Mr. Perfect

Mr. Perfect is a 2011 Telugu romantic drama directed by Dasaradh and produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations. Prabhas stars with Kajal Aggarwal and Taapsee Pannu, alongside Murali Mohan, Prakash Raj, Nassar, Sayaji Shinde and K. Viswanath, with music by Devi Sri Prasad. Released on 22 April 2011 to positive reviews, it was a box-office success and, according to Times Now, Prabhas’s biggest hit up to then. It won the Nagi Reddy Memorial Award for best Telugu family entertainer of 2011.

What the story is about

Vicky runs a successful video-game company in Australia and lives by one rule: never compromise. He believes people in a relationship should stay exactly who they are rather than change for a partner, a view that keeps him at odds with his father, who insists that give and take is what keeps a family happy. Back in India, his parents arrange a match with Priya, a gentle doctor and his childhood friend, who is everything he is not: traditional, and always ready to set aside her own wishes for others. After a rocky start of pranks and friction, Priya falls for Vicky and quietly begins remaking herself to fit his life, giving up classical dance, changing her food and her clothes, which is exactly the kind of compromise Vicky says no relationship can survive.

Cast

• Prabhas as Vicky
• Kajal Aggarwal as Priya
• Taapsee Pannu as Maggie
• Nassar as Vicky’s father and Murali Mohan as Priya’s father
• Prakash Raj as Dubey, Maggie’s father, and Pragathi as her mother
• K. Viswanath as Maggie’s grandfather
• Brahmanandam as Jalsa Kishore, Sayaji Shinde as Priya’s uncle and Raghu Babu as Dubey’s brother-in-law
• Satyadev and Krishnudu as Vicky’s friends, and Raja Ravindra as Dubey’s employee

Music

Devi Sri Prasad’s soundtrack was released on 19 March 2011. Shreya Ghoshal won the Hyderabad Times Film Award for best playback singing for “Chali Chaliga”.

Release and box office

Mr. Perfect opened in almost 800 theatres in Andhra Pradesh, with about 200 prints for the rest of India and overseas. Times Now lists it among the hits Prabhas delivered before Baahubali; Wikipedia, citing that article, gives a distributors’ share of over ₹32 crore and calls it the second-highest-grossing Telugu film of 2011. It was dubbed into Tamil and Malayalam, and into Hindi in 2013 as No.1 Mr. Perfect. It was re-released in Japan in May 2024, where The Statesman reported strong turnouts.

What critics said

Sify praised Dasaradh’s “clean, family-oriented outlook” and found the screenplay “slow, but interesting”. Idlebrain.com felt the first half was okay and the second predictable, with the casting, production values, cinematography and music as the strengths. The Statesman later called it a “timeless classic”. The film received six nominations at the 59th Filmfare Awards South.

Plagiarism claim

The novelist Shyamala Rani went to court claiming that the story is based on her novel Naa Manasu Korindi Ninne, and said in April 2019 that the court had passed an interim judgement in her favour. Wikipedia does not record a final ruling.

Where to watch Mr. Perfect

We do not have a confirmed streaming platform for Mr. Perfect on file. The OTT details on this page will be updated when a platform’s own listing confirms it.

Sources: the Wikipedia article on Mr. Perfect and the report it cites, linked above; Wikidata; our own cast and crew records.