| Director | K. V. Anudeep |
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Producer Sudharsan watches a partially completed version of the film Funky, which he produced under his banner Manchi Studio, in a private screening with his assistant Balaji. Balaji informs Sudharsan that the uncompleted film itself cost around ₹40 crores. Sudharsan learns that Balaji had sold some of Sudharsan's properties to finish the schedules. Upon hearing this, Sudharsan asks Balaji why Komal quoted only four crores as the budget for the whole film, but now forty crores have been spent as Komal kept increasing the budget for filming song portions and fight sequences. Balaji also informs him that Komal has asked for an additional four crores to finish the remaining schedules. Sudharsan suffers a heart attack and is admitted to a hospital, where he gets a stent and is slowly recovering. Sudharsan's daughter Chitra visits him and learns that the debutant director Komal is the reason behind her father's health condition, and that filming was halted because Komal stopped the shooting over a tender coconut not having coconut inside the shell. Sudharsan and Balaji tell her what a nuisance he is.
Komal's mother and younger sister visit him to inform him that there is a potential marriage alliance for his sister and he should join the ceremony. But he says he'd feel weird if someone marries his sister and he had to call him "brother-in-law" and his brother-in-law's father "uncle" - all of it feels weird to him, which makes his sister angry and she leaves with their mother saying she doesn't care whether he attends or not. Later, Chitra tries to replace Komal with another director who could finish the remaining portions with a low budget. Komal persistently tries to convince Chitra, and she eventually agrees as he accepts to finish it with a one-crore budget for the remaining schedules.
As Komal discusses with his assistant directors, he notices RK, the financier GK's brother, talking with Chitra about the pending loan repayments, but Komal mistakes it and beats RK, believing he asked her for sexual companionship. Eventually, RK explains the situation and takes Komal to GK, where he learns GK is a fan of Jr. NTR, so he convinces him, saying he will get him passes for the pre-release event of Jr. NTR's upcoming film, which GK agrees to happily. Later, Chitra invites Komal to a party they have arranged to announce that the studio still makes films even after working with such a director, where he gets drunk and she drops him off at his house. Komal's landlady shouts, asking for four months' pending rent, and Chitra helps him pay the rent; out of gratitude, he hugs her.
When Chitra, Komal, and his assistants visit Komal's village to look for a shooting location, she learns about his childhood friends and how emotionally detached he is from his mother and sister. Although she is initially hesitant, she gets along with Komal. Later, Komal thanks her for dropping him off at his house and for believing in his script when her father would not give him a chance. She was the one who convinced her dad, back when Komal was just a beginner.
On the day of the pre-release event of Jr. NTR's upcoming film, GK phones Komal and Komal promises he'll make sure GK and his family meet Jr. NTR. But when GK visits the entrance with his family, Komal is not there, and as other people try to enter, falsely saying they are GK, the guards block the path and one of them slaps GK in anger. Meanwhile, Komal visits Chitra at a film festival; she had invited him there. While watching the film, she tells him that all the romantic scenes he told her about are in the film they are watching, so she asks him to write something original. The next day, he narrates a love proposal scene he originally wrote the night before. It is about a hero and heroine who want to express their feelings but do not know how, so they are just talking random things while trying to propose to each other. For example, the hero says, "Girls topped tenth standard again." The heroine replies, "Gold prices have gone up drastically." Then the hero responds, "There's huge traffic near tolls during Sankranti." Chitra interrupts him and says, "Does she say, There's a new director who doesn't pay at food joints?" and asks him to stick to copying rather than writing something like this.
At the shooting spot, Komal asks Chitra to listen to the audios he shared, hoping to express his feelings through audio, but she clicks on one of the files and it plays a recording where Komal jokingly accuses Chitra, to his assistants, of losing all the money in her startup and going bankrupt, so she blamed Komal by playing the sympathy card of her sick father, and they got all the attention they needed from the industry. Later, when she walks out of the caravan, one of the vehicles her father left a few seconds earlier explodes, and GK threatens them, saying he will not let them complete the film because Komal is the reason he was humiliated in front of his family.
Sudharsan and Chitra file a complaint at the police station explaining the situation, and they want Komal to be arrested. But Komal manages the predicament by convincing the police officer to play the role of a watchman in his film, and the officer arrests GK instead. Angered by the predicaments he has caused, Chitra tries to complete the film without Komal, but he uploads a video on YouTube portraying himself as innocent, and without other options, she reluctantly agrees to take Komal to the location.
Changed from his previous attitude, Komal cuts the budget by luring his school and college friends into working as junior artists for free. At one point, he injures his hand to save Chitra from a falling set prop, which eases the anger she had towards him. Later, she plays the audio file he mentioned earlier and hears him saying he likes her. While discussing daily expenses for the schedule, he overhears Chitra telling her father on the phone that she did not meet the guy her father asked her to see.