Manchivadu is a 2011 Telugu family drama starring Tanish, Bhama, Venu Madhav, Chandra Mohan. Vanisri is a poor girl and lives with her ailing mother. Once when she is out for buying medicine for her mother a goon tries to outrage her modesty and follows till her house. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, a poor youth, saves her from the goon. The dying old lady takes a promise from Rao to take care of her daughter. Rao starts taking care of Vanisri. Soon the society starts asking about their relationship.

Sakthivel (Sarath Kumar), the head of a village wants to marry off his foreign returned brother Selvam (Vikram) to the girl of his dreams. But the only hitch is that the girl happens to be a famous actress (Devyani). Will she agree to an alliance like this?