Junior ending explained: What becomes of Abhi after Vijaya Soujanya comes into his family?

Abhi (Kireeti Reddy) is the only son of Kodandapaani (V Ravichandran), who had the lad a little late in life. Kodanda’s wife, Shyamala had died in childbirth, which turned him into a helicopter parent, hovering around Abhi’s every movement. As he grows up, Abhi begins to feel it increasingly restricting and does his best to distance himself from his father. Instead, he focuses on making the most of life during his college years and devotes all his time to making memories, falling in love and so on and so forth.

After college, Abhi ends up interning at a major IT firm, run by the hot-headed Vijaya Soujanya (Genelia Deshmukh) and right from the get-go the duo is at loggerheads. Incensed by what she considers insolent behaviour on his part, Vijaya banishes Abhi to a remote corner of the office, where he’s put in charge of digitizing records of their CSR activities. In doing so, Abhi spots discrepancies, which he brings to her notice and while she isn’t initially pleased at hearing about a scam from an intern, she thaws eventually and heads out to the village the firm was supposed to be working with.

The twists in the plot of Junior

Turns out, Vijaya has a connection to the village, a memory that she’s been trying to bury and distance herself from. She is Abhi’s sister, a connection that he knows but she remains unaware of. Years ago, Kodandapaani and Shyamala had to cut ties with Vijaya and have her adopted by a close family friend, who could afford to give the young girl the treatment she needed for a debilitating lung condition.

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Abhi then makes it his mission to reconcile Vijaya with Kodandapaani, but tragedy strikes when the latter is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and after a particular incident that lands him in hospital, he wakes up remembering Vijaya, but not Abhi. The irony was that for someone who was all about making memories, he ceased to be one for the person he most cherished.

Junior marked Kireeti Reddy’s debut as leading man, a film that was delayed in the making. He was paired with Sreeleela. The film, featuring music by Devi Sri Prasad, also stars Achyuth Kumar, Rao Ramesh, Kiran Srinivas, among others.

FAQs

Q. Who is Kireeti Reddy?

A. Kireeti Reddy is the son of Ballari-based politician and mining baron, Gaali Janardhan Reddy.

Q. Is Junior a hit?

A. Junior is said to have been made at a budget of Rs 25 crore, with trackers estimating that it made around Rs 7.65 cr in theatrical revenue from the Telugu version and around Rs 2.2 cr from Kannada. While the Telugu-Kannada bilingual was not a box office success, Kireeti received praise for his efforts in the film.

Q. Where can one watch Junior?

A. Junior is available on 3 platforms, namely, aha Telugu, Amazon Prime Video and Namma Flix, with the latter offering the Kannada version exclusively