Happy Malayalam Movie
Natalie Omahony
Happy is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by A. Karunakaran and produced by Allu Aravind under his production Geetha Arts banner. The film stars Allu Arjun and Genelia D'Souza in the lead roles, while Manoj Bajpayee, Deepak Shirke, Brahmanandam, Kishore and Tanikella Bharani appear in supporting roles. The music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while the cinematography and editing were handled by R. D. Rajasekhar and Anthony.
Happy was released on 27 January 2006 and became a moderate success at the box office. Later the film was dubbed and released in Malayalam as Happy Be Happy it was a huge blockbuster in Kerala and it ran successfully over than 175 days in kerala[2]
Madhumathi "Madhu" is the daughter of MLA Suryanarayana, who is a martinet at home with his attachment to power. Surya believes that his daughter's behavior would influence his caste politics, where he tries to keep her from continuing her MBBS as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhu comes to her third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity, focusing completely on studies and not being involved in relationships and love affairs.
Madhu goes for a medical camp with her classmates to Araku Valley, where she meets Bunny Bhasker in the woods. Madhu's initial encounter with Bunny is funny and playful. Bunny comes to Hyderabad and joins in a pizza shop as a delivery boy and continues his MBA by attending evening classes. In an incident, Surya assumes that Madhu is dating Bunny, where he decides to get her married to DCP Arvind. Madhu is more attached to her studies than marriage, where she goes to Bunny and blames him for her marriage. Learning this, Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets Arvind, where he lies to Arvind and convinces him that he is in love with Madhu. Arvind believes the latter and cancels the wedding, thus angering Surya.
Later, Surya plans to get her married to his friend's son Subba Rao, where he visits DCP Arvind and gives him the marriage invitation. Shocked, Aravind meets Bunny and gets him married to Madhu in a registrar's office, where he also gives his new flat for the couple. Madhu becomes estranged from her family and ends up living with Bunny, who Bunny ends up living with Madhu as he lost his job. Throughout their times together, mishaps and comedic events happen, where Bunny ends up falling for Madhu. Being separated from her family, Madhu has no way of paying for fees. One day, Madhu expresses this to Bunny, who gets into the film industry as an action choreographer and performs dangerous stunts in order to pay her semester fees.
Madhu scores lowest marks in a subject and gets negative feedback from her professor. To focus on her studies, Madhu scorns Bunny and wants him to be out of the house. Madhu focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS degree with honors. On the day of her graduation, Madhu admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny, where her friend reveals about Bunny performing dangerous stunts for her college fees. Madhu's friend reveals that Bunny had told her not to reveal this to Madhu and had told her that he is going back to his home in Vishakhapatnam. With regret, Madhu tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the railway station.
On the way there, Madhu gets arrested under prostitution charges by Surya's nemesis ACP Ratnam as she unknowingly gave a lift to a sex worker. Surya storms into the police station and slaps Ratnam for arresting Madhu, but Surya also gets arrested. Madhu manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the inmates, where Bunny arrives to the station. Bunny also had an incident with Ratnam as he once berated him in public for smoking in a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and has a long and bloody fight with Ratnam and the police until Aravind intervenes and stops the fight. Aravind asks Bunny and Madhu to leave and tells that he will take care of everything. Bunny and Madhu finally reunite with each other.
Songs released on 30 December 2005, was a major highlight and main strength of the film.[3] It features six tracks with 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry, Chandrabose, Kulasekhar, Viswa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Ananta Sriram having each penned lyrics for one song. Music composer Yuvan Shankar Raja received critical acclaim for the music of Happy.
Idlebrain.com wrote "Happy is a happy film watch for its songs and comedy."[4] Indiaglitz wrote "The combination of enjoyable fun, good music and easy emotions make Happy work."[5]
Revathy was 25 in this movie, and had been a heroine in 3 industries (Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu) since she was 17. Before that, she had formally completed her Bharatnatyam dance training at age 13. Mohanlal was only 6 years older than her, and had a filmography not much longer. And to match her Bharatnatyam training, he had his all state wrestling championships prior to film. They were an evenly matched pair, both with a lifetime of training in a difficult skill related to performing (dance and wrestling), both with a decade of acting behind them in a whole variety of industries, and both young and enthusiastic to balance their experience.
In this case, it is even more obvious, the film was planned and written for Amala. When she married and retired, Revathy was easily able to step into her shoes and make the role her own. That is how many talented actresses were working at the time, you could lose one and find another without even taking a breath.
Oh wait, yes it can!!!!! Just as Mohanlal is considering whether he should bring her back to her family, Revathy reveals she has been faking this whole time! Not only is she a full mature woman, she is a mature woman who remembers everything that she has shared with Mohanlal up to now, whose personality and sense of humor and all the rest of it is still the same. As an audience member, all I was hoping for was something like a blow to the head which would magically cure her, not this elaborate system which makes everything that happened before still matter, while also making her a viable romantic possibility in the present.
I guess his character was meant to be someone who grew tired of the world-professionally & otherwise-and put on this mask of a difficult man for the world. He enjoys quarelling with Innocent & later with Revathi-those are the only real relationships in his otherwise empty life. Oh also the friendly banter with Mohanlal. In the song Neelavenalil, the three of them take turns teaming up in twos to tease the third one. I thought that was an adorable depiction of their new-found fun, equals relationship.
Yes, I loved that song! Especially because it also seemed to imply to me what their household might look like in future if/when Mohanlal married Revathy. He could be a live-in son-in-law, but it would be happy and egalitarian, not embarrassing.
The only actress in the present day that even compares is Parvathy. Which is really sad, compared to the huge number of talented actresses working back then. But when I think of my favorite Malayalam films from modern times, it is all these actresses who were in one or two films and then faded away.
I somehow feel like Nivin is a little more interested in having a stronger costar than Dulquer. Not just his love interest, but the whole cast of the film, I feel like Nivin is more interested in ensemble films with interesting roles, like the way he stepped back to let Renji Penicker shine in Jacobinte Swargarajyam.
It feels like there are different issues in every industry, but they are all bad. Not like one is better than the other, or worse than the other, they are just different. Just looking at the issue of aging heroes versus young actresses, in the Malayalam industry it seems like the solution is to cycle through a never ending group of new heroines. While in the Hindi industry it is to use the same handful of heroines opposite the big heroes, not bothering to give them characters or personalities, just trusting the audience to fill in the blanks based on the other films they have already seen the same heroine in.
As for the overall regression of how women are treated in films-I read somewhere that in Telugu, the advent of action/mass films by Chiranjeevi is where the power/portrayal of women changed.The heroine became just another thing to glorify the hero rather than being on equal terms. And typically the people wdnt want to see whom they consider as their daughters, sisters as objects to lust after. So import from other languages. I bet the same thought process,trends were followed in every other language including Malayalam-though a bit late. Every language now has a flavour-of-the-month kinda heroine. 2-3 films in each language & then gone. My hope is that this was a temporary phase in a societiel cycle of ups & downs and the end of the bad phase is almost near.
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Happiness is a positive and pleasant emotion, ranging from contentment to intense joy. Moments of happiness may be triggered by positive life experiences or thoughts, but sometimes it may arise from no obvious cause. The level of happiness for longer periods of time is more strongly correlated with levels of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, flourishing and eudaimonia. In common usage, the word happy can be an appraisal of those measures themselves or as a shorthand for a "source" of happiness. As with any emotion, the precise definition of happiness has been a perennial debate in philosophy.
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