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.
The film is an official remake of the 2004 Tamil film Azhagiya Theeye with Radha Mohan providing the story while Karunakaran wrote the screenplay with Kona Venkat penning the dialogues.[1] The Bengali film titled Bolo Na Tumi Aamar (2010) is inspired from the film.
Happy was released on 27 January 2006 the film was a critical flop but, 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 foot-tapping, brilliant and excellent 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]
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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.
If you've ever felt like you've wasted spending time on the Telugu corners of the internet, Ritesh Rana has the perfect gift for you. He's given you a gift box full of so many references that you could spend the next decade listing all of them and you're sure to miss at least one. My favorite was Mouli Talks' Mouli saying "Laddu Lagz Unnave Pilla" (You look like a laddu). But honestly, at this point, I might have laughed harder at others but I just don't remember.
It's hard to even review a movie that's trying to throw a punchline at everything it is influenced by starting from Chiranjeevi films from the 80s and 90s to Pushpa's 'Oo Antaava' to Jabardasth to the latest goof-ups on YouTube. This is the kind of film which makes you feel smart for getting all the references.
This exists in the same plane as shows like Community, Angie Tribeca, or even the old Epic Movie and Scary Movie Franchises although this one has a lot more class and barely any crass. In fact, there hasn't been a movie so outlandishly internet-reference heavy. Happy Birthday uses meme language and memes to punch up a few scenes? Are we on the verge of a new film grammar where writers can insert memes for humor? Will Scorcese find Marvel Cinema as art if he hears about this concept?
But who cares when Happy Birthday marks such a seminal moment in Telugu pop culture, which consolidates almost all the landmark internet moments of the last decade or so while also incorporating spoofs and satire on politics and cinema.
The plot is simple. In a fictional country called Zindia, there is a state called Zelanagana and its capital is Zin City. In that city, someone has a need for money and someone is out to stop them. And each one has a person above them who thinks they're running the game. Until they're not. The chain keeps adding on until there's a semblance of a circular structure to it. I'm not being cryptic. This could apply to Lavanya Tripathi's Happy, Satya's Max Pain, Vennela Kishore's Rytwik, or Naresh Agastya's Vicky.
For Ritesh Rana's plot is perfunctory at best and an inconvenience at worst. For him, style is the message and the punchline. Therefore, the film's structure gets tiring because there is no straight-faced protagonist. Think of the film Idiocracy, which wanted to pass a comment on the intellectual decay in America. It's not art but its foreboding message lends it some timelessness.
Here, there is no such protagonist and everyone is the butt of the joke and everything is reduced a to a joke. So the only emotional state the audience find themselves is happy, shock (at a reference that we get), and surprise at a twist. But Rana stretches the plot into so many knots at some point I was wondering if that was deliberate too. Is he telling us 'Look how silly these thrillers get?' Is everything a joke?
What I love about Rana's work is that he knows that Telugu actors deserve better scripts. For first Lavanya Tripathi is amazing and annoying as the protagonist but to even envision her in this role after the kind of work she does usually in Telugu cinema is a brave move. She relishes the part too even in the moments when she's not getting the comedy right. Her imitations of Telugu actors and the campiness of the second half lets you at least smile as if she were a friend being goofy just to make you laugh. She even gets her own reference in the film and that was sweet.
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