Happy Days Review (Manachitram Exclusive)
Telugu industry is now proud to state that its producing some decent movies which are abosolutely away from routine masala and love stories. Recently coming movies are being recognized in the nation wise and direction talents are getting proved by this. "Bommarillu" was well received in 2006. In 2007 its "Happy Days" which is going to see the same success rate. As of now 'Anand' , 'Godavari' are the movies which already brought good name to Shekar Kammula. He has crafted beautiful sweet memories of college life, aims, desires, disatisfcation, freindship, love on the silver screen. He has moved the movie with a positive mindset of college life and touched the hearts. He made everybody to recall their college days. Its getting released on 28th September in US and 2nd October in Andhra pradesh was stated by shekar, and he is too confident about the movie.
The story goes like this, its movie based on guys who did four years engineering, the venue for this movie is CBIT ( Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology), Gandipet, Hyderabad. Chandrashekar allias Chandu is varun sandhesh, Madhu is Tamanna, Tyson is Rahul, Rajesh is Nikhil, Shankar is vamshikrishna, Aparna alias appu is gayatri rao, sangeetha is monali chowdary are they guys and gals who join in first year engineering, after one year they mould themselves to good friends. Shankar falls in love with Sangeetha. Tyson shows interest in sravanthi ( sonia). Rajesh is a flickering guy, he says sometimes he loves lecturer kamalini mukherjee, as she leaves college then starts loving other girl. But Apu has her vision only on Rajesh. First years goes off peacefully apart from small misunderstandings. They become senior as they step into second year. During a rainy evening, chandu comes close to madhu and says that he feels likes kissing her. That will be heard by father of madhu. Having seen her father hearing those words from chandu, she gets crushed under shy. Since then she goes away from chandu. She never responds if he wishes to talk to her. Tyson who sacrifices his computer science seat for shankar, he discloses the ture colors of Sangeetha, he says that she is not a proper match for him. On this issue, there will be conflict between shankar and tyson. Tyson requests sangeetha not to spoil shanakars life. As she is irresponsive he slaps on her face. She discloses this with shankar and rages up shankar on tyson. Shankar with the help of seniors will man handle tyson seriously. After that what happened? did chandu and madhu came together? could shankar recognize the true colors? whats the fate of tyson love story? did apu and rajesh were together? How was happy days concluded? is the rest part of the movie.
This movie is different from regular formula, its crafted as feel good Happy Day's movie. Infact co ordinating these four pairs and moving the film smoothly is not an easy job. He has done wonderful work in directing this movie. Almost all characters in his movie are new comers. Having seen the movie, never we get a feel that its boring at this point of time, Shekar made it very interesting. He worked really hard for directing the movie. First half of movie goes cool and casual with fun, second half will be emotional ones in love story. Chandu requesting her a kiss and her father listening and she avoiding him looks very natural. Chandu teases her by pertending of love with other girl, finally they both come together. Tyson, sravanthi coming together scene is excellent. Tempo of movie is maintained and its heart touching. There are no vilians, lecturers never dominate, no cycle chains are there, no volgarity. He has concluded the film nicely and happily. Its a VERY CLEAN MOVIE.
Analysis :
The film's first half is neat, it did not get the emotional touch of shekar kammula. In the second half he made audiences to stick on to their seats and got everybody connected to the movie.
The movie has some plus points such as direction, music, cinematography and editing. The negatives of the film are the tempo of the film is not contstantly maintained. Anand and Godavari are some of the movies which are female oriented ones. Even the fundamental drive of movie is changed, but still he maintained his direction standards on track. If shekar kammula stick to his standards, then its for sure he can never make a bad film. Its worth to watch Happy Days