![]() ![]() There was nothing spectacular about the movie. I wish to see that as a positive step on the part of the Director, willing to correct mistakes in the finished product. I hear that the climax was changed to what I ended up watching, after post-release criticism on logical irregularities. Also, there weren’t any song-dance sequences songs took the story ahead, and that is something I expect to see in every movie ( Spoof Dances like Dhoom Tha Na in Om Shanti Om are also expected). But it is in the lyrics department that it outdid the former. The songs weren’t as catchy as Happy Days but nevertheless very melodious and thoughtful. The happy ending wasn’t to be with a Dharmapuri incident-like climax, which I kind of expected with the movie coming from the same team as Kadhal did. Two scenes I liked the most were the one where the girl makes him realize the cost of his education and the one where she confesses her love towards him, to the other girl and the subsequent explanation by that girl towards the need for her idealistic views. The uneasiness amongst the two, to stand up to their friends’ ideals and control themselves was nicely shown. But when two of them are attracted to each other, I thought, another movie going down the drain. One of the girls is portrayed to be staunchly against the concept of Love and expects everyone to be friends forever and nothing more. Each one with different problems in their family life, socio-economic or otherwise, but when together tend to forget about all that and help each other out in their own very way. It was set in a village/town backdrop, wherein a group of village-friends are joined by a city-girl in their BA-History class. I was taken aback by this novel beginning and mind you the song was not the preachy kinds – I felt it was pretty funny. Instead of ragging being the crux, its a song by the seniors explaining ways to screw up their education culminating in a request to avoid those ways and study well. Was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the leading ladies in both the films to be common. I saw this movie only because techsatish was showing it. I will remember this movie more for the songs than anything else. The friendship being portrayed too felt a bit artificial at sometimes. ![]() With a do-takey ka dialogue, his story is finished off. But this movie got caught up with the love-interests of the leading characters and forgot about the guy from the village. Though set in an engineering college backdrop, the movie attempted to summarize college life in general. There are many who remain very good friends and not go by the KKHH-SRK definition of Love. If not for the supposed branding, I wouldn’t have had this itch to criticize this movie. Yes, the LOVE angle is bound to be there – I do not disagree with that, but when you are trying to brand your movie to be a family movie, trying to tell the parents, a fair share of what they should know, then why not be totally correct too. All the friends just HAD to be paired up right!!!? This is where the movie pissed me off the most because the message that is given here is that all college gangs are pairs or trying to be. Apart from a single instance of Friendship-Showing ( Tyson – Shankar ), the rest was unbearable. ( I had more comedy to deal with due to the comments of a college gang on the camrip ). The comedy was in most parts provided by Rajesh’s character. I feel this movie is more for the parents of students than students themselves because they get to see more of their kids’ lives than they usually would get to. The songs were excellent and “Happy Days” and ” Oh My Friend ” will replace ” Mustafa” at college farewells for sure. I now feel, more than the story, it is the choice of the manner in which the story was told that mattered more. There have been infinitely many movies based on college life, but this one shall be remembered for a long time because of the story. The fact that the average Telugu movie buff is an engineering college student has hugely biased that opinion. Happy Days is another Shekhar Kammula movie that has struck the right chords in the Telugu cine-goer’s heart. With the dawn of the new year fast approaching, I now sit down to compare two movies of 2007 dealing with the theme of college life, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamizh. ![]()
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