Happy (2006 film)

Happy
Film poster
Directed by	A. Karunakaran
Screenplay by	A. Karunakaran Kona Venkat (dialogues)
Story by	Radha Mohan
Based on	Azhagiya Theeye
Produced by	Allu Aravind
Starring	Allu Arjun Genelia D'Souza Manoj Bajpayee
Cinematography	R. D. Rajasekhar
Edited by	Anthony
Music by	Yuvan Shankar Raja
Production company	Geetha Arts
Distributed by	Geetha Arts Disney UTV
Release date	27 January 2006 (2006-01-27)
Running time	152 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu

Happy is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language action comedy film directed by A. Karunakaran and produced by Allu Aravind under Geetha Arts. The film stars Allu Arjun, Genelia D'Souza, and Manoj Bajpayee while Deepak Shirke, Brahmanandam, Kishore and Tanikella Bharani play supporting roles. The music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja. The film is an official remake of Radha Mohan's Tamil film Azhagiya Theeye (2004).^[1][2] Karunakaran scripted the film with dialogues by Kona Venkat. Released on 27 January 2006, the film was commercial failure.^[3]

Plot[]

Madhumati is the daughter of a politician who turns out to be a martinet at home with his attachment to power. He believes that his daughter's behavior would influence his caste politics, so he tries to keep her from continuing her MBBS as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhumathi comes to their third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity and without involving in any affairs of love. Her focus is completely on studies. She goes for a medical camp and her classmates to Araku Valley where she meets Bunny randomly in the woods. Her initial encounter with him 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, Madhumathi’s father thinks that his daughter is dating someone and comes to believe that it's none other than Bunny. Due to this, he decides to get her married to a person of his own caste Arvind, who is settled as the DCP.

Madhumati is more attached to her studies than marriage. She goes to Bunny and places the blame on him saying that he was the reason for her marriage. Getting to know that ,Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets Arvind. Bunny lies to Arvind and convinces him that he is in love with Madhumathi. Arvind believes the latter and cancels the wedding. Later on, Madhumathi's father plans to get her married to his friend's son, an illiterate, and doesn't want his wife to be educated. Her father visits DCP Arvind and gives him the marriage invitation. Shocked Arvind meets Bunny and gets him married to Madhumathi in a registrar's office. He also gives his new flat for the couple to live in.

Madhumathi becomes estranged from her family and, in another series of events, ends up living with Bunny (or rather Bunny ends up living with her, as he loses his job). Throughout their times together, mishaps and comedic events happen; Bunny ends up falling for Madhumati. Being separated from her family, Madhumati has no way of paying for fees, and one day, she expresses this to Bunny. Bunny gets into the film industry as a stuntman taking a high risk to his life to pay the semester fees of Madhumathi’s MBBS.

Madhumathi scores low in a subject and gets negative feedback from her professor. To focus on her studies, she scorns Bunny and wants him to be out of the house. Madhumathi then focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS degree with honors. On the day of her graduation, she admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny. Her friend reveals that Bunny risked his life to pay her college tuition fee by doing dangerous stunts. He told her not to tell Madhumathi, and he is going back to Vizag that day. With regret, Madhumati tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the train station. On the way there she gets caught by a roadblock set up by a policeman who is her father's nemesis. As she was giving a lift to a sex worker (she didn't know at the time), she is jailed under prostitution charges. Soon, her father is arrested as he storms the station and slaps the police who arrested her in a rage of fury. She manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the inmates, and Bunny comes to the station. Bunny also had an incident with the policeman who arrested Madhumati as he once berated him in public for smoking in a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and begins to fight with the police. The police and Bunny have a long and bloody fight. DCP Arvind eventually comes and stops the fight. Bunny then tells that ACP Ratnam falsely arrested Madhumathi. Realizing how much the two love each other, Arvind allows the police to release Madhumathi from jail. He asks Bunny and Mathumathi to leave and says that he'll take care of everything. The couple unites.

Cast[]

Soundtrack[]

The soundtrack was composed by noted Tamil composer Yuvan Shankar Raja, which was released formally on 30 December 2005.^[4] It features six tracks with 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry, Chandrabose, Kulasekhar, Viswa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Ananta Sriram having each penned lyrics for one song. Yuvan Shankar Raja received much critical acclaim for the music of Happy, which was described as foot-tapping, brilliant and excellent,^[5][6] and also as the major highlight and main strength of the film.^[7][8]

Original version[]

Malayalam version[]

Lyrics for all the songs were penned by Siju Thuravoor.

Reception[]

Critical reception[]

Idlebrain.com rated the film 3.5/5 and stated: "Happy is a happy film watch for its songs and comedy." He appreiciated the performance of Allu Arjun, songs picturization, and technical values while criticizing the tempo in the latter half.^[6]Indiaglitz wrote that: "With a simple story and imaginative screenplay, the movie keeps you engrossed. The combination of enjoyable fun, good music and easy emotions make the film work."^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• Happy at IMDb