Mysterious Girl (film)

Mysterious Girl is a 1999 Hinglish language romantic drama film starring debutante Uday Kiran and Venya. This film was reused in the 2003 Telugu film Jodi No.1.

Synopsis[]

Gautam, a shy man, is in love with Anju, a misandrist. He asks Preethi, their common friend, on how he should express his feelings. Preethi lives in her uncle's house and receives a letter written by Pinky, Anju's pen pal. Preethi's uncle advises Gautam to disguise himself as Pinky and stay with Anju. Preethi and her aunt help Gautam transform himself into a woman. The real Pinky later arrives. The rest of the story is how Gautam reveals to Anju his true identity and his love.

Cast[]

• Uday Kiran as Gautam, a studious and reserved man who has issues expressing his love to Anju as she dislikes men.
• Venya as Anjali (Anju)
• Srija as Preethi
• Babloo as Babloo, Gautam's friend who has no problems in finding a girl and falling in love
• Sumeet as Shiva, a man who falls in love with Pinky (Gautam)

Production[]

Uday Kiran debuted with the Hinglish film Mysterious Girl, which was produced on a low budget. The film fared poorly at the box office as the film had trouble finding buyers.^[1] The film began production after the successful film Hyderabad Blues and the entire cast was from Hyderabad.^[2] In 2002, the producers of the film wanted to release the film after Uday Kiran became famous, but Uday Kiran prevented the film from being released by intervening with the Indian Producers Council.^[3] Kiran was not paid for acting in the film.^[1]

Release[]

The film went unnoticed at the Hyderabad box office.^[2]

Christopher Domingo of Full Hyderabad wrote, "The movie crawls at a snail's pace towards oblivion. Stone-faced expressions and poor dialogue delivery are just a couple of the faults in this excuse of a film. Absolutely nothing can be said about the direction, as there is none".^[2]

The film was dubbed in Telugu as Jodi No. 1 in 2003 with close-up shots from Holi (2002) and a comedy track with Gautham Raju. Idlebrain gave the film a negative review.^[4]

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