Review of Happy Days

Happy Days (2007)
6/10
Definitely better than most of the crap in tollywood but ahem.....
11 April 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The movie shows a small chunk of 8 students' life in an Engineering college. Kudos to the director for selecting a really existing college, which I think is one of the basic reasons for the good openings. After watching the movie, I realized that Marketing for the movie is good and Direction... well ahem...

At the outset, the students enter the college as singles and leave the college as couples. (One fellow fails only coz he dint trust his friends.) The director created a fantasy world by revolving around the love that develops between these characters.

One of the worst parts of the movie is when Kamalini Mukherjee enters... as a lecturer but looks like a hooker. And the second worst part is when a cricket match takes place between the seniors and the juniors. You should watch it to know how bad it is.

There is a lot of incoherence in the story told. Climax is synonymous to the director's last two movies. Heroin and hero going out together (In Anand its a car, in Godavari its a walk and... YES YES U R CORRECT!! its a bike here!! ) The director always seems biased towards the female role. The subtle dominance of heroin is quite obvious in all his movies so far. But in this movie it goes a bit too far when the heroine makes the hero strip off his pant and throw it into the river...just bcoz some junior girl touched it. This wonderful event takes place at the necklace road of Hyd!!! So they two happily get onto the bike (on which the junior girls rides too B-)) and go home with the hero in his boxers and saying that it's cool as he is getting air!!! Most of the folks who liked the movie were impressed by the character 'Tyson'. But the boy speaks as though he is brushing all the time. I couldn't figure out half of what he spoke through out the movie. He loves his senior and that girl did well.

The telangana accent-wala Rajesh's character was funny. His pair girl was also okie. But I wonder how these two come to each other's hostel rooms during nights. Rajesh even goes into her room and wakes her from sleep during one scene.

There is one supposedly-clever-cum-poor fellow who gets off the studying-track for a girl who cheats on him. Neither his character nor his lover's are fully shown evolving. We are left with the question why the girl selected him from all the available choices in the college.

Now comes the lead role. Chandu and Madhu. Tamanna Bhatia as Madhu is really charming, and the director shows his obsession with the ladies' waist and back by showing again and again that part full screen. The boy who played Chandu's role reminds us of Siddharth. But knowingly or unknowingly he imitated him too.

The movie is more clichéd than it is well-written and the dialogue is not intelligent either. There are some moments in life, when everyone except you agrees on a point. Majority wins (esp. in a democracy) irrespective of what your point is. So I lose here :(
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