Happy Happygaa - Movie Review

Film: Happy Happyga
Cast: Varun Sandesh, Sharanya Mohan, Vega, Ali, Ravi Shankar, M S Narayana, Ranjitha, Saptagiri, Telangana Shakuntala and others
Dialogues: Anil Ravipudi
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetaramashastry
Cinematography: Venki A Darshan
Editing: K V Krishna Reddy
Produced by: Durgaprasad Vadlamudi
Story, screenplay and directed by: Priya Sharan
Release date: August 20, 2010
CBFC Rating: U

What’s it about
A happy go lucky guy Santosh (Varun Sandesh) runs a company that sends greetings personally. He derives happiness from helping others when they are in sorrow. This good-natured guy falls in love with Pooja (Vega), who just returns from UK. Santosh and Pooja become good friends, when he tries to express his love to her, she tells him that she doesn’t believe in love and has no good opinion about love marriage. Hoping to convince her later, he suppresses his feelings then. One day he hands over his love letters to her saying he has written thinking of his dream lover. When she asks him to show that dream lover, he casually shows a girl randomly and the girl turns out to be Priya (Sharanya Mohan), sister of the city’s don. Pooja vows to make Priya and his friend Santosh together and the triangle drama proceeds with twists and turns.

Analysis

Romantic stories are made dime a dozen in Tollywood. Most of them are made in similar pattern. But these days, most of the filmmakers are looking ‘inspiration for Korean movies’ for romantic dramas and adopting them to suit our Telugu audiences and failing to recreate the same magic of the original. Happy Happygaa is also poor copy of a Korean triangle love story but the first time director has made it in such a sloppy way that even before the interval comes, you start looking for an exit door. Till interval the movie doesn’t move forward. The film’s so-called twists and turns all happen in the last twenty minutes in a hurry, leaving the audiences in flurry of boredom. The director should be sent to crash course in direction; his narrative skills, his treatment and his selection of casting – all show lack of creativity and inexperience.

Except for Manisharma’s couple of good songs, Sirivennela’s meaningful lyrics and comedy scenes, the film is sheer boredom.

Performances

Even after doing five films, Varun Sandesh has not improved much as performer. His expressions and his dialogue delivery still are amateurish. The less said about the heroines the better - both Sharanya Mohan and Vega are best suited for ‘sister roles’ than heroine characters. Ali evokes some good laughter and he has lengthy role that is almost equal to the film’s hero Varun Sandesh.

Two songs are lilting and Manisharma on the whole has given better work for this movie. Sirivennela lyrics are also meaningful. Cinematography, editing, and other technical departments also don’t add any gloss to the movie. Some of the dialogues by Anil are good but the film’s main drawback is bad screenplay and poor narration. The first time director has not shown a single bit of creativity either in screenplay or in direction.