Happy Days

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Post K. Vishwanath, there is a huge vaccum in Telugu cinema to create some natural characters, situations and melodious music on screen. To certain extent that gap is filled by Shekar Kamnula. First I saw his 'Anand' and when I recently catched up with his 'Happy Days', it reaffirmed that some good movies are going to come in Tollywood, through Shekar's way. Happy Days is stylish, sensitive, rollicking, soothing and above all so natural that we all college goers might have faced with whatever the lead protagonists - Chandu, Madhu, Tyson, Shravanmthi, Shankar, Sangeeta, Rajesh and Aparna undergo in the movie. Shekar succeeds in making an autobiography sort of movie covering the day one to final day of Engineering college students, their trials, escapades, smiles, tears and emotions, in a commercial format. The movie is beautifully shot by DOP Radhakrishna, characters wear trendy / normal clothes thanks to Pantaloons and a soothing score by debutante Mickey Meyer. Madhu (Thamanna) and Chandu (Varun) stands apart from the crowd, followed by Tyson (Sandesh), Rajesh (Nikhil). Kamalinee Mukherjee breezes in a lovely cameo. A lovely movie that made me gasp - "Wish my college life was bit more like this..."