Yuvatha

Yuvatha (“Youth”) is a 2008 Telugu action drama that marked the directorial debut of Parasuram. Nikhil Siddhartha and Aksha play the leads, with Sayaji Shinde and Jeeva in support. Mani Sharma composed the music, Jaswanth shot it and Marthand K. Venkatesh edited it. It was released on 7 November 2008 and was a commercial success.

What the story is about

Babu, an orphan raised by his uncle and aunt, is convinced they have swindled him out of his property. After a row he leaves for Hyderabad to live with three friends he trusts: Ajay, a software engineer, Kiran, a security guard, and Subbu, an assistant film director. Kind-hearted and happy-go-lucky, Babu befriends a lonely young woman called Baby, and the four friends make it their job to cheer her up.

At Baby’s birthday party, Babu takes on some goons who harass her. They return for revenge, and Subbu is badly hurt. To pay for his surgery Babu borrows from a moneylender who wants his money back within a week, and the friends’ desperate attempts to raise it lead them into much bigger trouble than they bargained for.

Cast and crew

• Nikhil Siddhartha as Babu
• Aksha as Baby
• Randhir Gattla as Ajay
• Utkam Rudhraksh as Kiran
• Sayaji Shinde as Nannanna
• Jeeva as Sonu Seth
• Narsing Yadav as the moneylender Laddu
• Jaya Prakash Reddy as the jailer
• Prakash Raj as Ghanta Babu and Brahmanandam as Gandhi
• Posani Krishna Murali as the Home Minister

Director: Parasuram. Music: Mani Sharma, with lyrics by Krishna Chaitanya. Cinematography: Jaswanth. Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh.

Music

The six-song soundtrack was launched on 21 August 2008 at Jouk Pub in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, where Dil Raju released the CD and Bommarillu Bhaskar the cassette; Aditya Music marketed it. “Eelesi Nuvvu” reworks “Aadungada Yennai Suththi”, which Mani Sharma wrote for the Tamil Pokkiri, and he later reused the tune of “Yevarunnarani Neekaina” in the Tamil film Padikkadavan.

Reviews and box office

A critic from 123telugu called it a “decent entertainer and a good one time watch”. Idlebrain included it in its list of the top 14 Telugu films of 2008, and T2BLive gives it a distributors’ share of ₹3.5 crore.

Where to watch Yuvatha

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Sources: the Wikipedia article on Yuvatha and the reviews and reports it cites, linked above; our own cast and crew records.