Hello Guru Prema Kosame

Hello Guru Prema Kosame (meaning “Hello guru, for the sake of love”) is a 2018 Telugu-language romantic comedy directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina. It stars Ram Pothineni, Anupama Parameswaran and Pranitha Subhash, with Prakash Raj, Aamani, Jayaprakash, Sithara, Noel Sean, Sayaji Shinde and Posani Krishna Murali. It was released on 18 October 2018.

Story

Sanju is a happy-go-lucky young man from Kakinada whose world revolves around his parents and friends. He reluctantly moves to Hyderabad to find an IT job, as his parents wish, and stays in the home of Viswanath, a friend of his mother. On the train he irritates a young woman who speaks badly of Kakinada boys, only to discover that she is Viswanath’s daughter, Anu, and that he will be living with her and driving her to college every morning. Their prickly relationship slowly turns into something more, with complications along the way.

Cast

• Ram Pothineni, Anupama Parameswaran and Pranitha Subhash in the lead roles
• Prakash Raj, whose scenes reviewers singled out
• Aamani, Jayaprakash, Sithara, Noel Sean, Sayaji Shinde and Posani Krishna Murali

Title and music

The title comes from a song of the same name in the 1991 film Nirnayam. Devi Sri Prasad composed the soundtrack, and Vijay C. Chakravarthy was the cinematographer.

Release

The film was released on 18 October 2018, during the festival holidays; its pre-release business was estimated at ₹24 crore. A Hindi dub, Dumdaar Khiladi, was released on YouTube in July 2019.

Reception

Reviews were mixed. The Times of India called it a clean entertainer worth a festival outing, and Deccan Chronicle liked the funny first half and Prakash Raj’s scenes but not the music. Firstpost felt it had very little romance for a romantic drama, The New Indian Express found it predictable, and The Hindu called it middling apart from a few comic scenes.

Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata.