Hungama

Hungama is a 2005 Telugu comedy directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy, who also composed its music. Ali and Venu Madhav play the leads, and the film is a remake of the Malayalam comedy Mattupetti Machan (1998). It was released on 28 April 2005 and runs 140 minutes.

What the story is about

Pedda Babu and Chinna Babu are stepbrothers who live next door to each other, each with a pretty daughter. When Balaraju goes to Chinna Babu’s house with a marriage proposal and is insulted, he decides to take revenge by making sure Chinna Babu’s daughter Vidya ends up with the worst possible husband. His search turns up two candidates: Balu, a fraudster who sells herbs, and Badri, a pimp. Both pass themselves off as sons of a wealthy zamindar to impress the two fathers and set about winning over Vidya and her cousin Divya. The comedy runs on the mistaken identities that follow.

Cast and crew

• Ali as Badri
• Venu Madhav as Balu
• Abhinayashree as Divya and Jyothi as Vidya
• Kota Srinivasa Rao as Pedda Babu
• Tanikella Bharani as Chinna Babu
• Sunil as Balaraju
• Brahmanandam, M. S. Narayana, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Raghu Babu, Narsing Yadav and Gundu Hanumantha Rao in supporting roles

Director and music: S. V. Krishna Reddy. Songs include “Muthamma Muthamma”, “Manikya Veena” and “Chiru Chiru”.

Reviews

Critics were unimpressed. Sify called it “yet another comedy that fails to impress”, “nothing but slapstick galore with mistaken identities and lot of double meaning dialogues”. Idlebrain gave it 2.75 out of 5, calling the first half mediocre and the second a little better.

Box office

Audiences were kinder than critics. The Hindu’s review of Telugu cinema in 2005 is cited by Wikipedia for Hungama being a box-office success. No collection figures are given.

Where to watch Hungama

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