Nuvvu Naaku Nachav

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Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (transl. “I like you”) is a 2001 Telugu romantic comedy directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar, who wrote it with Trivikram Srinivas, and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore under Sri Sravanthi Movies. Venkatesh plays a small-town graduate who falls for his host’s engaged daughter, played by Aarthi Agarwal in her Telugu debut, with Prakash Raj as her father and Sunil in a breakout comic role. Released on 6 September 2001, it was a critical and commercial success, won five Nandi Awards, and is still one of the most loved comedies of its era.

What the story is about

Venky, an unemployed graduate from Anakapalli, is packed off to Hyderabad by his father, Sekharam, to find a job, and stays with Sekharam’s childhood friend, Srinivasa Moorthy. Moorthy’s daughter Nandini, “Nandu”, is engaged to Prasad, a software engineer in the US, and Venky throws himself into helping with the wedding preparations. He and Nandu start out squabbling, become friends, and then something more, but Venky will not risk the lifelong friendship between the two fathers. With the wedding date approaching, the film plays the comedy of a household in full swing against two people pretending not to feel what they feel. We will leave how it resolves to the film.

Cast and crew

• Venkatesh as C. Venkateswarlu “Venky”
• Aarthi Agarwal as Nandini “Nandu”
• Prakash Raj as Srinivasa Murthy, Nandu’s father
• Chandra Mohan as Sekharam, Venky’s father
• Suhasini as Sujatha, Nandu’s aunt
• Sudha as Lakshmi, Nandu’s mother
• M. S. Narayana as Guru Murthy “Chanti”, Nandu’s uncle
• Sunil as Banthi, the household servant
• Brahmanandam as Brahmamurthy, a photographer
• Shiju as Prasad, Nandu’s fiancé
• Tanikella Bharani as Ashok, Prasad’s father

Director: K. Vijaya Bhaskar. Writers: K. Vijaya Bhaskar and Trivikram Srinivas. Music: Koti (Aditya Music). Runtime: 180 minutes.

Making of the film

After Nuvve Kavali (2000), Ravi Kishore had already paid Vijaya Bhaskar and Trivikram an advance for their next film and asked for a family story, as Andhra Jyothy’s Chitrajyothy recounted in a 2022 retrospective. Tarun was discussed for the lead before Venkatesh’s dates became available; Trisha and Gajala were considered before Aarthi Agarwal was chosen. Prakash Raj was the producer’s choice for the father, and because the actor was under a ban by the Movie Artists Association at the time, scenes without him were shot first and he completed his part in 17 days once the ban was lifted. Brahmanandam’s photographer, inspired by Mr. Bean, was added to liven up the second half.

Most of the film takes place in one house, a set built by art director Peketi Ranga at Ramanaidu Studios for around ₹60 lakh, according to HMTV. The song “Naa Choope Ninu” was shot in New Zealand. Chitrajyothy puts the cost at ₹4.5 crore excluding Venkatesh’s ₹2.5 crore fee. The finished film ran over three hours, and Ravi Kishore refused to cut a single scene.

Music

Koti’s soundtrack went triple platinum. “Okkasari Cheppaleva” is based on Robert Miles’s “Fable”, and Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry wrote 60 versions of its opening lines before the first was chosen. “Naa Choope Ninu” was Sriram Prabhu’s first playback song for Venkatesh.

Reviews and box office

Idlebrain.com rated it 4/5: “The strength of the film is Venky, Aarti, the comedy dialogues and sensible direction.” Sify (3/5) was cooler, citing a “lack of freshness” and a “weak screenplay” and likening the film to a “wedding album”.

Audiences disagreed. It opened on 113 prints across 147 centres, the widest release of Venkatesh’s career at the time. Idlebrain reported a first-week distributors’ share of ₹2.63 crore, and its box-office record for Venkatesh puts the final share at ₹18 crore, then the third-highest for a Telugu film; T2BLive gives the same total. It ran 100 days in 57 centres.

Awards and remakes

Nandi Awards went to the film for Best Home-viewing Feature Film, Suhasini for Best Supporting Actress, Savitha Reddy for Best Female Dubbing Artist, Trivikram Srinivas for Best Dialogue Writer and Suchitra for Best Choreographer. It was remade in Tamil as Vaseegara (2003) and in Kannada as Gowramma (2005).

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