Ullasamga Utsahamga

Ullasamga Utsahamga (“Joyfully and Energetically”) is a 2008 Telugu romantic comedy written and directed by A. Karunakaran for Amruth Amarnath Arts. It introduced Yasho Sagar and Sneha Ullal to Telugu cinema, with G. V. Prakash Kumar composing the music. It was released on 18 July 2008 and became one of the year’s big successes.

What the story is about

Dhanalakshmi, or Dhana, is the only daughter of a wealthy landlord. After her mother’s death her father remarries, and her stepmother neglects her. Once her father dies, her only friend is a boy called Balaji, and he too leaves after school. When Dhana grows up and inherits the property, her stepmother tries to marry her off against her will, and Dhana runs away to a friend’s house in Hyderabad.

There she meets Aravind, a carefree garage owner’s son, who falls for her at once and later helps her escape when her stepmother tries to drag her home. Dhana becomes his friend but tells him she has loved Balaji since childhood and cannot imagine anyone else. When both of them end up heading to Kolkata, where Balaji is said to live, Aravind decides to help her find him.

Cast and crew

• Yasho Sagar as Aravind (voice dubbed by Sivaji)
• Sneha Ullal as Dhanalakshmi (voice dubbed by Sunitha)
• Chandra Mohan and Sudha as Aravind’s parents
• Prasad Babu as Dhanalakshmi’s father
• Kavitha as her stepmother
• Brahmanandam as the colony secretary
• Sunil as Malli Babu
• Suman Setty as Ganesh, Aravind’s friend
• L. B. Sriram as Subbayya, the servant

Writer and director: A. Karunakaran. Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar, with lyrics by Anantha Sriram. Runtime: 156 minutes.

Making the film

Yasho Sagar is the screen name of Bharath, son of the Kannada producer B. P. Somu. G. V. Prakash’s seven-song soundtrack was released on 7 May 2008.

Reviews, box office and awards

Critics found it pleasant. Jeevi of Idlebrain called it “a decent love story with some cute and cherishing moments”, and Rediff found it “watchable for its feel-good appeal”. It did very well commercially: Sify named it among the top five Telugu box-office films of 2008, and Wikipedia, citing Sify, gives a budget of ₹4 crore and a distributors’ share of ₹8–9 crore. Karunakaran won the Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer.

The film was dubbed into Malayalam as Ayyo Pavam, and remade in Kannada as Ullasa Utsaha (2010) and in Bangladesh as Er Beshi Bhalobasha Jay Na (2013).

Where to watch Ullasamga Utsahamga

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