Review: Happy Happygaa..

Varun Sandesh, who made his acting debut in Happy Days of Sekhar Kammula, was initially blessed with another immediate success, Kotha Bangaru Lokam which helped him make an impression in the Telugu film industry. However, he failed to repeat his magic in next ventures and tasted failure with films like Evaraina Epudaina, Kurradu and Maro Charitra.

After a brief gap, he signed up for Happy Happygaa by debutante director Priya Saran. It was the director's supreme ability, which made the film worth watching, and gave the actor a reason to smile.

Santosh (Varun) is an orphan, who works as a delivery boy. Once, Santosh gets an order from a couple (MS Narayana and Rajitha) who wish to invite their niece Puja (Vega), who lives in the UK.

Puja likes Santosh's attitude and falls for him. But soon, he comes to know that Puja's opinion on love is very different from his. So, Santosh tells Puja that he had written his dream girl 50 love letters and for her benefit reads them out.

When Puja expresses the desire to see this  'dream girl', Santosh shows a girl in a white chudidar, completely different from what Puja is. Puja meets Priya (Saranya) and reveals Santosh's secret love for  her and hands over the love letters.

Puja makes it clear that it is a one-sided love. Impressed with his love letters, Priya also loses her heart to Santosh. Puja shows elation at  the union of Priya and Santosh.

The story gets interesting when it so turns out that Priya is the sister of a big mafia don Suri (Bommali Ravi). However, Priya swears her undying love for Santosh to her brother. 

The highlight of the film is the impressive subject, the way of narration, the perfect presentation of the subject on the celluloid, the directorial ability to present it in a way to impress the audience.

It is an out and out director's film, as he does not lose grip on the story at any given point and the audience do not feel that the film is getting stretched a tad too much.

Despite the slow paced narration, the director maintains good pace and tempo in running the film.

Music by Manisharma is another highlight as almost all the songs are full of melody. It is Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry, who should be patted for penning excellent lyrics.

The movie, of course , has an item number. Cinematography by Venky A Darshan is adequate, while editing by Krishna Reddy is okay. Dialogues by Anil Ravipudi are good in parts.

As a whole, the technicians team that worked for the film should be complimented for excellent work.

Vega, who had the shades of Anjala Jhaveri, gives a good performance. Her photogenic face and hourglass figure fills the glamour slot too. However, there is no exposure of any kind by the heroine. Saranya, as usual had maintained the girl-next door image. She too does complete justice to her role. After a long time, Ali manages to tickle our funny bones .

The minus point in the film is the hero. Varun Sandesh completely failed to measure up to  the expectations. Though he has a lot of experience  to his credit, he fails to portray basic emotions. He still needs to work heavily on dialogue modulation and histrionics.Despite a little slow narration in the first, the movies is saved on the whole .

Many directors handle different love subjects but only a few directors can make the audience taste the real feel of love on the screen.

Debutant Priya Saran proved that a director should have grip on the subject and should have the ability to visualise it to  himself before presenting it on the screen. The basic point in the film is getting loved by some is greater than loving someone. The way of presentation of this storyline was quite different and impressive.