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Happy Days (2007)

Happy Days poster
Original title
హ్యాపీ డేస్
Directed by
Sekhar Kammula
Genre
soundtrack
Country
India
Runtime
2h 33m
Rated
G
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of eight diverse students spend four years in an engineering college. They experience friendships, rivalries, and romantic relationships while growing into adulthood.

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What happens

Happy Days is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language musical coming of age film written, produced and directed by Sekhar Kammula. The film features Varun Sandesh, Tamannaah Bhatia, Rahul Haridas, Nikhil Siddharth, Vamsee Krishna, Sonia Deepti, Gayatri Rao, and Monali Chowdhary in the lead roles. The film follows eight diverse students pursuing engineering at CBIT navigating their four years of college life. It explores their friendships, rivalries, romantic relationships, and self-discovery, capturing the essence of campus experiences and the transition into adulthood. The film received a positive response and was a huge box office success, redefining the coming-of-age college drama in Telugu cinema. The film won three Nandi Awards, and six Filmfare Awards. Happy Days is widely considered a modern classic of Telugu cinema, holding significant cultural impact, notably influencing many students to pursue engineering. The film was dubbed in Malayalam with same title and was remade in Kannada as Jolly Days and in Tamil as Inidhu Inidhu by actor Prakash Raj. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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