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Happy Days is a film of genre Drama directed by Sekhar Kammula released in USA on 28 september 2007 with Varun Sandesh
Happy Days (2007)
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Add to a movie listHappy Days is a 2007 Telugu film directed by Sekhar Kammula. The target audience for this movie was primarily the engineering college students in the Telugu speaking states. The Kannada remake was called Jolly days and in Tamil as Inidhu Inidhu by noted Indian actor Prakash Raj. The film won 6 Filmfare Awards South, and 3 Nandi Awards. The Hindi remake of Happy Days will be directed by Sekhar himself,and it will be co-produced by Salman Khan.
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Happy Days tells us a story that explores the lives of eight friends through the four years of their engineering course. Each one of them joins Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology with their own set of idiosyncrasies, eccentricities, beliefs and ideals. What starts off as a journey of individuals, slowly becomes a collective one over time. They bond over as they go through bullying seniors, stringent professors, intense examinations, over the top celebrations, love, betrayal, sacrifice and every other possible emotion that an individual can experience in a college. The movie portrays the mindset of a typical engineering student which helped youth to connect with the characters involved.Actors
Varun Sandesh
(Chandu)
Tamannaah Bhatia
(Madhu)
Nikhil Siddhartha
(Rajesh)
Amol Palekar
(College Principal)
Sonia Deepti
(Shravanthi (Shravs))
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