Friday, August 22, 2008

‘Happy Days’ of our lives

This might be a bit out of line from what you have seen on the site till now. But exceptional efforts call for exceptional circumstances and exceptions have to be made to accommodate things that we feel you should not be missing out on. That cinema has no barriers of language is a fact that many of us are not aware of until we come across movies that appeal to us in spite of the words being spoken on screen being alien to us, most of us don’t get that opportunity and that way miss out on some exquisite piece of art unless someone decides to remake it in a language that we are comfortable with. Imagine, Chandramukhi came almost 12 years after that story was first realized on screen in Malayalam. 12 years is a lot of time but we must be thankful that it came, better late than never. This one is being written so that many of you don’t miss out on reliving the most ‘Happy Days’ of your life, that trip of nostalgia that we don’t get tired of no matter how many times we take it. This is about the most ‘Happy Days’ of our lives. This is about happy Days, the movie.


Many of you would have heard about this movie, maybe even know that this is by now a huge hit. But most of you unaware of the goings on in Tollywood (Telugu filmdom) might not have even heard of such a movie. Well, that’s why we are here, to tell you that Happy Days is here. It is a Telugu film but talks a universal language, a language that is alien to none, the language of friendship set in the campus, where all of us lived out the most colorful period of our lives. It takes us back to those days, the days of making friends, getting ragged, learning to stand up for ourselves, flirting, dating and of course, learning, studying and passing. It takes us back to those days when we lived like a family with people whom we had not even known before, people who converged at one place with hopes of making it big in life.


Happy Days Movie
that appeal to us in spite of the words being spoken on screen being alien to us, most of us don’t get that opportunity and that way miss out on some exquisite piece of art unless someone decides to remake it in a language that we are comfortable with. Imagine, Chandramukhi came almost 12 years after that story was first realized on screen in Malayalam. 12 years is a lot of time but we must be thankful that it came, better late than never. This one is being written so that many of you don’t miss out on reliving the most ‘Happy Days’ of your life, that trip of nostalgia that we don’t get tired of no matter how many times we take it. This is about the most ‘Happy Days’ of our lives. This is about happy Days, the movie.
Happy Days Movie


Many of you would have heard about this movie, maybe even know that this is by now a huge hit. But most of you unaware of the goings on in Tollywood (Telugu filmdom) might not have even heard of such a movie. Well, that’s why we are here, to tell you that Happy Days is here. It is a Telugu film but talks a universal language, a language that is alien to none, the language of friendship set in the campus, where all of us lived out the most colorful period of our lives. It takes us back to those days, the days of making friends, getting ragged, learning to stand up for ourselves, flirting, dating and of course, learning, studying and passing. It takes us back to those days when we lived like a family with people whom we had not even known before, people who converged at one place with hopes of making it big in life.

The most endearing aspect of the movie is the simplicity with which it has been shot, the refreshingly natural treatment to a subject that could have easily been spiced up like in any other movie. ‘Happy Days’ stands apart because it has chosen to look from the perspective of a student, just like all of us once were. It sees all the sarcastic points about professors that we once saw as students, it looks at all the things that we looked forward to as students like intervals and the culturals. It also shows rightly that while we may have had quite a few fights and sour incidents in our years at college, when we come out we are all friends, we remain united. The movie also shows about how we learnt to accept and put up with differences in life and that no two persons are the same and friendship is not about accepting differences and not trying to change the person who is your friend. It also shows how stupid we were to make mountains out of molehills with small arguments that could have been settled with just a smile.

The movie begins with a bunch of youngsters, total strangers to each other entering an engineering college and finishes with their

last day in college. Happy Days shows the bonds of love and friendship forged in those four intervening years. It shows, amazingly well, how the bonds that we forged mostly unintentionally will remain strong for as long as we live. ‘Happy Days’ is about pure 24 carat friendship and 100% fun. Watch it for the love of your days at college, to relive those years that will never be yours again and for those still in your Happy Days, this movie will help you realize the value of what you are having right now. Now with Prakash Raj having acquired the remake rights of this movie we are in for a treat. As said before, cinema has no language, at least friendship has no language and this one is about the universal language that is friendship.

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