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{{short description|1987 film}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Aha! Naa Pellanta!!
| image = Aha Naa-Pellanta 1987 poster.jpg
| caption = Poster
| screenplay = Jandhyala
| based_on = {{based on|''Satyam Gaari Illu'' (novel)|Adivishnu}}
| producer = [[D. Ramanaidu]]
| director = [[Jandhyala]]
| starring = [[Rajendra Prasad (actor)|Rajendra Prasad]]<br />[[Rajani (actress)|Rajani]]
| music = [[Ramesh Naidu]]
| cinematography = [[S. Gopal Reddy]]
| editing = B Satyam
| studio = [[Suresh Productions]]
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1987|11|27}}
| runtime = 147 minutes
| country = India
| language = Telugu
| budget = {{INR|16 [[lakh]]}}<ref name="sak" />
| gross = {{Estimation}} {{INR|5 [[crore]]}}<ref name="sak" />
}}
'''''Aha! Naa Pellanta!!'''''{{Efn|Spelt as ''Ahana Pellanta'' on the CBFC certificate.}} ({{translation|Yeah! It’s my wedding!!}}) is a 1987 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[comedy drama]] film written and directed by [[Jandhyala]], and produced by [[D. Ramanaidu]] under his banner [[Suresh Productions]]. The film stars [[Rajendra Prasad (actor)|Rajendra Prasad]] and [[Rajani (actress)|Rajani]] while [[Kota Srinivasa Rao]], [[Nutan Prasad]], and [[Brahmanandam]] play supporting roles. The film has music composed by [[Ramesh Naidu]]. An adaptation of Adivishnu's novel ''Satyam Gaari Illu'' ({{translation|Mr. Satyam's House}}), the film's title is based on a song from the [[epic fantasy]] film ''[[Mayabazar]]'' (1957).<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 February 2015 |title=The Star maker |url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-02-22/The-Star-maker-133035 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706053254/http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-02-22/The-Star-maker-133035 |archive-date=6 July 2015 |access-date=6 May 2015 |website=[[The Hans India]]}}</ref> The film released on 27 November 1987.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=ఎవర్ గ్రీన్ కామెడీ సినిమా..@31 ఇయర్స్! |url=https://telugu.asianetnews.com/entertainment/aha-naa-pellanta-released-31-years-ego-piurpn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126182424/https://telugu.asianetnews.com/entertainment/aha-naa-pellanta-released-31-years-ego-piurpn |archive-date=26 November 2020 |access-date=2020-12-11 |website=[[Asianet News]] |language=te}}</ref>

''Aha! Naa Pellanta!!'' is considered one of the best comedy films of all time in [[Telugu cinema]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=M. L. |first=Narasimham |date=29 June 2001 |title=End of a comedy era |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/06/29/stories/0929022g.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604045757/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2001/06/29/stories/0929022g.htm |archive-date=4 June 2015 |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pandya |first=Haresh |date=2001-08-03 |title=Obituary: Jandhyala Sastri |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/04/guardianobituaries.filmnews |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en}}</ref> Kota Srinivasa Rao's character as a miser and his mannerism "Naakenti?" ({{Translation|What's in it for me?}}) became famous.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2017-09-17 |title=పండుగ చూస్కో |url=https://www.sakshi.com/news/funday/hundred-sixteen-years-telugu-film-industry-507568 |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=Sakshi |language=te |archive-date=24 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024005756/https://www.sakshi.com/news/funday/hundred-sixteen-years-telugu-film-industry-507568 |url-status=live }}</ref> Brahmanandam's role as 'Ara Gundu' received wide appreciation from both critics and audience and it became his [[breakthrough role]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gopalrao |first=Griddaluru |date=4 December 1987 |title=సమీక్ష: ఆహా నా పెళ్ళంటా! |work=[[Zamin Ryot]] |url=http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1987/Dec/4-dec-1987.pdf |access-date=11 December 2020 |archive-date=13 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913140015/http://zaminryot.com/pdf/1987/Dec/4-dec-1987.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-01 |title=Birthday Special! Brahmanandam: Tracing the journey of the popular comedian in Tollywood so far |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/birthday-special-brahmanandam-tracing-the-journey-of-the-popular-comedian-in-tollywood-so-far/photostory/67790174.cms |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=The Times of India |language=en |archive-date=10 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191110161810/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/telugu/movies/news/birthday-special-brahmanandam-tracing-the-journey-of-the-popular-comedian-in-tollywood-so-far/photostory/67790174.cms |url-status=live }}</ref>

Made on a budget of {{Indian Rupee|}}16 [[lakh]], the film grossed over {{Indian Rupee|}}5 [[crore]] at the box office and became a blockbuster.<ref name="sak">{{Cite web |date=2017-09-17 |title=పండుగ చూస్కో |url=https://www.sakshi.com/news/funday/hundred-sixteen-years-telugu-film-industry-507568 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024005756/https://www.sakshi.com/news/funday/hundred-sixteen-years-telugu-film-industry-507568 |archive-date=24 October 2020 |access-date=11 December 2020 |website=[[Sakshi (newspaper)|Sakshi]] |language=te}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Producer D. Ramanaidu mentioned that the profits from the film helped him in the establishment of Ramanaidu Studios.<ref name=":1" /> The film was remade in [[Kannada]] as ''[[Challenge Gopalakrishna]]'' (1990).

==Plot==
Krishna Murthy, the son of industrialist Kasthuri Satyanarayana, leads an eccentric competitive lifestyle with his father. Murthy has been raised by his father in luxury, ever since his mother died in childbirth. Due to his wife's ostracism from her family, Satyanarayana had made a promise with her before her death that when Murthy gets married, it will be with consent from both families. As such, Satyanarayana imagines every girl he sees as a potential suitor for Murthy. While attending his friend's wedding, Murthy meets Padma. He gradually falls in love with her, but worries about his father's response. After his initial attempts to notify him are thwarted by his servant Appanna, a staunch supporter of his father, Murthy succeeds in having his father see him with Padma. After confronting Murthy, Satyanarayana reveals that Padma is the daughter of Lakshmipati, a notorious miser in the adjacent village, and that wooing him for Padma's hand is not easy. Not willing to accept defeat, Murthy wagers with his father that if he can make Lakshmipati accept him as his son-in-law, he will have to accept defeat, and leaves for the village. Murthy reaches Lakshmipati's village and meets ''Aragundu,'' Lakshmipati's long suffering bonded labor. After being caught by ''Aragundu'', Murthy decides to rent out in the adjacent living space that Lakshmipati's neighbour Subba Rao lives in, asking his family to allow him room as one of their own. Murthy then begins the process of wooing Lakshmipati by acting like a miser himself. He claims to be the local head of the All India Miser Community, and leads Lakshmipati into a series of comical acts under the guise of saving money, which also include deterring any prospective suitors for Padma, who Lakshmipati continually blackmails by threatening to kill himself. Murthy also offers to coach Sundaram, Lakshmipati's son, who's in love with Subba Rao's sister Sita.

Subba Rao catches Sundaram and Sita together one day and hits her until Murthy intervenes. He tells Subba Rao that he's taking his anger on the wrong person and offers to pay the dowry for Sita and Sundaram's wedding on Subba Rao's behalf. Meanwhile, after Murthy successfully manages to convince Lakshmipati to give his daughter's hand in marriage, Satyanarayana shows up under the guise of seeking Lakshmipati for a business partnership, and tries to sabotage Murthy's efforts. On the day of the wedding, Lakshmipati declares to everyone that the wedding is void because the dowry wasn't paid. Lakshmipati also insults and assaults Murthy when he tries to intervene, earning Satyanarayana's ire. Despite the setback, Murthy refuses to give up, and asks his father for one last chance. ''Aragundu'', having grown tired of Lakshmipati's antics, resigns and joins up with Murthy. Both of them convince an earlier suitor, Kukkuteswarao, into offering Lakshmipati reverse dowry for Padma's hand. Additionally, Subba Rao's transport company goes on strike, driving their buses through the village, creating a nuisance until Sundaram and Sita's wedding ceremony is conducted. Consequently, four other suitors offer increasing reverse dowry amounts for Padma, all of which Lakshmipati agrees to. On the day of the wedding ceremony, all four grooms turn up and accuse Lakshmipati of deceiving them. Padma confronts her father over his greed blinding him to his daughter's welfare, and his treatment of her like a commodity rather than a human. Lakshmipati's wife joins in and offers to kill themselves so that he can sell their bodies to science for money, which he always wanted. His eyes opened, Lakshmipati realizes the error of his ways, and requests the grooms to choose among themselves who would be marrying Padma. The grooms instead tell him that there's one person who they all unanimously vote to marry Padma: Murthy, which Lakshmipati agrees to. Showing up at the wedding ceremony, an elated Satyanaraya happily accepts his defeat, and reveals his relationship with Murthy to a shocked Lakshmipati, who in turn shocks Satyanarayana more by offering to pay for refreshments.

An epilogue states that Lakshmipati passed peacefully after donating his wealth to charity, while Murthy and Padma had a son, who Murthy is shocked to discover has inherited his grandfather's miserly behavior.

==Cast==
{{colbegin}}
* [[Rajendra Prasad (actor)|Rajendra Prasad]] as Krishna Murthy
* [[Rajani (actress)|Rajani]] as Padma
* [[Kota Srinivasa Rao]] as Lakshmipati
* [[Nutan Prasad]] as Satyanarayana
* [[Rallapalli (actor)|Rallapalli]] as Appanna
* [[Bramhanandam]] as Govindu a.k.a. Ara Gundu
* [[Suthi Veerabhadra Rao]] as Collector Venkat Rao
* [[Suthi Velu]] as Pinaasi Sangham Head
* [[Subhalekha Sudhakar]] as Kukkuteswara Rao
* [[Babu Mohan]] as a member of RTC bus union
* Vidyasagar as Subba Rao
* [[Gundu Hanumantha Rao]] as Bridegroom's father
* [[Ashok Kumar (Telugu actor)|Ashok Kumar]] as Kaviraju, Hotel manager
* [[Chitti Babu Punyamurthula|Chitti Babu]] as Chitti, Krishna Murthy's mate
* [[Jenny (actor)|Jenny]] as Hotel server
* [[Telangana Shakuntala]] as Hostel warden
* [[Sumithra (actress)|Sumithra]] as Rajyam
* [[Dubbing Janaki]] as Janaki
* Sandhya as Sita
* Jhansi
* Vishwas as Sundaram
* [[Kuyili (actress)|Kuyili]] as a special appearance as jogging girl
* [[Savitri (actress)|Savitri]] as a special appearance as Sasirekha from [[Mayabazar]] in the song "Aha Na Pellanta"
* [[S. V. Ranga Rao]] as a special appearance as Ghatotkacha from [[Mayabazar]] in the song "Aha Na Pellanta"
{{colend}}

== Soundtrack ==
Music composed by [[Ramesh Naidu]]. Music released on AVM Audio Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Aha Naa Pellanta (1987) |url=https://www.raaga.com/telugu/movie/aha-naa-pellanta-songs-A0004052 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225165302/https://www.raaga.com/telugu/movie/aha-naa-pellanta-songs-A0004052 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |access-date=2 May 2022 |website=[[Raaga.com]]}}</ref>
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!S.No!!Song title!!Lyrics !!Singers !!length
|-
|1
|"Thikkana Padinadi"
|[[Jonnavithhula Ramalingeswara Rao]]
|[[S. P. Balasubrahmanyam]]
|5:05
|-
|2
|"Kasthuri Rangayya"
|M. R. S. Sastry
|S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, [[P. Susheela]]
|3:54
|-
|3
|"Idi Srungara"
|[[Veturi]]
|S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, [[Vani Jayaram]]
|5:45
|-
|4
|"Peenasi Aina"
|Jonnavithhula Ramalingeswara Rao
|S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
|3:46
|-
|5
|"Swagatham"
|Veturi
|[[Mano (singer)|Mano]], Vani Jayaram
|3:29
|-
|6
|"Aha Na Pellanta"
|Ghantasala
|[[P. Susheela]], Ghantasala
|2:33
|}

==Reception==
Griddaluru Gopalrao of ''[[Zamin Ryot]]'', writing his review on 4 December 1987, appreciated the way Jandhyala imbibed humour in the film's dialogues, "Though the comedy scenes are far from reality at times, they are very close in making the audience laugh [<nowiki/>''[[sic]]'']," Gopalrao added.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gopalrao |first=Griddaluru |date=4 December 1987 |title=సమీక్ష: ఆహా నా పెళ్ళంటా! |language=te |work=[[Zamin Ryot]] |url=http://www.zaminryot.com/pdf/1987/Dec/4-dec-1987.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=11 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913140015/http://zaminryot.com/pdf/1987/Dec/4-dec-1987.pdf |archive-date=13 September 2016}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Jahnavi Reddy of ''[[The News Minute]]'', wrote that the film is noted for its dialogues and unique insults, which came to be used commonly in conversations. "While more recent films and their dialogues are frequently woven into conversations, there has been a big change in the kind of Telugu used in these popular dialogue," she added.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reddy |first=Jahnavi |date=2020-07-17 |title=Jandhyala's 'Aha Naa-Pellanta!': A comedy that still influences Telugu pop culture |url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/jandhyala-s-aha-naa-pellanta-comedy-still-influences-telugu-pop-culture-128920 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220172054/https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/jandhyala-s-aha-naa-pellanta-comedy-still-influences-telugu-pop-culture-128920 |archive-date=20 December 2020 |access-date=2020-12-11 |website=[[The News Minute]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0249336|Aha! Naa Pellanta!!}}
{{Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry}}

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[[Category:Films about Indian weddings]]
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[[Category:Films scored by Ramesh Naidu]]
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