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{{Short description|2006 Indian Telugu-language film}}
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{{Infobox film
{{Infobox film
| name          = Happy
| name          = Happy
| image          = Happy film poster.jpg
| image          = Happy 2006 poster.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| starring      = [[Allu Arjun]]<br />[[Genelia D'Souza]]<br />[[Manoj Bajpayee]]
| starring      = [[Allu Arjun]]<br />[[Genelia D'Souza]]
| director      = [[A. Karunakaran]]
| director      = [[A. Karunakaran]]
| producer      = [[Allu Aravind]]
| screenplay    = A. Karunakaran<br />[[Kona Venkat]] (dialogues)
| screenplay    = A. Karunakaran<br />[[Kona Venkat]] (dialogues)
| story          = [[Radha Mohan]]
| based_on      = ''[[Azhagiya Theeye]]''
| producer      = [[Allu Aravind]]
| editing        = [[Anthony (film editor)|Anthony]]
| editing        = [[Anthony (film editor)|Anthony]]
| studio        = [[Geetha Arts]]
| studio        = [[Geetha Arts]]
| distributor    = Geetha Arts<br>[[UTV Motion Pictures|Disney UTV]]
| distributor    = [[UTV Motion Pictures]]
| released      = {{Film date|df=y|2006|1|27}}
| released      = {{Film date|df=y|2006|1|27}}
| runtime        = 152 minutes
| runtime        = 152 minutes
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| cinematography = [[R. D. Rajasekhar]]
| cinematography = [[R. D. Rajasekhar]]
| country        = India
| country        = India
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'''''Happy''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[romantic comedy]] film directed by [[A. Karunakaran]]. It was produced by [[Allu Aravind]] under [[Geetha Arts]]. The film stars [[Allu Arjun]], [[Genelia D'Souza]], and [[Manoj Bajpayee]]. The music was scored by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]. The film is an official remake of [[Radha Mohan]]'s [[Tamil language|Tamil]] film ''[[Azhagiya Theeye]]'' (2004).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Happy (2006) {{!}} Happy Movie {{!}} Happy Telugu Movie Cast & Crew, Release Date, Review, Photos, Videos|url=https://www.filmibeat.com/telugu/movies/happy.html|access-date=2021-06-15|website=FilmiBeat|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-02-28|title=Bunny boy is now his own man - Kannada News|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/bunny-boy-is-now-his-own-man-kannada-news-20709.html|access-date=2021-05-23|website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref>
'''''Happy''''' is a 2006 Indian [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-language [[romantic comedy film|romantic comedy film]] directed by [[A. Karunakaran]] and produced by [[Allu Aravind]] under his production [[Geetha Arts]] banner. The film stars [[Allu Arjun]] and [[Genelia D'Souza|Genelia]] in the lead roles, while [[Manoj Bajpayee]],  [[Deepak Shirke]], [[Brahmanandam]],[[Kishore (actor, born 1974)|Kishore]] and [[Tanikella Bharani]] appear in supporting roles. The music was scored by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], while the cinematography and editing were handled by [[R. D. Rajasekhar]] and [[Anthony (film editor)|Anthony]].


Karunankaran scripted the film with dialogues by [[Kona Venkat]]. Released on 27 January 2006, the film was not commercially successful.<ref name="idlebrain.com">{{Cite web|title=Allu Arjun interview - Telugu film director|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/celeb/int1/alluarjun.html|access-date=2021-05-19|website=www.idlebrain.com}}</ref>
''Happy'' was released on 27 January 2006 and became a commercial failure at the box office. However, the film was later dubbed and released in Malayalam as ''Happy Be Happy'', and it was a blockbuster in [[Kerala]] running successfully for over 175 days. It was remade in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as '' [[Bolo Na Tumi Aamar]] ''(2010). It was also remade in [[Odia language|Odia]] as ''Loafer'' (2011). Since its release, ''Happy'' has gained a cult following and has been hailed a favorite for many in Allu Arjun's and Karunakaran's respective filmographies.


==Plot==
== Plot ==
Madhumati is the daughter of a politician who turns out to be a [[martinet]] at home with his attachment to power. He believes that his daughter's behavior would influence his caste politics, so he tries to keep her from continuing her [[MBBS#India|MBBS]] as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhumathi comes to their third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity and without involving in any affairs of love. Her focus is completely on studies. She goes for a medical camp and her classmates to [[Araku Valley]] where she meets Bunny randomly in the woods. Her initial encounter with him is funny and playful. Bunny comes to [[Hyderabad]] and joins in a pizza shop as a delivery boy and continues his MBA by attending evening classes.
Madhumathi "Madhu" is the daughter of [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] Suryanarayana, who is a [[martinet]] at home with his attachment to power. Surya believes that his daughter's behavior would influence his caste politics, where he tries to keep her from continuing her [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|MBBS]] as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhu comes to her third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity, focusing completely on studies and not being involved in relationships and love affairs.


In an incident, Madhumathi’s father thinks that his daughter is dating someone and comes to believe that it's none other than Bunny. Due to this, he decides to get her married to a person of his own caste Arvind, who is settled as the [[Deputy Commissioner|DCP]].
Madhu goes for a medical camp with her classmates to [[Araku Valley]], where she meets Bunny Bhasker in the woods. Madhu's initial encounter with Bunny is funny and playful. Bunny comes to [[Hyderabad]] and joins in a pizza shop as a delivery boy and continues his [[Master of Business Administration|MBA]] by attending evening classes. In an incident, Surya assumes that Madhu is dating Bunny, where he decides to get her married to [[Deputy Commissioner of Police|DCP]] Arvind. Madhu is more attached to her studies than marriage, where she goes to Bunny and blames him for her marriage. Learning this, Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets Arvind, where he lies to Arvind and convinces him that he is in love with Madhu. Arvind believes the latter and cancels the wedding, thus angering Surya.


Madhumati is more attached to her studies than marriage. She goes to Bunny and places the blame on him saying that he was the reason for her marriage. Knowing that Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets Arvind. Bunny lies to Arvind and convinces him that he is in love with Madhumathi. Arvind believes the latter and cancels the wedding. Later on, Madhumathi's father plans to get her married to his friend's son, an illiterate, and doesn't want his wife to be educated. Her father visits DCP Arvind and gives him the marriage invitation. Shocked Arvind meets Bunny and gets him married to Madhumathi in a registrar's office. He also gives his new flat for the couple to live in.
Later, Surya plans to get her married to his friend's son Subba Rao, where he visits DCP Arvind and gives him the marriage invitation. Shocked, Aravind meets Bunny and gets him married to Madhu in a registrar's office, where he also gives his new flat for the couple. Madhu becomes estranged from her family and ends up living with Bunny, who Bunny ends up living with Madhu as he lost his job. Throughout their times together, mishaps and comedic events happen, where Bunny ends up falling for Madhu. Being separated from her family, Madhu has no way of paying for fees. One day, Madhu expresses this to Bunny, who gets into the film industry as an action choreographer and performs dangerous stunts in order to pay her semester fees.


Madhumathi becomes estranged from her family and, in another series of events, ends up living with Bunny (or rather Bunny ends up living with her, as he loses his job). Throughout their times together, mishaps and comedic events happen; Bunny ends up falling for Madhumati. Being separated from her family, Madhumati has no way of paying for fees, and one day, she expresses this to Bunny. Bunny gets into the film industry as a stuntman taking a high risk to his life to pay the semester fees of Madhumathi’s MBBS.
Madhu scores lowest marks in a subject and gets negative feedback from her professor. To focus on her studies, Madhu scorns Bunny and wants him to be out of the house. Madhu focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS degree with honors. On the day of her graduation, Madhu admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny, where her friend reveals about Bunny performing dangerous stunts for her college fees. Madhu's friend reveals that Bunny had told her not to reveal this to Madhu and had told her that he is going back to his home in [[Vishakhapatnam]]. With regret, Madhu tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the railway station.


Madhumathi scores low in a subject and gets negative feedback from her professor. To focus on her studies, she scorns Bunny and wants him to be out of the house. Madhumathi then focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS degree with honors. On the day of her graduation, she admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny. Her friend reveals that Bunny risked his life to pay her college tuition fee by doing dangerous stunts. He told her not to tell Madhumathi, and he is going back to Vizag that day. With regret, Madhumati tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the train station. On the way there she gets caught by a roadblock set up by a policeman who is her father's nemesis. As she was giving a lift to a sex worker (she didn't know at the time), she is jailed under prostitution charges. Soon, her father is arrested as he storms the station and slaps the police who arrested her in a rage of fury. She manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the inmates, and Bunny comes to the station. Bunny also had an incident with the policeman who arrested Madhumati as he once berated him in public for smoking in a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and begins to fight with the police. The police and Bunny have a long and bloody fight. DCP Arvind eventually comes and stops the fight. Bunny then tells that ACP Ratnam falsely arrested Madhumathi. Realizing how much the two love each other, Arvind allows the police to release Madhumathi from jail. He asks Bunny and Mathumathi to leave and says that he'll take care of everything. The couple unites.
On the way there, Madhu gets arrested under prostitution charges by Surya's nemesis [[Assistant commissioner of police|ACP]] Ratnam as she unknowingly gave a lift to a sex worker. Surya storms into the police station and slaps Ratnam for arresting Madhu, but Surya also gets arrested. Madhu manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the inmates, where Bunny arrives to the station. Bunny also had an incident with Ratnam as he once berated him in public for smoking in a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and has a long and bloody fight with Ratnam and the police until Aravind intervenes and stops the fight. Aravind asks Bunny and Madhu to leave and tells that he will take care of everything. Bunny and Madhu finally reunite with each other.


==Cast==
== Cast ==
{{colbegin}}
{{Cast listing|
* [[Allu Arjun]] as Bunny aka Bhasker  
* [[Allu Arjun]] as Bunny Bhasker
* [[Genelia D'Souza]] as Madhumati (Bunny's love interest and girlfriend)  
* [[Genelia D'Souza]] as Madhumathi "Madhu" (Kantamma)
* [[Manoj Bajpayee]] as [[Deputy Commissioner|DCP]] Arvind
* [[Manoj Bajpayee]] as [[Deputy commissioner of police (India)|Deputy Commissioner]] Aravind Bhasker [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
* [[Kishore (actor, born 1974)|Kishore]] as [[Assistant Commissioner of Police (India)|ACP]] Ratnam
* [[Kishore (actor, born 1974)|Kishore]] as [[Assistant Commissioner of Police (India)|ACP]] Ratna Naidu [[Indian Police Service|IPS]]
* [[Deepak Shirke]] as Madhumati's father
* [[Deepak Shirke]] as [[Member of Legislative Assembly|MLA]] Suryanarayana, Madhu's father
* [[Tanikella Bharani]] as Subba Rao
* [[Tanikella Bharani]] as Subba Rao, Suryanarayana's friend
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Appala Naidu
* [[Brahmanandam]] as Appala Naidu
* [[Seetha (actress)|Seetha]] as Madhumati's mother
* [[Rama Prabha]] as Madhumati's grandmother
* [[Rama Prabha]] as Madhumati's grandmother
* [[Suman Setty]] as Bunny's friend
* [[Suman Setty]] as Bunny's friend
* [[G. V. Sudhakar Naidu]] as Fight Master G.K.
* [[M. S. Narayana]] as a ticket collector
* [[Seetha (actress)|Seetha]] as Madhumati's mother
* [[G. V. Sudhakar Naidu]] as G. K., a stunt master
* [[Master Bharath]] as Bunny's neighbour
* [[Master Bharath]] as Bunny's neighbour
* [[M. S. Narayana]] as Ticket collector
* Jahnavi as Madhumati's friend
* Jahnavi as Madhumati's friend
* [[Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao]]
* [[Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao]]
* [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]]
* [[Venu Madhav (actor)|Venu Madhav]]
* [[L.B. Sriram]]
* [[L. B. Sriram]]
* [[Giri Babu]] as an advocate
* Rahul Aggarwal
* Rahul Aggarwal
* Vijay Raj
* Vijay Raj
* Apoorva
* Apoorva
{{colend}}
* [[Pavala Syamala]] as a vegetable seller
}}


==Music==
== Music ==
{{Infobox album
{{Infobox album
| name       = Happy
| name         = Happy
| type       = [[Soundtrack]]
| type         = [[Soundtrack]]
| artist     = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| artist       = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| cover     =
| cover       =  
| alt       =
| alt         =  
| released   = 30 December 2005 (India)
| released     = 30 December 2005 (India)
| recorded   = 2005
| recorded     = 2005
| venue     =
| venue       = India
| studio     =
| studio       =  
| genre     = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| genre       = [[Film soundtrack|Feature film soundtrack]]
| length     =
| length       =  
| label     = [[Aditya Music]]
| label       = [[Aditya Music]]
| producer   = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| producer     = [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]
| prev_title = [[Pudhupettai]]
| prev_title   = [[Pudhupettai]]
| prev_year = 2005
| prev_year   = 2005
| next_title = [[Pattiyal]]
| next_title   = [[Pattiyal]]
| next_year = 2006
| next_year   = 2006
}}
}}


The soundtrack was composed by noted Tamil composer [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], which was released formally on 30 December 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/audio-happy.html|title=Audio release - Happy|publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-06-27}}</ref> It features six tracks with [[Sirivennela Sitaramasastri|'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry]], [[Chandrabose (Lyricist)|Chandrabose]], Kulasekhar, Viswa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, [[Ananta Sriram]] having each penned lyrics for one song. Yuvan Shankar Raja received much critical acclaim for the music of ''Happy'', which was described as foot-tapping, brilliant and excellent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/2693/telugu/happy/review.htm|title=Happy Review|publisher=nowrunning.com|access-date=2009-06-27}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> and also as the major highlight and main strength of the film.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiokhushi.com/tollywood/reviews/happy.html|title=Happy - Telugu Movie Review|publisher=radiokhushi.com|access-date=2009-06-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211071723/http://www.radiokhushi.com/tollywood/reviews/happy.html|archive-date=11 December 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
The music was composed by [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]]. Songs released on 30 December 2005, was a major highlight and main strength of the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/news/functions/audio-happy.html|title=Audio release – Happy|publisher=idlebrain.com|access-date=2009-06-27}}</ref> It features six tracks with [[Sirivennela Sitaramasastri|'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry]], [[Chandrabose (Lyricist)|Chandrabose]], [[Kulasekhar]], Viswa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, [[Ananta Sriram]] having each penned lyrics for one song.


===Original version===
=== Telugu version ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! No. !! Song !! Singer(s)
! No. !! Song !! Singer(s) !! Lyrics
|-
|-
|1 ||"Chal Chal Re"||[[Clinton Cerejo]]
|1 ||"Chal Chal Re"||[[Clinton Cerejo]] || Viswa
|-
|-
|2 ||"Happy"||[[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]]
|2 ||"Happy"||[[Karthik (singer)|Karthik]] || Chandrabose
|-
|-
|3 ||"Ossa Re"||[[Jassie Gift]], [[Suchitra]]
|3 ||"Ossa Re"||[[Jassie Gift]], [[Suchitra]], [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]] (Rap vocals) || Pothula Ravikiran
|-
|-
|4 ||"I Hate You"||[[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]], [[Vasundhara Das]]
|4 ||"I Hate You"||[[Ranjith (singer)|Ranjith]], [[Vasundhara Das]] || Anantha Sriram
|-
|-
|5 ||"Egire Mabbula" (Version l)||[[S. P. B. Charan|S.P.B. Charan]]
|5 ||"Egire Mabbula" (Version l)||[[S. P. B. Charan|S.P.B. Charan]] || Kulasekhar
|-
|-
|6 ||"Egire Mabbula" (Version ll)||[[KK (singer)|KK]]
|6 ||"Egire Mabbula" (Version ll)||[[KK (singer)|KK]] || Kulasekhar
|-
|-
|7 ||"Nee Kosam"||[[Shankar Mahadevan]]
|7 ||"Nee Kosam"||[[Shankar Mahadevan]] || Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry
|}
|}


===Malayalam version===
=== Malayalam version ===
Lyrics for all the songs were penned by Siju Thuravoor.
The Malayalam version of the soundtrack was released by Johny Sagariga.
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Track !! Song !! Singer(s)
! Track !! Song !! Singer(s) !! Lyrics
|-
|-
|1 || "Azhake Nee Enne" || Jose Sagar
|1 || "Happy" || [[Franco Simon|Franco]] || Siju Thuravoor
|-
|-
|2 || "Happy" || Franco
|2 || "Chal Chal Chal" || Anwar Sadath || Siju Thuravoor
|-
|-
|3 || "Chal Chal Chal Mere" || [[Anwar Sadath]]
|3 || "Maname Maanmizhiyale" || V. Devanand || Joy Thamalam
|-
|-
|4 || "Chirichu Konjunna" || [[Jassie Gift]], [[Sangita Madhavan Nair|Sangeetha]]
|4 || "Chirichu Konjunna" || [[Jassie Gift]], [[Sangita Madhavan Nair|Sangeetha]] || Siju Thuravoor
|-
|-
|5 || "I Hate You"|| [[Vidhu Prathap]], [[Akhila Anand]]
|5 || "Azhake Nee Enne" || Jose Sagar || Siju Thuravoor
|-
|-
|6 || "Maname Manmizhiyale" || V. Devanand
|6 || "I Hate You"|| [[Vidhu Prathap]], [[Akhila Anand]] || Joffy Tharakan
|}
|}


==Reception==
== Reception ==
 
=== Critical response ===
''[[Idlebrain.com]]'' wrote  "''Happy'' is a happy film watch for its songs and comedy."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Happy – Telugu cinema Review – Allu Arjun & Genelia|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-happy.html|access-date=2021-05-19|website=[[Idlebrain.com]]}}</ref> ''Indiaglitz'' wrote "The combination of enjoyable fun, good music and easy emotions make ''Happy'' work."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Happy review. Happy Telugu movie review, story, rating|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/happy-review-telugu-movie-7969|access-date=2021-05-19|website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref>


=== Critical reception ===
== Release ==
''[[Idlebrain.com]]'' rated the film 3.5/5 and stated: "''Happy'' is a happy film watch for its songs and comedy." He appreiciated the performance of Allu Arjun, songs picturization, and technical values while criticizing the tempo in the latter half.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Happy - Telugu cinema Review - Allu Arjun & Genelia|url=http://www.idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-happy.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-19|website=[[Idlebrain.com]]}}</ref>.''Indiaglitz'' wrote that: "With a simple story and imaginative screenplay, the movie keeps you engrossed. The combination of enjoyable fun, good music and easy emotions make the film work."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Happy review. Happy Telugu movie review, story, rating|url=https://www.indiaglitz.com/happy-review-telugu-movie-7969|access-date=2021-05-19|website=IndiaGlitz.com}}</ref>
The film was also dubbed in Hindi as ''Dum'' and released on YouTube by Goldmines Telefilms.<ref>{{cite web |title=Happy (Hindi Dubbed) – Dum |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3y-9fM0XlU |website=YouTube |publisher=Goldmines Telefilms |access-date=2 March 2026}}</ref>  


==References==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|0491775|Happy}}
* {{IMDb title|0491775|Happy}}


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Happy
Theatrical release poster
Directed byA. Karunakaran
Produced byAllu Aravind
Screenplay byA. Karunakaran
Kona Venkat (dialogues)
StarringAllu Arjun
Genelia D'Souza
Music byYuvan Shankar Raja
CinematographyR. D. Rajasekhar
Edited byAnthony
Production
company
Distributed byUTV Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 27 January 2006 (2006-01-27)
Running time
152 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Happy is a 2006 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by A. Karunakaran and produced by Allu Aravind under his production Geetha Arts banner. The film stars Allu Arjun and Genelia in the lead roles, while Manoj Bajpayee, Deepak Shirke, Brahmanandam,Kishore and Tanikella Bharani appear in supporting roles. The music was scored by Yuvan Shankar Raja, while the cinematography and editing were handled by R. D. Rajasekhar and Anthony.

Happy was released on 27 January 2006 and became a commercial failure at the box office. However, the film was later dubbed and released in Malayalam as Happy Be Happy, and it was a blockbuster in Kerala running successfully for over 175 days. It was remade in Bengali as Bolo Na Tumi Aamar (2010). It was also remade in Odia as Loafer (2011). Since its release, Happy has gained a cult following and has been hailed a favorite for many in Allu Arjun's and Karunakaran's respective filmographies.

Plot[edit | edit source]

Madhumathi "Madhu" is the daughter of MLA Suryanarayana, who is a martinet at home with his attachment to power. Surya believes that his daughter's behavior would influence his caste politics, where he tries to keep her from continuing her MBBS as she goes to college and moves with friends of different mentalities. However, Madhu comes to her third year of medicine by maintaining her dignity, focusing completely on studies and not being involved in relationships and love affairs.

Madhu goes for a medical camp with her classmates to Araku Valley, where she meets Bunny Bhasker in the woods. Madhu's initial encounter with Bunny is funny and playful. Bunny comes to Hyderabad and joins in a pizza shop as a delivery boy and continues his MBA by attending evening classes. In an incident, Surya assumes that Madhu is dating Bunny, where he decides to get her married to DCP Arvind. Madhu is more attached to her studies than marriage, where she goes to Bunny and blames him for her marriage. Learning this, Bunny plans to stop the marriage and meets Arvind, where he lies to Arvind and convinces him that he is in love with Madhu. Arvind believes the latter and cancels the wedding, thus angering Surya.

Later, Surya plans to get her married to his friend's son Subba Rao, where he visits DCP Arvind and gives him the marriage invitation. Shocked, Aravind meets Bunny and gets him married to Madhu in a registrar's office, where he also gives his new flat for the couple. Madhu becomes estranged from her family and ends up living with Bunny, who Bunny ends up living with Madhu as he lost his job. Throughout their times together, mishaps and comedic events happen, where Bunny ends up falling for Madhu. Being separated from her family, Madhu has no way of paying for fees. One day, Madhu expresses this to Bunny, who gets into the film industry as an action choreographer and performs dangerous stunts in order to pay her semester fees.

Madhu scores lowest marks in a subject and gets negative feedback from her professor. To focus on her studies, Madhu scorns Bunny and wants him to be out of the house. Madhu focuses on her studies and achieves her MBBS degree with honors. On the day of her graduation, Madhu admits to her friend that she is indeed in love with Bunny, where her friend reveals about Bunny performing dangerous stunts for her college fees. Madhu's friend reveals that Bunny had told her not to reveal this to Madhu and had told her that he is going back to his home in Vishakhapatnam. With regret, Madhu tries to reconcile with Bunny and goes to meet him at the railway station.

On the way there, Madhu gets arrested under prostitution charges by Surya's nemesis ACP Ratnam as she unknowingly gave a lift to a sex worker. Surya storms into the police station and slaps Ratnam for arresting Madhu, but Surya also gets arrested. Madhu manages to contact Bunny with a cell phone provided by one of the inmates, where Bunny arrives to the station. Bunny also had an incident with Ratnam as he once berated him in public for smoking in a gas station. Bunny becomes enraged and has a long and bloody fight with Ratnam and the police until Aravind intervenes and stops the fight. Aravind asks Bunny and Madhu to leave and tells that he will take care of everything. Bunny and Madhu finally reunite with each other.

Cast[edit | edit source]

Music[edit | edit source]

Happy
Soundtrack album by
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Released30 December 2005 (India)
Recorded2005
VenueIndia
GenreFeature film soundtrack
LabelAditya Music
ProducerYuvan Shankar Raja
Yuvan Shankar Raja chronology
Pudhupettai
(2005) 		Happy
(2005) 		Pattiyal
(2006)

The music was composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. Songs released on 30 December 2005, was a major highlight and main strength of the film.[1] It features six tracks with 'Sirivennela' Seetharama Sastry, Chandrabose, Kulasekhar, Viswa, Pothula Ravi Kiran, Ananta Sriram having each penned lyrics for one song.

Telugu version[edit | edit source]

No. Song Singer(s) Lyrics
1 "Chal Chal Re" Clinton Cerejo Viswa
2 "Happy" Karthik Chandrabose
3 "Ossa Re" Jassie Gift, Suchitra, Yuvan Shankar Raja (Rap vocals) Pothula Ravikiran
4 "I Hate You" Ranjith, Vasundhara Das Anantha Sriram
5 "Egire Mabbula" (Version l) S.P.B. Charan Kulasekhar
6 "Egire Mabbula" (Version ll) KK Kulasekhar
7 "Nee Kosam" Shankar Mahadevan Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry

Malayalam version[edit | edit source]

The Malayalam version of the soundtrack was released by Johny Sagariga.

Track Song Singer(s) Lyrics
1 "Happy" Franco Siju Thuravoor
2 "Chal Chal Chal" Anwar Sadath Siju Thuravoor
3 "Maname Maanmizhiyale" V. Devanand Joy Thamalam
4 "Chirichu Konjunna" Jassie Gift, Sangeetha Siju Thuravoor
5 "Azhake Nee Enne" Jose Sagar Siju Thuravoor
6 "I Hate You" Vidhu Prathap, Akhila Anand Joffy Tharakan

Reception[edit | edit source]

Critical response[edit | edit source]

Idlebrain.com wrote "Happy is a happy film watch for its songs and comedy."[2] Indiaglitz wrote "The combination of enjoyable fun, good music and easy emotions make Happy work."[3]

Release[edit | edit source]

The film was also dubbed in Hindi as Dum and released on YouTube by Goldmines Telefilms.[4]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Audio release – Happy". idlebrain.com. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "Happy – Telugu cinema Review – Allu Arjun & Genelia". Idlebrain.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Happy review. Happy Telugu movie review, story, rating". IndiaGlitz.com. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. ↑ "Happy (Hindi Dubbed) – Dum". YouTube. Goldmines Telefilms. Retrieved 2 March 2026.

External links[edit | edit source]

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