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Santosham (2002 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Santosham' ( Happiness) is a 2002 Indian Telugu-language comedy drama film directed by Dasaradh who co-wrote the film with Gopimohan and Trivikram Srinivas. It stars Nagarjuna Akkineni, Prabhu Deva, Gracy Singh (her Telugu debut) and Shriya Saran. The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik.https://movies.fullhyderabad.com/santhosham/telugu/santhosham-movie-reviews-2031-2.html The film won two Nandi Awards and two Filmfare Awards South.
Released on 9 May 2002, the film was well received by critics and was declared a 'Blockbuster' at the box office. It became the highest grossing movie in Nagarjuna's career and was one of the highest grossing movies of the year. It was a welcome break for Nagarjuna from consecutive flops he suffered since 2000. It was dubbed in Tamil as 'Santhosha Vanille' and in Hindi as 'Pehli Naazar ka Pehla Pyaar'. The film was remade in Bengali as 'Bandhan' and in Kannada as 'Ugadi'.
Plot
Karthik is a rich architect in Ooty. He falls in love with Padmavathi "Padhu". Padhu is hesitant to accept and reciprocate Karthik's love, as she doesn't know what kind of a person he is. Padmavathi has a younger cousin named Bhanu. Bhanu encourages their love and gives courage to Padhu's feelings. When Padhu reveals her love, her father Rama Chandraiah enraged, resists and asks her to marry the guy he has chosen for her, causing Padhu to elope and marry Karthik.
Padmavathi is very eager to get back to her parents and get their blessings. Karthik and Padmavathi migrate to New Zealand and they give birth to a kid named Lucky. Padhu, unfortunately, dies in an accident. Rama Chandraiah has a very big joint family. A few of the family members opine that inviting Karthik and his kid for a marriage to happen at their place would allow getting a closer look at Lucky. When Karthik visits Rama Chandraiah's place he gets mixed responses from different people in the house. Rama Chandraiah doesn't like Karthik and others like him. Over some time, Karthik impresses them all and when he was about to go back to New Zealand, Rama Chandraiah expresses his repentance for whatever happened and says that he is accepting Karthik as his son-in-law. Bhanu has fallen in love with Karthik. She meets Karthik, a widower now. She still has feelings for him. But at the same time, there is Pawan - a childhood friend of Bhanu - who is deeply in love with her. Karthik returns to New Zealand. Bhanu along with Pawan visits Karthik. During that period, Bhanu gets closer to Karthik. When Karthik realizes her intentions for Bhanu, he fixes Pawan as her fiance for her. Now Bhanu is about to marry Pawan. Bhanu loves Karthik, but Karthik hesitates to repeat the history by marrying a girl against the wishes of her family. Just as Karthik is about to leave for good with his son, Rama Chandraiah stops him from leaving and pleads with him to marry Bhanu. Also, Pawan comes and pleads with Karthik to marry Bhanu as he can tell that Bhanu is not happy about the marriage. The film has a happy ending with Karthik and Bhanu marrying.
Cast
* Nagarjuna Akkineni as Karthik
* Prabhu Deva as Pavan
* Gracy Singh as Padmavathi / Paddu, Karthik's wife
* Shriya Saran as Bhanu
* K. Viswanath as Rama Chandraiah
* Kota Srinivasa Rao as Himsaraju / Vikram
* Brahmanandam as Giri from Mangalagiri
* Sunil as Kranthi Kumar / Seetaiah
* Chandra Mohan as Chandram
* Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao as Venkat Rao
* Babloo Prithviraj as Sriram
* Banerjee as Suri
* Ahuti Prasad as Prasad
* Preeti Nigam as Rani
* Sumitra as Lakshmi
* Sudha as Savitri
* Tanikella Bharani
* Melkote
* L. B. Sriram
* Vajja Venkata Giridhar as Wedding groom
* Aajaam
* Madhu Mani as Malika
* Indu Anand
* Anitha Chowdary as Anitha
* Lahari as Durga
* Swapna
* Devisri
* Saraswatamma
* Master Akshay as Lucky
* Sophiya Haque as in item song
Soundtrack
The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. Music released on SUPREME Music Company.
Awards
;Nandi Awards - 2002
* Best Actor - Akkineni Nagarjuna
* Third Best Feature Film - Bronze - K. L. Narayana
;Filmfare Awards South
* Best Film - Telugu - K. L. Narayana
* Best Music Director - Telugu - R. P. Patnaik
References
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