Mysterious Girl (film)

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Mysterious Girl
Jodi No. 1 poster.png
Telugu DVD cover
Directed by Pratani Ramakrishna Goud
Written byTirupati Srinivas (dialogues)
Screenplay byPratani Ramakrishna Goud
Story byRK Unit
Produced byPratani Suguna
Starring Uday Kiran
Venya
Cinematography C. Ramprasad (English/Hindi)
Siva
(Telugu)
Music by Vandemataram Srinivas
Production
company
RK Movies
Release date
  • 7 March 2003 (2003-03-07)(Telugu)
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish
Hindi

Mysterious Girl is a 2003 Hinglish language romantic drama film starring debutante Uday Kiran and Venya. This film was reused in the 2003 Telugu film Jodi No.1. The film was the first film Uday Kiran had shot for and was delayed for a period of four years.

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Synopsis

Gautam, a shy man, is in love with Anju, a misandrist. He asks Preethi, their common friend, on how he should express his feelings. Preethi lives in her uncle's house and receives a letter written by Pinky, Anju's pen pal. Preethi's uncle advises Gautam to disguise himself as Pinky and stay with Anju. Preethi and her aunt help Gautam transform himself into a woman. The real Pinky later arrives. The rest of the story is how Gautam reveals to Anju his true identity and his love.

Cast

Production

Uday Kiran debuted with the Hinglish film Mysterious Girl, which was produced on a low budget. The film remained unreleased since it had trouble finding buyers. [1] The film began production after the successful film Hyderabad Blues and the entire cast was from Hyderabad. [2] Mysterious Girl was shot in an episodic format. [1] In 2002, the producers of the film wanted to release the film after Uday Kiran became famous, but Uday Kiran prevented the film from being released by intervening with the Indian Producers Council. [3] Kiran was not paid for acting in the film. [1]

Release

This film was first released in 2003 but was a box office failure. [3]

Telugu version

The film was dubbed in Telugu as Jodi No. 1 in 2003 with Pratani Ramakrishna Goud as the director. The film featured close-up shots from Holi (2002) and an additional scenes with Venya, Kaushal, Gautham Raju, Rajitha, Pratani Ramakrishna Goud, Siva Reddy and Gundu Hanumantha Rao. A critic from Idlebrain.com gave the film a negative review. [4] Gudipoodi Srihari of The Hindu wrote that "Thematically and technically too, it is a disappointing film". [5] Manju Latha Kalanidhi of Full Hyderabad opined that "Jodi No. 1 is the kind of movie that is bad at its best and disastrous at its worst". [6]

Hindi version

Christopher Domingo of Full Hyderabad wrote, "The movie crawls at a snail's pace towards oblivion. Stone-faced expressions and poor dialogue delivery are just a couple of the faults in this excuse of a film. Absolutely nothing can be said about the direction, as there is none". [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Atluri, Sri (31 December 2016). "From The Archives: Interview with Uday Kiran". Telugucinema.com . Archived from the original on 27 February 2017.
  2. 1 2 Domingo, Christopher (14 September 2018). "Mysterious Girl Review". Full Hyderabad.
  3. 1 2 Ogirala, Mohan Rao (23 July 2002). "I've to shed the lover boy image: Uday". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Jeevi. "Movie review - Jodi No.1". Idlebrain.
  5. ↑ "Telugu Cinema - Review - Jodi No.1 - Uday Kiran, Venya, Srija, Kaushal - Rama Krishna Goud".
  6. ↑ "Jodi No 1 (Telugu) review: Jodi No 1 (Telugu) (Telugu) Movie Review - fullhyd.com".
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