Mysterious Girl (film)

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.

• Uday Kiran as Gautam, a studious and reserved man who has issues expressing his love to Anju as she dislikes men.
• Venya as Anjali (Anju)
• Srija as Preethi, Anju's friend
• Babloo as Babloo, Gautam's friend who has no problems in finding a girl and falling in love
• Sumeet as Shiva, a man who falls in love with Pinky (Gautam)

Uday Kiran debuted with the Hinglish film Mysterious Girl, which was produced on a low budget. The film fared poorly at the box office as the film 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]

This film was first released before 2002 but was a box office failure.[3]

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]

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]