Nenu Local
Nenu Local (transl. I'm Local) is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film[2] directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina from a story written by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada. Produced by Dil Raju under banner Sri Venkateswara Creations, the film stars Nani, Keerthy Suresh and Naveen Chandra. The soundtrack and background score was composed by Devi Sri Prasad.
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| Directed by | Trinadha Rao Nakkina |
| Screenplay by | Prasanna Kumar Bezawada Trinadha Rao Nakkina |
| Story by | Prasanna Kumar Bezawada |
| Produced by | Dil Raju Shirish |
| Starring | Nani Keerthi Suresh Naveen Chandra |
| Cinematography | Nizar Shafi |
| Edited by | Prawin Pudi |
| Music by | Devi Sri Prasad |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Sri Venkateswara Creations |
Release date |
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Running time | 143 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Telugu |
| Box office | est. ₹60 crore[1] |
Nenu Local was released on 3 February 2017 and became a commercial success at the box office. The film is remade in Bengali in 2018 as Total Dadagiri and in Odia as Local Toka Love Choka.[1]
Plot
Babu is a college graduate with a carefree attitude, who makes an exam supervisor help him pass the exam. After completing his exam, Babu falls for his classmate Keerthy and pursues her to accept his love. After many attempts, Keerthy falls for Babu after he helps her friend Paddu reunite with her fiancé. However, Babu's happiness is short-lived when he learns that Keerthy is engaged to SI Siddharth Varma.
Siddhu had fallen in love with Keerthy and meets her father, who tells Siddhu to achieve something in life. After getting selected as the SI. Keerthy's father agrees to the proposal. Keerthy tells Babu to make her father accept him as his son-in-law. However, trouble ensues where it is revealed that Keerthy's father is the same exam supervisor, who rejects him due to his carefree nature. Keerthy helps Babu to apply for a job, but Babu refuses which leads Keerthy to breakup with Babu.
On the day of the wedding, The bride's father (Paddu's fiancé's ex father-in-law) arrives and demands to call his son-in-law. Siddhu and Babu arrive where the bride's father aims a shotgun at Babu to kill him. In front of his impending death, Babu convinces the bride's father that his daughter could never be happy after her marriage because his daughter's fiancé loved Paddu. Keerthy's father criticize Babu's speech and taunts to shoot himself.
Babu shoots himself with the bride's father's shotgun and gets severely injured where he is rushed to the hospital and Keerthy's father is convinced about Babu and Keerthy's relationship and accepts. Few months later, Babu and Keerthy completes their graduation where they get married. Babu participates in local elections and gets elected as the Corporator with huge majority of his constituency, while Siddhu asks his father to find out if his would-be doesn't have a boyfriend like Babu.
Cast
- Nani as Babu
- Keerthi Suresh as Keerthy
- Naveen Chandra as SI Siddharth Varma, Keerthy's fiancé
- Sachin Khedekar as Keerthy's father and Babu's college exam supervisor
- Tulasi as Siri, Keerthy's mother
- Rao Ramesh as Bride's father
- Posani Krishna Murali as Babu's father
- Easwari Rao as Babu's mother
- Raghu Babu as Siddharth's father
- Vennela Kishore as Store Salesman
- Prabhas Sreenu as Nimmakayala Raghu
- Krishna Bhagavaan as Constable
- Anish Kuruvilla as College Principal
- Rajitha as Siddharth's mother
- Ram Prasad as Babu's friend
- Viva Raghav as Babu's friend
- Jabardast Rocket Raghava as salesman
- Karate Kalyani
Soundtrack
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| Released | 14 January 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2016 | |||
| Genre | Film soundtrack | |||
| Length | 17:21 | |||
| Language | Telugu | |||
| Producer | Devi Sri Prasad | |||
| Devi Sri Prasad chronology | ||||
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Devi Sri Prasad scored the soundtrack, which was released on 14 January 2017 on Aditya Music.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Next Enti" | Chandrabose | Sagar | 3:46 |
| 2. | "Arere Yekadda" | Sri Mani | Naresh Iyer, Manisha Eerabathini | 3:57 |
| 3. | "Disturb Chestha Ninnu" | Sri Mani | Prudhvi Chandra | 3:04 |
| 4. | "Champesaave Nannu" | Sri Mani | Kapil, Sameera Bharadwaj | 3:20 |
| 5. | "Side Please" | Sri Mani | Javed Ali | 3:14 |
| Total length: | 17:21 | |||
Reception
Critical response
123Telugu gave 3.25 out of 5 stars and wrote "Nenu Local is a likable love story which is aimed at the youth and mass audience. Today’s younger generation will surely connect to Nani’s character and performance which is the biggest highlight of the film. If you ignore the routine story line and predictable proceedings, this film has decent fun, good songs and some light hearted entertainment which makes up for a good time pass watch this weekend."[3]
Srividya Palarpathi of The Times of India gave 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Nenu Local is incredibly predictable. If not for Nani’s comedy timing and skill to keep audiences glued to the seats, the movie would have had nothing much to offer. Set that aside, and it would border on boring. Nenu Local rides on Nani and nothing more."[4]
Idlebrain gave 3 out of 5 stars and wrote "Plus points are Nani, entertainment and dialogues. On the flipside, story is routine and screenplay is predictable. Nani has single handedly carried the film with his performance. On a whole, Nenu Local provides entertainment despite being routine."[5]
Box office
The film grossed ₹24 crore at the worldwide box office in its opening weekend. By the end of its run, it was declared a blockbuster, becoming Nani's biggest solo commercial success to date, beating his previous record set by Bhale Bhale Magadivoy. The movie subsequently became Nani's third film to gross $1 million in the US after Eega and Bhale Bhale Magadivoy.[6][7]
The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Naan Local and in Hindi as Super Khiladi 4 in 2018.[8]
References
- "Tollywood in 2017: 15 highest grossing Telugu movies of the year - Baahubali 2, Khaidi No 150, JLK, DJ and others". IB Times. 17 December 2017.
- "Nenu Local first look: Nani moves from romcoms to action title". Indian Express. 28 October 2016.
- "Nenu Local Telugu Movie Review". 123telugu. 4 February 2017.
- "Nenu Local Review {2.5/5}: The film rides on Nani's charm and his comic timing". The Times of India.
- "Nenu Local review by jeevi - Telugu cinema review - Nani & Keerthy Suresh". Idlebrain.
- Hooli, Shekhar H (6 February 2017). "Nenu Local 3-day worldwide box office collection: Nani's movie crosses Rs 25 crore mark in 1st weekend". International Business Times.
- "'Nenu Local' total collections box office at the Ap/Tg and overseas". 21 February 2017.
- "Naan Local - Hotstar Premium". Hotstar.
External links
- Nenu Local at IMDb