Hyderabad Blues

Hyderabad Blues
Directed by	Nagesh Kukunoor
Written by	Nagesh Kukunoor
Produced by	Nagesh Kukunoor
Starring	Nagesh Kukunoor Rajshri Nair Elahe Hiptoola Anoop Ratnaker Rao
Cinematography	Ram Prasad
Edited by	K.Ramesh
Release date	17 July 1998
Running time	85 minutes
Country	India
Languages	Telugu, English, Hindi

Hyderabad Blues is a 1998 Indian English Hindi movie directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. The film is about an NRI vacationing back home in Hyderabad, India and finding himself a foreigner in his own land.

Plot

The protagonist of Hyderabad Blues is Varun, played by the director, Nagesh Kukunoor. The movie revolves around his visit to his home after 12 years in the USA and his resulting culture shock. The movie is a romantic comedy, following Varun's attempts to romance an Indian doctor and balance the local customs of arranged marriage with the Western tradition of dating. The dialogue is primarily in English and Telugu, with some Hindi spoken as well.

Trivia

In producing the movie, Nagesh Kukunoor invested the money he made from his engineering career in the United States. It was made on a shoe-string budget of Rs. 1.7 million (roughly equivalent to U.S. $ 40,000) and shot in 17 days. Apart from being featured in ten international film festivals, it had theatrical performances that ran for more than six months in Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Cast

• Nagesh Kukunoor as Varun Naidu
• Rajshri Nair as Ashwini Rao
• Vikram Inamdar as Sanjeev Rao
• Elahe Hiptoola as Seema Rao
• Anoop Ratnaker Rao as Harish Chandani
• D V Ramana as Darshan Naidu
• Revathi Alwar as Kusuma Naidu
• Anne Chengappa as Shashi Naidu
• Zain-Ul-Wara Zaheer as Sandhya
• Vidhya Uthappa as Woman riding scooter

Kukunoor made a sequel in 2004 called Hyderabad Blues 2.

Awards

• Audience Award for best film at the Peachtree International Film Festival in Atlanta.
• Audience Award for best film at the Rhode Island Film Festival.

External links

• Hyderabad Blues at IMDb