Aahaa..! (1998 film)

Aahaa..! (transl.Wow..!) is a 1998 Indian Telugu-language romance film produced by Nagarjuna and directed by Suresh Krishna. The film stars Jagapathi Babu and Sanghavi, with music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas.[1] The film won a South Filmfare Award and it is a remake of Suresh Krishna's own Tamil film Aahaa..!.

Aahaa..!
Poster
Directed bySuresh Krishna
Produced byNagarjuna
Written byPosani Krishna Murali
(dialogues )
Screenplay bySuresh Krishna
Story bySuresh Krishna
Based onAahaa..!
StarringJagapathi Babu
Sanghavi
Music byVandemataram Srinivas
CinematographyS. Saravanan
Edited byShankar
Production
company
Great India Entertainments
Release date
  • 20 November 1998 (1998-11-20)
Running time
145 mins
CountryIndia
LanguageTelugu

Plot

Sriram (Jagapati Babu) is the son of "Pepsi" Parasuram (Vijayakumar), who always enjoys his life and his father feels that he is a useless fellow. Raghuram (Raghuvaran), his elder brother is their father's favorite son. Raghuram is married to Rajeswari (Jayasudha) and has a son Ajay. Shriram falls in love with Janaki (Sanghavi), the daughter of a cook Rama Rao (Chandra Mohan). Parasuram opposes the match because of the difference in their status. Meanwhile, Raghu's college sweetheart, Gita (Bhanupriya) is dying and she wants to spend her last days with him. She contacts him after five years and they begin meeting secretly. Sriram finds out about this and tries to keep the family secrets. Later at the moment of Gita dying Sriram takes her to hospital. Parasuram who saw this felt she is Shrirams lover and felt ashamed. When Parasuram went to a sweet market he come to know it is the sweet marketer's daughter who loved Shriram. But as that girl is different from whom he saw he felt his son is womanizer. To hide his brother secret he take the blame for everyone's shortcomings, becomes the family scapegoat and his father's favorite whipping boy. The rest of the film examines whether or not Raghu is finally vindicated in the eyes of his family.

Cast

Soundtrack

Aahaa...!
Film score by
Released1998
GenreSoundtrack
Length25:49
LabelAditya Music
ProducerVandemataram Srinivas
Vandemataram Srinivas chronology
Swayamvaram
(1999)
Aahaa...!
(1998)
Swapnalokam
(1999)

Music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. Lyrics were written by Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry. All songs are chartbusters. Music released on Aditya Music Company.

No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Priyuraali Address"Vandemataram Srinivas6:18
2."Aahvanamandi Andam"Ramani Maharshi, Harini4:39
3."Manasaina"Srinivas4:06
4."Suvvi Suvvi"Unnikrishnan, Malesia Vasudevan, Sujatha5:00
5."Antyakshari"Various5:32
Total length:25:49

Production

The cast features Vijayakumar and Raghuvaran reprising their roles from the original. Bhanupriya however, played Jayasudha's role in the original, while in the remake she played Sukanya's role.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

References

  1. "Aaha ( 1998 )". chithr.com. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
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