F2: Fun and Frustration

The film begins with Venky and Varun Yadav getting caught by police and interrogated by officer Viswanath. Following which, Venky begins to narrate his past as his marriage is made by a bureau with Harika. In the beginning, his marital life is enjoyable but later on, Harika takes advantage of Venky and starts tormenting him. To his misfortune, his life takes another loop when Harika's sister Honey enters into their house and creates more trouble. Now, Varun starts narrating his own story, he is a happy-go-lucky youth who loves Honey and helps her win culture fest in her college. Here, Venky observes an incident of Varun and Honey hugging and then challenges Harika's family that if he could prove Honey has a boyfriend, all of their family must become his slaves. Venky succeeds in proving Honey's relationship and wins the challenge. However, Harika's family manipulates and covers it up saying that they already knew about it. Despite Venky's warnings, Varun moves on with marriage arrangements. After six days, and numerous frustrating incidents caused by Honey and Harika, Venky and Varun escape with Venky's neighbor Prasad. Venky proves that he has two families and is not able to bear the torture of his two wives. Venky, Varun, and Prasad leave for Europe. There they find that Harika and Honey have moved on and are marrying other people in order to teach Venky and Varun a lesson. Venky and Varun enter the house of the would-be grooms in an effort to stop the marriage. The rest of the story is about how Venky and Varun realize their mistakes and try to get their wives back. It is revealed that Harika is pregnant with Venky's child, and Honey is ready for the national singing competition. In the end, Honey marries Varun and they live their lives in happiness.

Principal photography began on 11 July 2018.[10]

The music is composed by Devi Sri Prasad marking his first collaboration with Anil Ravipudi, and the lyrics were written by Sri Mani, Balaji, and Kasarla Shyam. The audio rights of the film were purchased by Aditya Music. The video glimpse of "Rechipodham Brother" was released on 19 December 2018, and the lyrical video was released a day later on 20 December 2018. The second single track, "Entho Fun" sung by Devi Sri Prasad was released on 26 December 2018. The third single track "Honey is the Best" was released on 29 December 2018. The audio launch event took place on 30 December 2018, at RK Beach in Vishakapatnam.

F2: Fun and Frustration was released in the Telugu language worldwide on 12 January 2019. The teaser was released on 12 December 2018. After a grand success in Telugu, F2 was dubbed into Hindi.[11]

F2 grossed ₹18 crore on the opening day in AP and Telangana, and ₹40 crore worldwide.[18] By the third weekend, the film raked in $2 million at the United States box office.[19] By the end of its full theatrical run, the film grossed more than ₹127.2 crore worldwide and end up as one of the highest grossing film of that year.[3]

After the success of F2, Director Anil and Producer Dil Raju are planning for a sequel named F3. Apart from Venkatesh and Varun Tej, they are planning to rope in another hero to join the film.[20] However in April 2020, Anil Ravipudi clarified that there is little space for third hero in the sequel.[21] On 13 December 2020, a concept poster for the sequel was released, formally announcing the launch of the sequel.[22] The sequel, titled F3 is scheduled to release on 27 August 2021.[9]

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