Hyderabad Blues is a Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 movie directed by Nagesh Kukunoor

Nagesh Kukunoor

Nagesh Kukunoor is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is known for movies such as Hyderabad Blues , Rockford , 3 Deewarein and Iqbal .-Early life:...

. The film is about a NRI

Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin

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 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 home after 12 years in the USA and his resulting culture shock

Culture shock

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. The movie is a romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

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, following Varun's attempts to romance an Indian doctor and balance the local customs of arranged marriage

Arranged marriage

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 with the Western tradition of dating. The dialogue is primarily in English

English language

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 and Telugu

Telugu language

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, 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.

Rupee

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 17 lakh

Lakh

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 (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

Mumbai

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, and Bangalore

Bangalore

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Cast

• Nagesh Kukunoor
  Nagesh Kukunoor
  Nagesh Kukunoor is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is known for movies such as Hyderabad Blues , Rockford , 3 Deewarein and Iqbal .-Early life:...
  
   as Varun Naidu
• Rajshri Nair as Ashwini Rao
• Vikram Inamdar as Sanjeev Rao
• Elahe Hiptoola
  Elahe Hiptoola
  Elahe Hiptoola is a Bollywood film actress, producer, and costume designer.Her credits include executive producer of 3 Deewarein, Hyderabad Blues 2, Iqbal, and Dor.-Career:Elahe Hiptoola frequently works with producer Nagesh Kukunoor...
  
   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: Rearranged Marriage.

Awards

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