Naani

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Naani

film poster. Directed by S .J. Suryaah

Produced by Manjula Ghattamaneni Written by Anand Mahesh Babu Amisha Patel Starring Devayani Raghuvaran Music by A. R. Rahman Release dates May 14, 2004 Running time 155 minutes Language Telugu 11 crore (US$1.8 million) Budget 8 crore (US$1.3 million)(Share) Box office Naani (Telugu: ) is a Telugu film released in 2004. Directed by S. J. Suryaah, the film stars Mahesh Babu, Amisha Patel, Devayani and Raghuvaran. The film was simultaneously made in Tamil as New.[1][2]

Contents

1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Soundtrack 4 References

Plot

Naani, an eight-year old boy, often troubles his mother with his mischievous acts. His mother scolds him for eating toothpaste and urinating in bed at night. Naani's elder brother plans to watch a movie with explicit content with his friends and Naani demands to join them. His brother refuses to let him watch the movie. Angered, Naani cuts the power supply off creating a power failure and short circuited lines at his home. Naani's mother scolds for his act of mischief and shouts at her husband for impregnating her for a second child (Naani). This hurts Naani and he runs away from home to commit suicide by jumping into a river. But he is stopped by a man who takes Naani to his place and introduces himself as a scientist with a personal laboratory. He insists Naani to help him in his research of transforming a child to a young man. Naani agrees and the scientist transforms him to a young man. Naani starts to live as a young man(Mahesh Babu) physically but as a child, mentally and stays away from his family. The only person other than scientist who knows the truth is Naani's classmate. Naani meets the girl at a school who helped him once he fell down on school. Innocent child Naani helps to remove dust from her eyes, smiles at her and leaves the place. The girl is very much attracted towards him and she looks for him every day. Naani goes for an interview in a company under the name of Vijju. The company is toy manufacturing company and the owner who interviews him demands to have childhood memories and should be like a child to understand children's taste. Since Naani himself is a child he grabs the job easily. Vijju is diverted to the daughter of the owner who is none other than the girl named Priya(Amisha Patel) who helped Naani once on road and whom she was helped by him at the school. Priya is surprised and happy to see him in her company. Priya-Vijju intimacy creates a jealousy for another employee in the company who intends to attract her and marry her. The cold war continues when Naani overcomes his idea for a new type of bed for kids and introduces his own idea creating a successful product. Nani meets his brother as an anonymous man and hears that his mother is very depressed on Naani's disappearance. Naani meets his mother who fell sick since her son got missed. She feels bad for having so strict to her child which she had done for his goodness. Naani realised his mother's love and goes to scientist to change him back to eight-year old boy. Scientist understands his mind and he again transforms him to eight-year old boy and Naani reconciles with his mother. But again at night he changes back to young man and he immediately rushes to scientist. But scientist does not know what has happened and both of them are shocked on Naani's present condition. Naani now lives as an eight-year old boy during day time and as a twenty eight-year man during night time. Priya expresses her love to him but Naani tells her to love a man suitable for her age. Scientist tells Naani to accept Priya and Vijju accepts her love. Priya tortures him always to which he cannot withstand. Priya tells him accompany for a matinee show. Since Naani is a boy during day time he cannot come. But he sees Priya waiting in anger for him in the theatre while going to home from his school along with his mother. Naani's mother befriends Priya as they are neighbours and Priya likes small boy Naani. Priya gets angry on Vijju's (Naani's) absence. She finally decides to both get married. jealous employee kidnaps Vijju on day of marriage but Vijju changes to Naani during daytime. The kidnappers release him as they misunderstand of kidnapping a child. Naani transforms to Vijju and marries Priya at evening time. Vijju though a young man by body but small boy and does not know anything about marital life. Now Vijju lives as an eight-year son to his mother during days and as Vijju, an employee in his wife's company and as husband to his wife during night time. Naani somehow manages his mother by

disappearing during nights.Priya needs a child so she intentionally shows her skin to him by intentionally removing her clothes. Priya is now pregnant and Vijju is now a child dad. Vijju once meets Naani's (his) mother and understands the difficulties of pregnancy for a woman. Hence he takes care of his wife with full affection. Naani's child friend demands to spend time and come to play with him but Naani refuses as has got tight schedule as a son, as an employee and as a husband. His friends get angry and reveals the truth to Priya. Priya is shocked to hear that she is bearing the child of a child. Priya and all his family was tied by employee's men seeking revenge. Priya argues with Naani for marrying her and made her pregnant but Naani shouts at her arrogance of having involved him in trouble in spite of his warning to marry a suitable man of her age. Naani turns to Vijju in front of her and Priya is further shocked to see the transformation by her own eyes. But Vijju reveals that he loves her anything else in this world. Vijju overcomes the difficulties and admits her in the hospital. Everybody now comes to know the truth about Naani and Priya gives birth to Naani's son and she is upset on her fate of being a child's wife. Twenty years pass by. Now Naani is a real young man of twenty-eight years old. He still lives with Priya as her husband. He goes inside his room as young man and comes out as a forty eightyear old man who is now husband of forty year old Priya and father of twenty year old son who looks like him. Naani calls scientist to find if he had found remedy for his transformation to which he gets a negative reply from him. Now Naani shall live a life as a man with actual age during dawn to dusk and live as a man with actual age plus twenty years from dusk to dawn.

Characters
The main characters are:

Naani (Mahesh Babu) - an 8-year-old boy who is turned into an adult overnight after drinking a potion given by a Scientist, although he retains his boyish charm and inexperience, and gains amazing physical abilities. As an adult, he gets a job at a toy company. Priya (Amisha Patel) - Naani's beautiful wife and intelligent daughter of company's chief in the toy company. Scientist (Raghuvaran) - who turns Naani into an adult. Naani's mother (Devayani) Priya's friend (Aishwarya) Sanjay Swaroop as Nani's Father S.J.Suryaah as Lecturer

Soundtrack
Naani

Soundtrack album by A.R.Rahman 2004 Released Panchathan Record Inn Recorded Feature Film Soundtrack Genre A. R. Rahman Producer A.R.Rahman chronology New (2004) Naani (2004) Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa (2004)

Track # Song Singer(s) Lyricist(s) 1 Naani Vayase Karthik, Blaaze, Sunitha, Tanvi Veturi, Blaaze 2 Chakkera S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sujatha Sirivennela 3 Pedave Palikina Unnikrishnan, Sadhana Sargam Chandra Bose 4 Vasta Nee Venuka Hariharan, Harini Sirivennela 5 Naaku Nuvvu Hariharan, Poornima Sirivennela, Blaaze 6 Spiderman Kunal Ganjawala, Poornima Sirivennela 7 Markandeya Shankar Mahadevan, Nithyasree Mahadevan Veturi