Hyderabad Blues
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Duration Writer Nagesh Kukunoor | 7.3/10 IMDb Genre Drama Sequel Hyderabad Blues 2 Producer Nagesh Kukunoor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 17 July 1998 Cast Nagesh Kukunoor (Varun), Rajashri Nair (Ashwini Rao), Vikram Inamdar (Sanjeev Rao), (Seema)Similar movies Little Big Man , Back to the Future Part III , Tied Hands , The Green Mile , Night at the Museum , The Last Samurai Tagline The Homecoming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hyderabad Blues is a 1998 Indian English Hindi movie directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. The film is about a NRI vacationing back home in Hyderabad, India and finding himself a foreigner in his own land.
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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. 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
Kukunoor made a sequel in 2004 called Hyderabad Blues 2.
Awards
References
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