Happy Days (2007 film)

Happy Days
Directed by	Sekhar Kammula
Produced by	Sekhar Kammula
Written by	Sekhar Kammula
Starring	Varun Sandesh Tamanna Bhatia Nikhil Siddharth Sonia Deepti Vamsee Chaganti
Music by	Mickey J Meyer
Cinematography	Vijay C Kumar
Edited by	Marthand K. Venkatesh
Production company	Amigos Creations
Distributed by	Amigos Creations
Release date	28 September 2007 (United States) October 2007 (India)
Country	India
Language	Telugu Malayalam

Happy Days is a 2007 Telugu musical coming of age film written, produced and directed by Sekhar Kammula. The target audience for this movie was primarily the engineering college students in the Telugu speaking states. The Kannada remake was called Jolly days and in Tamil as Inidhu Inidhu by noted Indian actor Prakash Raj. The film won 6 Filmfare Awards South, and 3 Nandi Awards. The Hindi remake of Happy Days will be directed by Sekhar himself,and it will be co-produced by Salman Khan.

Happy Days tells us a story that explores the lives of eight friends through the four years of their engineering course. Each one of them joins Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology with their own set of idiosyncrasies, eccentricities, beliefs and ideals. What starts off as a journey of individuals, slowly becomes a collective one over time. They bond over as they go through bullying seniors, stringent professors, intense examinations, over the top celebrations, love, betrayal, sacrifice and every other possible emotion that an individual can experience in a college. The movie portrays the mindset of a typical engineering student which helped youth to connect with the characters involved.

The film is a true representation of the wonderful & formative years in college. It depicts the stories of concerned parents and inspiring professors. It captures the raw energy in college going students. Full of dance, romance, music and masti… It has all the class rooms tiffs, mandatory fights, hot looking professors, love at first sights, crushes, break ups, first kisses, hostel humor, bikes, friendships and betrayals, birthday parties, prom nights, achievements, failures, exams, summers, picnics and parties, careers and true loves... The film brings back the nostalgia of college days which are the most memorable days of everyone's lives.

Sekhar Kammula held a talent search at Big FM and idlebrain.com and managed to select 7 of the 8 lead actors. He had to cast Tamanna as a suitable actress was not found. The main lead of the film was selected using the internet without any direct audition. Varun Sandesh did not audition for his role. He sent his photograph by e-mail in response to idlebrain.com advertisement and subsequently sent a video clip of himself enacting certain scenes along with a song via Google Video.