Naani

Naani
Film poster
Directed by	S. J. Surya
Produced by	Manjula Ghattamaneni
Written by	S. J. Surya
Starring	Mahesh Babu Amisha Patel Devayani Raghuvaran
Music by	A. R. Rahman
Production company	Indira Productions
Release date	14 May 2004
Running time	155 minutes
Language	Telugu
Budget	₹190 million (US$2.8 million)
Box office	₹230 million (US$3.4 million)(Share)

Naani is a Telugu film released in 2004. It was directed by S. J. Suryaah and stars Mahesh Babu, Amisha Patel. The film was a bilingual, simultaneously shot with the Tamil version New and featured music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film recorded as flop at box-office.

Naani an eight-year-old boy who is very mischievous always troubling his mother. His mother scolds him when he eats the toothpaste, urinate in bed at night. Naani falls down on a road one day and a young woman helps him. Naani's elder brother plans to watch adults movie with his friends in the absence of their parents and Naani demands him to join him to which his brother does not allow him. Angered, Naani cuts off the power which creates a short circuit at home. Naani's mother scolds for his dangerous mischief and shouts at her husband for not stopping with one child as Naani is troubling her a lot. This hurts Naani and he runs away from home to jump into a river. But he is stopped by an old man and he takes Naani to his place. The old man introduces himself as a scientist who has his own 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 physically but as a child mentally and stays away from his family. The only person other than scientist who knows the truth is his child classmate friend. Naani meets the girl at a park who helped him once he fell down on road. 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 Vichu. 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. Vichu is diverted to the daughter of the owner who is none other than the girl named Priya who helped Naani once on road and whom she was helped by him at the park. Priya is surprised and happy to see him in her company. Priya-Vichu intimacy creates a jealousy for Raj another employee in the company who intends to attract her and marry her. The cold war continues when Naani overcomes Raj's idea for a new type of bed for kids and introduces his own idea creating a successful product. Naani 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.