Aahaa..! (1998 film)


Aahaa..! is a 1998 Telugu romantic film produced by Nagarjuna Akkineni under the Great India Entertainments banner and directed by Suresh Krishna. The film stars Jagapathi Babu, Sanghavi in the lead roles and music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. The film won a South Filmfare Award and it is a remake of Suresh Krishna's own Tamil film Aahaa.

Plot

Shriram is the son of "Pepsi" Parasuram, who always enjoys his life and his father feels that he is a useless fellow. Raghuram, his elder brother is their father's favorite son. Raghuram is married to Rajeswari and has a son Ajay. Shriram falls in love with Janaki, the daughter of a cook Rama Rao. Parasuram opposes the match because of the difference in their status. Meanwhile, Raghu's college sweetheart, Gita is dying and she wants to spend her last days with him. She contacts him after five years and they begin meeting secretly. Shriram finds out about this and tries to keep the family secrets. Later at the moment of Gita dying Shriram takes her to hospital. Parasuram who saw this felt she is Shrirams lover and felt
ashamed. When Parasuram went to a sweet market he come to know it is the sweet marketer's daughter who loved Shriram. But as that girl is different from whom he saw he felt his son is womanizer. To hide his brother secret he take the blame for everyone's shortcomings, becomes the family scapegoat and his father's favorite whipping boy. The rest of the film examines whether or not Raghu is finally vindicated in the eyes of his family.

Cast

Music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. Lyrics were written by Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry. All songs are chartbusters. Music released on Aditya Music Company.

Production

The cast features Vijayakumar and Raghuvaran reprising their roles from the original. Bhanupriya however, played Jayasudha's role in the original, while in the remake she played Sukanya's role.

Awards

;Filmfare Awards