Nandini Reddy is one of the very few women filmmakers in the Telugu film industry, who debuted in movie making with Ala Modalaindi. She won the Nandi Award for Best First Film and SIIMA Award for Best Debut Director for the movie. The film not only grabbed favorable reviews by critics but also became a commercial success too. Considered as the modern age rom-com classic is remade in Tamil, Bengali as well as in Kannada.
Biggest Hit Of 2011
Released on 21 January 2011, Ala Modalaindi was one of the biggest hits of the year. The romantic comedy completes eleven years today, remembers the movie director Nandini Reddy. She also shared a working still from the shoot, for which Nithya Menen reacted saying, “Oh my God I miss those days”. Nandini Reddy captioned the pic, “11 years to the day …. I don’t think any of us believed that we were making a film that would be relevant even after a decade . Humbled and grateful for the journey.”
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Great Film With A Simple Plot
Though love chemistry goes on between Nithya (Nithya Menen) and Gautham (Nani), minute circumstances drive them apart each time and they finally overcome them. That is all the plot of Ala Modalaindi, which is acclaimed as one of the best Telugu romantic classics. The finesse is all in the taking and screenplay of the movie. It was written and directed by B. V. Nandini Reddy under the Sri Ranjith Movies banner. It stars Nani, Sneha Ullal and is the Telugu debut movie for Nithya Menen. The film’s music was composed by Kalyani Malik. The film is considered one of the 25 Greatest Telugu Films Of The Decade by Film Companion.
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