Life Is Beautiful

Synopsis: It is a coming of age story of six youngsters, set in the beautiful nostalgic world of a working-middle class neighborhood. The film tracks their journey through the different seasons, festivals, romances, street cricket, colony fights, and family gatherings. With the beginning of responsibilities, and adulthood looming around the corner, their dreams and aspirations bring them all together, to make the whole experience magical. Life is Beautiful is a story about new beginnings. It is a celebration of life and its smaller joys.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sekhar Kammula
Production: Ficus Films
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Year:
2012
167 min
Website
2,683 Views


Mother! Please listen to me, mother!

Agreed you got transferred.

Should we've to vacate this

place and go away?

l'll stay back and

take care ofthings here.

Give that to me.

Please listen to me, mother.

Tell me, who would allow transfer

in the third year engineering?

lt's quite difficult to get, mother.

Wait, l'll get it for you.

Chinni, get your dolls,

you'll cry later.

No.

- No!

Where would we stay in Hyderabad?

What would we do?

What's the plan, mother?

Mother!

- You're going to elder uncle's house.

That's it!

No more arguments.

Sathya will join medical

coaching classes there.

Chinni would join a new school.

New school?

- Yes, come and have food, children.

l don't want.

Okay then, l'll also not eat.

Come.

- Why do you do like this, mother?

Mother, let them go,

l'll stay back here.

My college is here,

my friends are here.

No, mother.

- l'll stay here, send them.

l'll not go there.

Stop it, children!

- Mother, l'll not go.

Seenu, you come with me.

You must go to stay with uncle,

don't ask me anything.

What has happened now, mother?

Seenu, please listen to me, son.

You've no father, but still

l never asked you for anything.

Why are you getting emotional for this?

Please do this for me, son.

lfyou oppose me like this,

they're kids, how am l to tell them?

You must tell them, son.

Look after them carefully.

Okay mother.

l'll take care ofthem.

l don't get anything!

How can l join new college now?

Why should l stay with uncle and

grandpa whom l had seen years ago?

New friends...new people...

Everything is new!

Mother too won't be with us.

l'm their guardian now,

they're my responsibility.

Everything has changed suddenly.

We used to fight always,

mother took a

promise from me never to scold her.

ls it possible?

Have we reached?

Shall we wake her up?

- She may start crying!

First time she's waking up

without mother.

No time, let's wake her up.

Still there are just 364 days

to see mother.

Have we reached the station?

- Yes madam.

Grandpa promised to come, right?

- Yes Chinni.

How long? Why hasn't he come yet?

Let's wait for 5 more minutes.

- He'll come. Okay?

Look there!

- What's that?

Shall we take an auto?

Let's go. Grandpa hasn't come.

- Okay?

Shall we go, Chinni?

- Let's go.

Look there Chinni! How beautiful

the swimming pool is!

lsn't it good?

- Yes.

Hey auto...stop...stop!

l'll inquire.

ls this B-block?

l mean Sun Shine Valley B-phase...

Who are they?

How many times l've told you not to

allow autos into Gold phase?

Were you sleeping?

Go out!

- Sleeping?

- Go out!

Come, go out...take the auto out.

This is B phase, right?

- This is Gold phase.

Not B-Block, that side, go!

Take the auto out, get going.

Come here.

- Aren't we staying here?

Go out quickly.

- No.

B-block people!

Hey boy! Nobody cares!

Where do l get B-block 29?

New to the place?

lt's not raining, right?

Why are you wearing a raincoat?

lt'll rain in an hour now, that's why!

How do you know that?

Go.

Right side?

Where's B-block?

Are you blind?

Do it carefully.

Leave it.

Cutjust this much,

no need of money.

Keep, have a tea.

Best luck, brother!

You must hit a century today!

Gold phase people are too proud.

- Let's see!

Only if it doesn't rain, right?

Where's B-block 29?

in the corner, right?

Yes.

- That's it.

You made me bleed!

Take it easy!

Are you doing engineering?

- Yes. You?- Me?

l've studied a lot,

now l'm doing business.

That one, right?

- Yes.

Chinni, we're home.

Brother, have a tea!

- No need.

l'm going home, l'll have it there.

Excuse me!

Me?

- Yes.

Where's C-10?

- Go right, take left and then right...

lt's quite difficult to tell.

Come, l'll show you.

- No need, please tell me.

l said it's difficult to tell.

l'm going there.

Come, l'll show the way.

Here's the C-10!

Father, this is it.

l too live nearby! That's my house!

Bring it here.

So, this is grandpa's house!

Everything is as mother told us.

Motifs on walls,

Gandhi and Nehru photos!

Why are you standing there, Seenu?

Please come in.

My aunt, very strict but mother

said very soft hearted lady.

Your classes start from tomorrow.

- Okay uncle.

Take the receipt.

Show it in the class.

- Okay.

Grandpa will take Chinni to school.

- Okay uncle.

When will your college starts?

- Still there's a week, uncle.

Okay, let's discuss in the evening.

Uncle is lawyer, a lawyer

who fights forjustice.

That's why he still drives

around in a scooter.

My uncle's son Ashok.

He's preparing for lAS.

My grandma, who makes

tastiest pickles.

My mother told me, she makes

a pickle for every season.

Hi sister!

- Aunt's sister.

Aunt wants to get her

married this year.

Help her.

- Okay.

Aunty, l'll do it.

- Do you know?- l do.

You're doing it very well.

And finally my absent minded grandpa!

My sweet darling!

- Grandpa!

l came to the station

at right time but...

l don't know if l missed the train

number or the platform number.

This is our room.

Found little small!

Sathya is scared of lizards.

l can't sleep without fan.

Did you brush the teeth?

Seenu, coffee!

Milk for you, Chinni.

Have it.

Chinni needs hot water to

take bath and hates milk.

What's that?

- Nothing, aunty.

Take it.

ls cabbage curry okay for chapattis?

- Cabbage?

Okay, aunty.

- Okay, aunty.- Okay.

Chinni, say okay to anything

aunt says, okay?

l sacrificed the cot near

the window to Sathya.

To allow her to read better.

l could understand clearly that

adjustments have begun in my life.

Aunt, grandpa, grandma,

everyone is there.

Everyone must say Chinni is

very good girl. Okay?

You mustn't cry for a year.

One year means how many days, mother?

l too made many promises

to my mother.

Sathya would become a doctor,

l'll control my anger,

and that l'll study well,

and that l'll never get

into trouble with girls.

lt's raining!

Mother loves rain!

She used to make all the children

to make paper boats.

Give it to grandma.

What's this?

- ldli coconut chutney.

You are...?

You're Seenu?

Lakshmi's son?

Are Sathya and Chinni too here?

They're upstairs.

She's rich aunt's daughter.

Mother said she doesn't care about us.

But she doesn't look like that.

Very beautiful!

Long hair like my mother.

Beautiful smile!

Feel like seeing her again and again.

Technically, you're suitor.

l'm Padmavathi. Padhu!

My grandma's name.

Srinivas...Seenu, our grandpa's name.

Go father! Who will bother

about signals in rain?

Wait, l'll give.

l think girl from Gold phase, dad!

At least given him Rs.10

to keep our honour.

Do you remember the beggar's face.- No!

Likewise the girl too won't

remember your face. This is a fact.

There's no worse depressing father

than you in the world, dad.

Never compare yourselves

with people of Gold phase,

try to raise yourself

to their level.

Wait...wait sir!

We're nearby,

can't you call us to help?

lt would've got wet in rain.

Keep it here, sir.

We're alive, right? Shouldn't

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Sekhar Kammula

Kumar Shekhar Kammula is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer from Padmarao Nagar, known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema. He is known for making films which are rare combination of aesthetic values and commercial success. They are considered to be path breaking. He is known as the instigator of the new wave of Telugu films. With an amazing ability to portray intricate details of human character and emotions amongst his cast in his movies, Kammula is being widely recognized as one of the finest directors to emerge in contemporary Telugu Cinema and has a huge fan following across most of NRI diaspora spread around the World. He started his film production company Amigos Creations Pvt Ltd in 1999 and directed most of his films under the same banner. more…

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