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Kirik Party
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sharan Koppisetty
Screenplay by	Sudheer Varma
Based on	Kirik Party by Rakshit Shetty and the 7 Odds
Produced by	Ramabrahmam Sunkara Abhishek Agarwal
Starring	Nikhil Siddharth Simran Pareenja Samyuktha Hegde
Cinematography	Advaitha Gurumurthy
Edited by	M. R. Varma
Music by	B. Ajaneesh Loknath
Production companies	AK Entertainments Abhishek Agarwal Arts
Release date	16 March 2018 (2018-03-16)
Running time	151 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	est. ₹14.4 crore

Kirrak Party is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language campus romantic comedy film directed by Sharan Koppisetty and produced by Ramabrahmam Sunkara and Abhishek Agarwal, under AK Entertainments and Abhishek Agarwal Arts. The film is the remake of 2016 Kannada film Kirik Party which was directed by Rishab Shetty. The film features Nikhil Siddharth in the lead role along with Simran Pareenja, making her debut and Samyuktha Hegde reprising her role from the Kannada version.

The screenplay was written by Sudheer Varma and the dialogues by Chandoo Mondeti. The film's score and soundtrack are scored by B. Ajaneesh Loknath who composed for the Kannada version as well. The theatrical trailer was released on 13 March 2018. The film was released on 16 March 2018.

Plot

Set in Vijayawada, the story starts with a song introducing the characters of the film. Krishna (Nikhil Siddharth) a first year student meets Meera (Simran Pareenja) a final year student and daughter of a police officer. Everyone in the campus likes Meera at last, even Krishna's friends likes Meera. Meera gets close to Krishna and they both become good friends. Meera is a writer of a book about a sex worker Vijaya's life and she knows the sex worker personally. The sex worker is pregnant and one day she gets labour pain. Meera along with Krishna takes her to the hospital. The sex worker bears a baby girl and keeps the baby's name as Meera. Krishna holds the baby and gets emotional. Meera always saw Krishna as a fun, loving and cheerful guy. Seeing Krishna as innocent and emotional Meera suggests Krishna to discover his second half.

They become close friends and starts to go out together. In the girls hostel, girls were celebrating the final year students send off party meanwhile even the boys enter the hostel and everyone starts to sing and dance. The boys leave the hostel, Meera and her friends decides to drink whereas Meera refuses to do so but due to her friends she sips a bit of vodka. While dancing Meera falls from the hostel rooms window and dies. Krishna gets upset. Everyone starts to speak about Meera in a wrong way even Meera's father gets angry about Meera getting drunk. Seeing all this Krishna gets angry and starts to beat his senior.

After three years Krishna is in his final year, he becomes stubborn and rude. He is in the final year and Satya (Samyuktha Hegde) his junior doing her first year in electrical stream falls in love with Krishna. Krishna and his friends get apart due to fight and he forms another group.

Krishna stands for the college election and also wins the election and becomes president of the college. Satya wants to change Krishna. She wants to make Krishna as he was in the first year of college. Satya and Krishna go for a long drive where Krishna and Satya do some mischievous things which brings a smile on Krishna's face. Satya takes Krishna to Meera''s house unknowingly. Krishna sees Meera's parents and her photos in the house and gets emotional. Meera's father apologizes for not trusting his daughter and thanks Krishna for the diary which he gave after Meera's death. Meera's dad gives the diary to Krishna and asks him to read it. Krishna leaves the house and on his way he goes to the sex worker's house whom he and Meera had helped during her labor pain. Krishna sees the sex worker's child and gets emotional as her name is also Meera. Krishna leaves the house and meets Satya, she tells him that he is lost in his past and asks him to come to the reality and leaves from there giving an emoji badge to him.

Krishna gets stuck in Satya's words and leaves on bike to another place. Krishna decides to sell the car which he and his friends bought in the first year and give the money for the sex worker's child's education. In his trip Krishna learns that he is in love with Satya. He goes back to college. It was his final day in college. Krishna writes two letters, one to Satya and another one to the Principal stating that he and his friends locked him in the car and blamed his other friends. In Satya's letter he writes that he loves her and wants to be with her. Krishna and his friends get back together forming the same bond as first year. Principal forgives Krishna and his friends without reading the letter. In the send off party Satya comes with the letter and tells Krishna that he is really a good human being and he accepted his mistake and asks him to give the letter to the Principal and not to her. Everyone gets shocked and Krishna realizes that he swapped the letter. The Principal reads the letter and gets to know that Krishna loves Satya, his daughter. In the end principal shouts at Krishna.

Cast

• Nikhil Siddharth as Krishna
• Simran Pareenja as Meera Joseph
• Samyuktha Hegde as Satya
• Rakendu Mouli as Arjun
• Deepthi Sunaina as Deepu Satya's friend
• Viva Raghav as Appala Raju (Appu)
• Sameer Malla as John Abraham
• Mourya Siddavaram as Mourya Reddy
• Karthik Adusumalli as Vinay
• Brahmaji as Mechanic Pandu
• Hanumanthegowda as Dr. Srinivas Murthy/ Principal of College
• Raghu Karumanchi as peon
• Naveen Sanaka as Sunny
• Viva Suhas as Reddy
• Shiju as Meera's Father
• Pramodini Pammi as Meera's mom
• Sayaji Shinde as Krishna's father
• Arohitha Gowda as Vijaya
• Amit Anand Raut as senior student
• Bunny Abiran

Production

Most of the scenes were shot in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, including Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, kakinada Aditya engineering college

Soundtrack

The music was composed by B. Ajaneesh Loknath and released on Aditya Music Company.

Reception

Critical reception

Neeshita Nyayapati of The Times of India rated the film 2.5 out of 5 and wrote that "All in all, this film seems to lack the ‘Kirrak’ factor but is good enough for a one-time watch, especially if you’re a student." In contrast, Priyanka Sundar of Hindustan Times said that the film is a devoted remake of Kirik Party.

Another critic from The Indian Express said that "If not for some change in the lead star cast and language, it would be hard to tell any difference between Kirrak Party and Kirik Party." and praised the music compositions and acting performances by the lead actors.

Box office

It collected a gross of $120K on its opening day in the United States. A gross of over ₹10 crore was collected at the box office in the first two days. The film collected a distributor's share of ₹5.50 crore in the first week.

References

1. ‘Kirrak Party’ to release on March 16 The Times of India (Summer 2018)
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3. ‘Kirik Party’ Telugu remake to roll from June The Hindu (20 April 2017)
4. Kirik Party Telugu Remake Titled Kirak Party, Nikhil To Romance TV Actress Sakshi.com (22 October 2017)
5. Samyuktha Hegde In Telugu Kirak Party The Hans India.com (8 September 2017)
6. Nikhil’s Kirrak Party First Look Poster Out Manam News.com (12 February 2017)
7. "Kirrak Party". Saavn. 22 January 2018.
8. "Kirrak Party Review {2.5/5}: This movie seems to lack the 'Kirrak' factor but is good enough for a one-time watch", The Times of India, retrieved 5 July 2021
9. "Kirrak Party movie review: Nikhil Siddhartha-starrer is a devoted remake of Kirik Party". Hindustan Times. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
10. "Kirrak Party movie review: This Nikhil Siddharth film remains loyal to the original". The Indian Express. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
11. Nyayapati, Neeshita. "'Kirrak Party' box office collections: Nikhil Siddharth, Simran Pareenja and Samyuktha Hegde starrer rakes in $120K from its US premiers". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
12. Nyayapati, Neeshita. "'Kirrak Party' box office collections day 2: Nikhil, Simran Pareenja and Samyuktha Hegde starrer rakes in more than Rs 10 Cr worldwide". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
13. India, The Hans (24 March 2018). "Kirrak Party First Week Box Office Report". www.thehansindia.com. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

External links

• Kirrak Party at IMDb

• 2018 films
• 2010s Telugu-language films
• Films shot in Andhra Pradesh
• Films set in Andhra Pradesh
• Indian romantic comedy-drama films
• Indian coming-of-age comedy-drama films
• Films set in universities and colleges
• Telugu remakes of Kannada films
• Indian buddy comedy films
• 2018 romantic comedy-drama films
• Films about friendship
• Films shot in Vijayawada
• 2010s coming-of-age comedy-drama films
• Films set in Vijayawada
• Films scored by B. Ajaneesh Loknath