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Nenu Local
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Trinadha Rao Nakkina
Screenplay by	Prasanna Kumar Bezawada Trinadha Rao Nakkina
Story by	Prasanna Kumar Bezawada
Produced by	Dil Raju Shirish
Starring	Nani Keerthi Suresh Naveen Chandra
Cinematography	Nizar Shafi
Edited by	Prawin Pudi
Music by	Devi Sri Prasad
Production company	Sri Venkateswara Creations
Distributed by	Sri Venkateswara Creations
Release date	3 February 2017 (2017-02-03)
Running time	143 minutes
Country	India
Language	Telugu
Box office	est. ₹60 crore

Nenu Local (transl. I'm Local) is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina, written by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada, and produced by Dil Raju under Sri Venkateswara Creations. The film stars Nani, Keerthy Suresh and Naveen Chandra, alongside Sachin Khedekar, Tulasi, Posani Krishna Murali, Easwari Rao and Rao Ramesh. The music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, while cinematography and editing were handled by Nizar Shafi and Prawin Pudi.

Nenu Local was released on 3 February 2017 to mixed reviews from critics and became commercially successful at the box office. The film was remade in Bengali as Total Dadagiri and in Odia as Local Toka Love Choka.

Plot

Babu, a college graduate with a carefree attitude, makes an exam supervisor help him pass the exam. After completing his exam, Babu falls for his classmate Keerthy and pursues her to accept his love. Keerthy soon falls for Babu after he helps her friend Paddu reunite with her fiancée. However, Babu's happiness is short-lived when he learns that Keerthy is engaged to SI Siddharth "Siddhu" Varma.

Siddhu had fallen in love with Keerthy and met her father, who told Siddhu to achieve something in life. After getting posted as SI. Keerthy's father agrees to the proposal. Keerthy tells Babu to make her father accept him as his son-in-law, but trouble ensues as it is revealed that Keerthy's father is the same exam supervisor, who rejects Babu due to his carefree nature. Keerthy helps Babu to apply for a job, but Babu refuses, leading Keerthy to breakup with Babu.

On the day of the wedding, The bride's father (Paddu's fiancé's ex-father-in-law) arrives and demands to call his son-in-law. Siddhu and Babu arrive and the bride's father aims a shotgun at Babu to kill him. In front of his impending death, Babu convinces the bride's father that his daughter could never be happy after her marriage because his daughter's fiancée loved Paddu. Keerthy's father criticize Babu's speech and taunts to shoot himself.

Babu shoots himself with the bride's father's shotgun and gets severely injured where he is rushed to the hospital. Keerthy's father is convinced and accepts Babu and Keerthy's relationship. Few months later, Babu and Keerthy completes their graduation and get married. Babu participates in local elections and gets elected as the corporator with huge majority of his constituency, while Siddhu asks his father to find out if his would-be doesn't have a boyfriend like Babu.

Cast

• Nani as Babu
• Keerthy Suresh as Keerthy
• Naveen Chandra as SI Siddharth Varma
• Sachin Khedekar as Murthy, Keerthy's father
• Tulasi as Siri, Keerthy's mother
• Rao Ramesh as Bride's father
• Posani Krishna Murali as Babu's father
• Easwari Rao as Babu's mother
• Raghu Babu as Siddharth's father
• Vennela Kishore as Store Salesman
• Prabhas Sreenu as Nimmakayala Raghu
• Krishna Bhagavaan as Constable
• Anish Kuruvilla as College Principal
• Rajitha as Siddharth's mother
• Ram Prasad as Babu's friend
• Viva Raghav as Babu's friend
• Jabardast Rocket Raghava as salesman
• Karate Kalyani
• Sushant Singh Rajput (photo appearance)

Soundtrack

Devi Sri Prasad scored the soundtrack, which was released on 14 January 2017 on Aditya Music.

Reception

Critical response

123telugu wrote "Nenu Local is a likable love story, which is aimed at the youth and mass audience. Today’s younger generation will surely connect to Nani’s character and performance which is the biggest highlight of the film." Srividya Palarpathi of The Times of India wrote "Nenu Local is incredibly predictable. If not for Nani’s comedy timing and skill to keep audiences glued to the seats, the movie would have had nothing much to offer." Idlebrain wrote "Plus points are Nani, entertainment and dialogues. On a whole, Nenu Local provides entertainment despite being routine."

Box office

The film grossed ₹24 crore at the worldwide box office in its opening weekend. By the end of its run, it was declared a blockbuster, becoming Nani's biggest solo commercial success to date, beating his previous record set by Bhale Bhale Magadivoy. The movie subsequently became Nani's third film to gross $1 million in the US after Eega and Bhale Bhale Magadivoy.

The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Naan Local and in Hindi as Super Khiladi 4 in 2018.

References

1. ^ "Tollywood in 2017: 15 highest grossing Telugu movies of the year - Baahubali 2, Khaidi No 150, JLK, DJ and others". IB Times. 17 December 2017.
2. "Nenu Local first look: Nani moves from romcoms to action title". Indian Express. 28 October 2016.
3. "Nenu Local Telugu Movie Review". 123telugu. 4 February 2017.
4. "Nenu Local Review {2.5/5}: The film rides on Nani's charm and his comic timing". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017.
5. "Nenu Local review by jeevi - Telugu cinema review - Nani & Keerthy Suresh". Idlebrain.
6. Hooli, Shekhar H (6 February 2017). "Nenu Local 3-day worldwide box office collection: Nani's movie crosses Rs 25 crore mark in 1st weekend". International Business Times.
7. "'Nenu Local' total collections box office at the Ap/Tg and overseas". 21 February 2017.
8. "Naan Local - Hotstar Premium". Hotstar.

External links

• Nenu Local at IMDb

• 2017 films
• Indian action comedy films
• Films scored by Devi Sri Prasad
• 2010s Telugu-language films
• 2017 action comedy films
• 2017 romantic comedy films
• Telugu films remade in other languages
• Indian romantic comedy films
• Films directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina
• Sri Venkateswara Creations films