Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi
Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi ( What happened to this city?) is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language buddy comedy film written and directed by Tharun Bhascker, and produced by D. Suresh Babu under Suresh Productions. The film stars Vishwak Sen, Sai Sushanth Reddy, Abhinav Gomatam, Venkatesh Kakumanu, Anisha Ambrose, Simran Choudhary, and Galusheya Daria. The music was composed by Vivek Sagar with cinematography by Niketh Bommireddy and editing by Ravi Teja Girijala. The film was released on 29 June 2018 and received mixed reviews from critics, but it became a commercial success. The film was re-released five years later on the same date in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states in select theatres. Plot
Vivek, Karthik, Kaushik, and Uppi are childhood friends who dream of a career in filmmaking during their college days. But they eventually give up their plans and settle in various full-time jobs. Vivek is fired from his job in IT after getting caught consuming alcohol during work hours and lives in isolation. As a result, still unable to get over his first-ever breakup with Shilpa; Karthik works as a manager in a club after rising from the ranks as a bouncer, and plans on marrying his boss's daughter, Aarti, and settling in the US; Kaushik works as a dubbing artist and aspires to become an actor; and Uppi works as a wedding editor. Karthik arranges a bachelor's party for the four of them, where they run into Shirley, who joins them to conduct a casual promotional contest in which they narrate their old friendship, first short film work, and Vivek's love story. Shirley invites them to a music festival in Goa, along with giving them a gift hamper, and leaves. After a fight at the party, Karthik passes out. Meanwhile, Vivek suggests that they all to go to Goa to properly celebrate Karthik's impending marriage. Not being able to book flight tickets on time, they all end up in Goa by drive. Karthik loses the engagement ring given by his boss and needs ₹5 lakhs to buy a similar one. So they decide to participate in the Goa short film festival for the prize money of ₹6 lakhs. Vivek does not agree to make a rom-com short film due to his past love failure with Shilpa, but he later agrees as they do not have an alternative. There, they run into Shirley and her friend, Dasha, at the music festival, who offers them to stay at Dasha's house. Karthik handles the cinematography, Uppi edits the film, and Kaushik and Dasha act in it. Unfortunately, Vivek is still not able to get out of his past and writes a sad ending to the film. He later gives up on the project, as he fears negative feedback on it. One night, after Vivek is drunk and passes out, the trio discuss to change the sad ending to a hopeful one, which they do, however, they are caught by patrolling police for not having a permit and end up in the local police station. The next day, while editing the film in lock-up, Vivek wakes up, gets angry at them for changing his ending, and yells at Karthik, who is in the middle of an online engagement with his and Aarti's family. He reveals that they actually came to Goa because he requested them so. Karthik realizes that he is losing everything else for his socio-economic status, calls off his marriage, and reconciles his friendship with Vivek. Kaushik gets the confidence to act in films, and Uppi becomes an editor. Vivek finally gets over his breakup, reflects on his feelings for Shirley, and becomes a cooler person without anger issues. After working on a few short films, they start their first feature film, Pelli Choopulu, directing a scene starring Vijay Devarakonda as Prashanth, in which Kaushik is acting next to him. 