Santosham

Santosham is a Telugu romantic comedy film produced by Dr. K. L. Narayana under the Sri Durga Arts banner, directed by Dasharath. The film stars Nagarjuna Akkineni and Shriya Saran making her second release in Telugu after Ishtam in lead with Gracy Singh making her debut in the Telugu cinema industry after her lead role in the Hindi film Lagaan, while Prabhu Deva makes his comeback to Telugu cinema after a long gap in an extended cameo appearance. The music was composed by R. P. Patnaik. The movie was well received by critics and successful at the box office. It borrowed shades of the Hindi movie Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. It was dubbed in Tamil as Santhosha Vanille and was also dubbed in Hindi as Pehli Naazar ka Pehla Pyaar. The film was remade in Bengali as Bandhan, starring Jeet and Koyel and in Kannada as Ugadi, with V. Ravichandran. The film was recorded as a Super Hit at the box office.