''Modern Love Hyderabad'' is an Indian

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-language romantic

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streaming television series produced by

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and directed by

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, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudhanam. It stars

Nithya Menen Nithya Menen (born 8 April 1988) is an Indian actress and singer who has acted in more than 50 feature films and in six different languages: Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English, and Telugu.In her acting career, Nithya has won three Film ...

, Abijeet,

Aadhi Pinisetty Aadhi Pinisetty is an Indian actor who appears in Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu films. He is the recipient of a Nandi Awards, Nandi Award and a SIIMA Award, in addition to two nominations for Filmfare Awards South. Born to ...

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, Malvika Nair,

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, Naresh,

Ulka Gupta Ulka Gupta (born 12 April 1997) is an Indian film and television actress. She is popularly known as Manu, as she played the role of Manu (the young Rani Lakshmibai) in the Zee TV soap ''Jhansi Ki Rani'' until the leap; later she made a re-entr ...

, Naresh Agastya, and Komalee Prasad in the lead roles. ''Modern Love Hyderabad'' is set in

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and is based on the American television series ''Modern Love'' which itself is based on the weekly column of the same name published by ''

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.'' The series premiered on 8 July 2022 on

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to positive reviews from critics.

Cast

Episode 1

as Noori Hussain *

as Meharunnisa, Noori's mother * Krishna Teja as Prakash, neighbour of Noori * Mayank Parak as Auto driver Hussain * Pradeep Rudra as Vinay, Noori's colleague.

Episode 2

as Dr.Uday *

as Renuka "Renu" * C. V. L.Narasimha Rao as Renuka's father * Geetha Daasyam as Renuka's mother * Sree. M. Nivaas as Uday's Father * Tripura. K as Uday's mother * Zee Aly as Naznim, Renuka's best friend * Tejaswini Bhattaru as Preeti, Rahul's wife; Renuka's ex Boyfriend.

Episode 3

as Gangamma * Naresh Agastya as Rohan Durvraj 'RD'/'Rohan' AKA Ramulu.

Episode 4

Abijeet Duddala Abijeet Duddala (born 11 October 1988) is an Indian actor and television personality who works in Telugu cinema. He made his debut as a lead actor in the film ''Life Is Beautiful'', directed by Sekhar Kammula in 2012. He starred in the acclaime ...

as Ashwin * Malvika Nair as Vandana Bharadwaj 'Vinnie' * Sanjay Swaroop as Vinnie's father * Pramodini as Vinnie's mother. * Bindu Chandramouli as Sakshi * Charani as Simran

Episode 5

* Naresh as K. Sreedhar *

as Sneha * Anirudh Pavithran as Jai, Sneha's love interest * Divyavani as Jyothika, Sreedhar's wife * Kruthika Roy Theresa as Raashi, Sneha's colleague * Eashaan Gandakam as Balu, a tech enthusiast who helps Sreeder spy on Sneha

Episode 6

* Komalee Prasad as Indu * Rag Mayur as Tarun, one side lover of Indu. * Priyanka Kolluru as Subha, Indu's best friend. * Pawani Karanam as Ayesha * Bhavana Sagi as Srilekha * Karthikesh as Karn * Santhosh Balakrishna as Vivek, ex-lover of Indu. * Srinivas Bogireddy as Narasimha, Indu's father * Ankith Koyya as Aadi (Cameo role).

Episodes

First season of the series has six episodes.

Production

''Modern Love Hyderabad'' was filmed between September and November 2021. Speaking to ''

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'' Elahe Hiptoola states that producing an anthology for a digital platform was not very different from producing a film. "Ultimately, it is like organising a ''baraat'' every day. No one will tell you that the food is good, but someone will complain ''namak kam tha'' (the salt was less). For cinema, my task begins with raising funds and ends with finding distributors. In this case, Prime Video gave me enough freedom and also gently reminded me of regulations when needed. For example, I did not know that we cannot shoot with kids beyond 7p.m. I had not followed such rules during the making of ''Rockford'' or ''

Dhanak ''Dhanak'' () is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language children's road film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. Produced by Manish Mundra, Nagesh Kukunoor, and Elahe Hiptoola, the film features Hetal Gada and Krrish Chhabria as the two children, pla ...

''. This was a learning experience." Director Uday Gurrala told ''

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'': "In my story titled ‘What Clown Wrote This!’, you will see universal themes but from a distinctly Telugu lens and that's what makes it so interesting. We’ve delved deep into the psyche of the Telugu man (and woman) to understand what makes today's generation tick".

Release

The series was released on

on 8 July 2022.

Reception

Janani K of ''

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'' rated the series 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "The show aims to tug at our heartstrings, but settles for more melodrama".

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of ''

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'' rated the series 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Revathy, outstanding as ever, conveys a range of emotions with mere glances and gestures. Nithya Menen is luminous".

References

External links

* {{Amazon Video original series Amazon Prime Video original programming Telugu-language television shows Telugu-language web series 2022 Indian television series debuts 2022 web series debuts Indian drama web series Indian comedy web series Anthology web series Indian anthology television series Indian television series based on American television series Television shows set in Hyderabad, India