''Mysterious Girl'' is a 2003 Hinglish language romantic drama film starring debutante

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and Venya. This film was reused in the 2003 Telugu film ''Jodi No.1''. The film was the first film Uday Kiran had shot for and was delayed for a period of four years.

Synopsis

Gautam, a shy man, is in love with Anju, a misandrist. He asks Preethi, their common friend, on how he should express his feelings. Preethi lives in her uncle's house and receives a letter written by Pinky, Anju's pen pal. Preethi's uncle advises Gautam to disguise himself as Pinky and stay with Anju. Preethi and her aunt help Gautam transform himself into a woman. The real Pinky later arrives. The rest of the story is how Gautam reveals to Anju his true identity and his love.

Cast

as Gautam, a studious and reserved man who has issues expressing his love to Anju as she dislikes men. *Venya as Anjali (Anju) *Srija as Preethi *Babloo as Babloo, Gautam's friend who has no problems in finding a girl and falling in love *Sumeet as Shiva, a man who falls in love with Pinky (Gautam)

Production

Uday Kiran debuted with the Hinglish film ''Mysterious Girl'', which was produced on a low budget. The film fared poorly at the box office as the film had trouble finding buyers. The film began production after the successful film ''

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'' and the entire cast was from Hyderabad. ''Mysterious Girl'' was shot in an episodic format. In 2002, the producers of the film wanted to release the film after Uday Kiran became famous, but Uday Kiran prevented the film from being released by intervening with the Indian Producers Council. Kiran was not paid for acting in the film.

Release

This film was first released before 2002 but was a box office failure. ;Hindi version Christopher Domingo of ''Full Hyderabad'' wrote, "The movie crawls at a snail's pace towards oblivion. Stone-faced expressions and poor dialogue delivery are just a couple of the faults in this excuse of a film. Absolutely nothing can be said about the direction, as there is none". ;Telugu version The film was dubbed in Telugu as ''Jodi No. 1'' in 2003 with Pratani Ramakrishna Goud as the director. The film featured close-up shots from ''

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'' (2002) and an additional scenes with Gautham Raju,

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, Pratani Ramakrishna Goud,

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and

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. A critic from '' Idlebrain.com'' gave the film a negative review. Gudipoodi Srihari of ''

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'' wrote that "Thematically and technically too, it is a disappointing film". Manju Latha Kalanidhi of ''Full Hyderabad'' opined that "''Jodi No. 1'' is the kind of movie that is bad at its best and disastrous at its worst".https://movies.fullhyderabad.com/jodi-no-1-telugu/telugu/jodi-no-1-telugu-movie-reviews-162-2.html

References

{{reflist 2000s English-language films 2000s Hindi-language films 2003 romantic drama films 2003 films Indian multilingual films Films shot in Andhra Pradesh Indian romantic drama films 2003 multilingual films