Modern Love Hyderabad

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| image = Modern Love Hyderabad.jpeg

| caption = Official poster

| genre = {{Hlist | Romance | Drama | Anthology}}

| based_on = {{Based on|Modern Love|John Carney}}

| writer = {{plainlist|

Nagesh Kukunoor
Shashi Sudigala
Bahaish Kapoor}}

| director = {{plainlist|

Nagesh Kukunoor
Venkatesh Maha
Uday Gurrala
Devika Bahudhanam

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| starring = {{plainlist|

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| Songs:

| Smaran

| Score:

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| language = Telugu

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 6

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| executive_producer = John Carney

| producer = Elahe Hiptoola

| location = Hyderabad

| cinematography = {{ubl | Sangram Giri | Aditya Javvadi | Sai Prakash Ummadisingu}}

| editor = {{ubl | A. Sreekar Prasad | Ravi Teja Girijala | Harishankar Tamminana}}

| runtime =

| company = SIC Productions

| network = Amazon Prime Video

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| first_aired = {{Start date|df=y|2022|07|08}}

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Modern Love Hyderabad is an Indian Telugu-language romantic anthology television series produced by Elahe Hiptoola and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Bahudhanam. It stars Nithya Menen, Abijeet, Aadhi Pinisetty, Ritu Varma, Malvika Nair, Suhasini Maniratnam, Revathi, Naresh, Ulka Gupta, Naresh Agastya, and Komalee Prasad in the lead roles.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-27 |title=Modern Love Hyderabad Trailer: Six heartwarming stories of love & life that will touch your heart |url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/south/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-six-heartwarming-stories-love-life-will-touch-your-heart-1151237 |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=Pinkvilla |language=en |archive-date=3 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503185902/https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/south/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-six-heartwarming-stories-love-life-will-touch-your-heart-1151237 |url-status=dead }}

Modern Love Hyderabad is set in Hyderabad and is based on the American television series Modern Love which itself is based on the weekly column of the same name published by The New York Times.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-28 |title=Modern Love Hyderabad trailer: Revathy-Nithya Menen starrer explores love in the bustling city of Charminar |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-nithya-menen-revathy-amazon-prime-video-7994613/ |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=The Indian Express |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629075303/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-nithya-menen-revathy-amazon-prime-video-7994613/ |url-status=live }} The series premiered on 8 July 2022 on Amazon Prime Video to positive reviews from critics.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-28 |title=Prime Video releases trailer for 'Modern Love Hyderabad' |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/trailer-modern-love-hyderabad-1503085060.html |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=The Statesman |language=en-US |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629075304/https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/trailer-modern-love-hyderabad-1503085060.html |url-status=live }}

Cast

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valign="top" \| Nithya Menen as Noori Hussain Revathi as Meharunnisa, Noori's mother Krishna Teja as Prakash, neighbour of Noori Mayank Parak as Hussain, auto driver Pradeep Rudra as Vinay, Noori's colleague \| valign="top" \| Aadhi Pinisetty as Dr. Uday Ritu Varma 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 Zainab Ali Sajjad as Naznim, Renuka's best friend Tejaswini Bhattaru as Preeti, Rahul's wife; Renuka's ex-boyfriend \| valign="top" \| Suhasini Maniratnam as Gangamma Naresh Agastya as Rohan Durvraj 'RD'/'Rohan' AKA Ramulu.
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valign="top" \| Abijeet Duddala 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 Silpa Chakravarthy as Model \| valign="top" \| Naresh as K. Sreedhar Ulka Gupta 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 \| valign="top" \| Komalee Prasad as Indu Rag Mayur as Tarun, Indu's one-side lover Priyanka Kolluru as Subha, Indu's best friend Pawani Karanam as Ayesha Bhavana Sagi as Srilekha Karthikesh as Karn Santhosh Balakrishna as Vivek, Indu's ex-lover Srinivas Bogireddy as Narasimha, Indu's father Ankith Koyya as Aadi (cameo appearance)

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! style="background:#EEDD82; width:10%" |Why Did She Leave Me There?

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Nithya Menen as Noori Hussain
Revathi as Meharunnisa, Noori's mother
Krishna Teja as Prakash, neighbour of Noori
Mayank Parak as Hussain, auto driver
Pradeep Rudra as Vinay, Noori's colleague

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Aadhi Pinisetty as Dr. Uday
Ritu Varma 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
Zainab Ali Sajjad as Naznim, Renuka's best friend
Tejaswini Bhattaru as Preeti, Rahul's wife; Renuka's ex-boyfriend

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

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! style="background:#EEDD82; width:10%" |About That Rustle in the Bushes

! style="background:#EEDD82; width:10%" |Finding Your Penguin

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Abijeet Duddala 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
Silpa Chakravarthy as Model

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Naresh as K. Sreedhar
Ulka Gupta 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

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

Episodes

The first season of the series has six episodes.{{Cite news |date=2022-06-23 |title=Modern Love Hyderabad: 6 heartfelt stories of romance to release in July-details inside |url=https://www.zoomtventertainment.com/web-series/modern-love-hyderabad-6-heartfelt-stories-of-romance-to-release-in-july-details-inside-article-92396966 |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=Zoom TV |language=en |archive-date=4 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704091411/https://www.zoomtventertainment.com/web-series/modern-love-hyderabad-6-heartfelt-stories-of-romance-to-release-in-july-details-inside-article-92396966 |url-status=live }}

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Production

Modern Love Hyderabad was filmed between September and November 2021. Speaking to The Hindu 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. This was a learning experience."{{Cite news |last=Dundoo |first=Sangeetha Devi |date=2022-06-29 |title=Elahe Hiptoola and Aparna Purohit: 'Modern Love Hyderabad', all set to stream on Amazon Prime Video, will reflect the multicultural fabric of the city |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/modern-love-hyderabad-to-reflect-the-multicultural-multilingual-fabric-of-the-city/article65575289.ece |access-date=2022-06-29 |issn=0971-751X |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629075303/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/modern-love-hyderabad-to-reflect-the-multicultural-multilingual-fabric-of-the-city/article65575289.ece |url-status=live }} Director Uday Gurrala told News18: "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".{{Cite web |date=2022-06-28 |title=Modern Love Hyderabad Trailer Promises To Explore Emotions and Relationships; To Release On July 8 |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-promises-to-explore-emotions-and-relationships-to-release-on-july-8-5454127.html |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=News18 |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629075303/https://www.news18.com/news/movies/modern-love-hyderabad-trailer-promises-to-explore-emotions-and-relationships-to-release-on-july-8-5454127.html |url-status=live }}

Release

The series was released on Amazon Prime Video on 8 July 2022.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-06-29 |title=Makers drop trailer of Modern Love Hyderabad |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/lifestyle/love-is-in-the-air-407971 |access-date=2022-06-29 |website=The Tribune |language=en |archive-date=29 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629075303/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/lifestyle/love-is-in-the-air-407971 |url-status=live }}

Reception

Janani K of India Today rated the series 2.5 out of 5 stars and wrote "The show aims to tug at our heartstrings, but settles for more melodrama".{{cite web|title=Modern Love Hyderabad Review: Few hits, lots of misses in this anthology about relationships|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/binge-watch/story/modern-love-hyderabad-review-few-hits-lots-of-misses-in-this-anthology-about-relationships-1973254-2022-07-08|website=India Today|date=8 July 2022|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=8 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220708233133/https://www.indiatoday.in/binge-watch/story/modern-love-hyderabad-review-few-hits-lots-of-misses-in-this-anthology-about-relationships-1973254-2022-07-08|url-status=live}} Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV 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".{{cite web|title=Modern Love Hyderabad Review: A Few Fine Performances Add Up To Mildly Diverting Fare|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/modern-love-hyderabad-review-a-few-fine-performances-add-up-to-mildly-diverting-fare-2-and-a-half-stars-3141879|website=NDTV|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=9 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709040404/https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/modern-love-hyderabad-review-a-few-fine-performances-add-up-to-mildly-diverting-fare-2-and-a-half-stars-3141879|url-status=live}}