Classmates (2007 film)

Classmates is a 2007 Indian Telugu-language coming-of-age film directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar and produced by Sravanthi Ravi Kishore.

A remake of the Malayalam film of the same name, it stars Sumanth, Sharwanand, Sadha, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Ravi Varma, and Sunil.

He encourages Raaji to stand in the college elections, opposing Ravi, hoping to drive a wedge between the couple.

Subsequently, Ravi abruptly drops out of college during their BSC final semester and leaves angrily without telling anyone, hoping to get a good job and become successful.

Ravi later went to Delhi to join for UPSC coaching classes since he had completed his exams, obtained his BSC degree, cleared the Civil Services Examination, and became an honest and successful IAS officer.

In the present, Ravi is a District Collector in the Maharashtra cadre, moving successfully up in his career as a government officer, and remains a bachelor.

Murali's father, the professor, later requests Ravi to accept Raaji as his wife as she had been waiting for him for the past 15 years.

[1] Radhika Rajamani of Rediff gave the film a rating of two-and-a-half of out five stars and wrote that "Classmates is on a slightly different track from the ordinary but don't expect too much from it".

The story is a nostalgic trip down memory lane but the screenplay and narration are slow with hardly anything to satisfy the younger generation".

[4] Full Hyderabad wrote, "Classmates is a movie with a good concept – a poor script lets it down.