Oohalu Gusagusalade

Imaginations whispered) is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Srinivas Avasarala in his directorial debut.

An adaption of the 1897 French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, the plot revolves around a young girl Prabhavati (Khanna) and two men Venky (Shaurya) and Uday (Avasarala) who love her.

Kalyani Malik composed the film's score soundtrack while Venkat C. Dileep and Kiran Ganti performed the cinematography and editing respectively.

[6] N. Venkateswara "Venky" Rao works at UB TV and his aim is to become a news reader like his father N. Bhanu Murthy.

Bhanu Murthy discontinued his work as a news reader in Doordarshan after entry of new channels and a paralytic attack.

However, Venky is unable to reach his target and he has a strong contender in the race for his dream job is Vamana Rao.

Meanwhile, for the past four years, Venky is stuck working as an anchor for Teleshopping advertisements at UB TV.

She replies that though she likes him and treats him as her best friend, she cannot accept his proposal as she is only 19 and can't take such a big decision at that age.

During the dinner, Uday wants to give a love letter to Prabha and Venky pens it in the form of a poem which can be sung as a song.

Uday speaks to Prabha while seeking guidance from Venky via bluetooth and when she is about to leave, he gives her the love letter.

When he is about to leave Venky's office to meet Prabha, Uday beats him up and ties him to a chair and covers his mouth with a tape.

Uday and Prabha meet up at a shopping mall and start to watch UB TV's first ever news bulletin.

Kalyani sends him to read weather telecast and when he is visible on screen, his parents and his uncle and aunt at Visakhapatnam are happy for him.

He then reveals the whole truth and proposes to Prabha telling her that he visited Visakhapatnam every summer vacation since he met her though she never returned.

Uday makes Venky the news reader of evening bulletin and he assigns Vamana Rao to Teleshopping.

To this end, he chose the main conflict point of the famous French play Cyrano de Bergerac and prepared a story.

[9] While Srinivas Avasarala made his directorial debut with this film, Naga Shourya was selected to play the lead role.

He went to the audition when Vaaraahi Chalana Chitram issued a casting call to give his final try as an actor after trying for almost 4 and a half years.

He was selected after portraying a comedy scene narrated by the director[11][12] A Telugu NRI Venkat C. Dileep, an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design and a camera assistant in a few Hollywood projects, was selected as the cinematographer of the film by Srinivas Avasarala on the recommendation of a common friend Bala Rajasekhar.

[13] Kalyani Koduri was selected as the music director of the film and the recording of the songs started on 1 October 2013.

[16] She added "Except that she's from Delhi, my real life persona has nothing in common with the role I played in the film.

[17] Since the character of Prabhavathi is a fan of Mohammad Rafi, Srinivas brought his own collection of old books and cassettes to fill the frame for a particular scene in the film as they were not available in the market.

Though Sai Korrapati did not want him to act in this film, he later agreed to Srinivas's inclusion after seeing the rushes of the scenes shot in his absence.

[15] The filming started in October 2013 and took place in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam with the use of limited resources and low budget.

[20] Kalyani Malik was selected as the music director of the film marking his first collaboration with Srinivas Avasarala.

[14] The album featured four songs with lyrics written by Anantha Sriram and Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry.

[22] The distribution rights of Nizam, West, Guntur, Nellore and Bangalore were acquired by Suresh Movies.

[25] Oneindia Entertainment gave a review stating "Though Oohalu Gusagusalde has simple storyline, Srinivas Avasarala has created fantastic screenplay.

[26] Deccan Chronicle gave a review stating "The climax scene and the comedy routines fall a bit flat, still this breezy romantic entertainer is breath of fresh air.