Pelli Choopulu

Matchmaking) is a 2016 Indian Telugu-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Tharun Bhascker and produced by Raj Kandukuri and Yash Rangineni.

Partly based on a real-life incident of "Spitfire BBQ" food truck,[6] the film revolves around a boy and a girl who meet during match-making and how their aspirations that bring them together form the rest of the story.

The film was released worldwide on 29 July 2016 to positive reviews from critics and became a commercial blockbuster .

[10][11] The film was remade in Hindi as Mitron (2018), in Malayalam as Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (2019) and in Tamil as Oh Manapenne!

When both of them meet at the matchmaking event her younger cousin, Subhash, accidentally locks the door which jams very often and they get stuck eventually.

At first, they face many difficulties, mainly through Prasanth's and his friends' laziness as well as fighting with Chitra and giving up the food truck.

Prasanth visits Chitra's house and informs her father that he should be proud to have such a responsible daughter.

[13] Vijay agreed to do this role as he found it "realistically very lazy" and "so close to my heart because young attitude, irresponsible behaviour was a part of my personal life".

[14] Tharun shot the entire film in sync sound as he feels it offers freedom for artists to improvise their dialogues.

[5] The film's theatrical rights in the US had been bought for $200,000 and it went on to gross over $1.22 million, making it the biggest overseas hit in terms of return on investment.

For the food truck business thread, Tharun revealed he drew inspirations from films like 100 foot journey and Chef.

[2] This film has six songs composed by Vivek Sagar and lyrics are written by Rahul Ramakrishna, Shreshta, Shri, & Nikhil Bharadwaj.

[18] Pelli Choopulu was remade in Hindi as Mitron (2018),[27] in Malayalam as Vijay Superum Pournamiyum (2019),[28] and in Tamil as Oh Manapenne!