Hyderabad Blues

The protagonist of is Varun, played by the director, Nagesh Kukunoor. The movie revolves around his visit to his homeland after 12 years in the USA and his resulting . The movie is a , following Varun’s attempts to romance an Indian doctor and balance the local customs of with the Western tradition of . The dialogue is primarily in English and , with some spoken as well. In producing the movie, Nagesh Kukunoor invested the money he made from his engineering career in the United States. It was made on a shoe-string budget of 1.7 million (roughly equivalent to 40,000) and shot in 17 days entirely in Hyderabad, India. The film performed well commercially.