Director: Shouryuv
A young girl keeps asking her father about the mother she never got to know, and his eventual answer forms the backbone of Hi Nanna, a 2023 Telugu family drama built around one overdue conversation.
What is Hi Nanna about?
Viraj (Nani) has spent years raising his daughter Mahi on his own, deflecting her questions about her mother rather than sitting down to explain what happened. When Mahi's curiosity can no longer be put off, Viraj finally starts telling her the full story, and the film shifts between their present-day routine and the years earlier when he first met Mahi's mother, Yashna (Mrunal Thakur). Their courtship, shown in flashback, carries complications that neither of them fully worked through at the time, and those unresolved threads are exactly what Mahi is now trying to untangle. Around this central pair, Jayaram and Shilpa Tulaskar play family members who watched the relationship unfold from close range, while Angad Bedi's character represents another piece of the history Viraj has kept from his daughter until now. The film's structure keeps circling back to the same question Mahi asked at the start, adding detail each time until the full picture finally comes into view.
Cast & crew
Nani plays Viraj as a father who is warm with his daughter but visibly uncomfortable whenever the subject of her mother comes up, and that tension carries much of the film. Baby Kiara Khanna holds her own opposite him as Mahi, giving the character's persistence real weight rather than cuteness. Mrunal Thakur's scenes as Yashna in the flashback timeline supply the emotional counterweight to the present-day story, and Jayaram and Shilpa Tulaskar add lived-in warmth to the extended family around them.
Context & significance
Hi Nanna reached Telugu theaters in 2023 as director Shouryuv's first feature, and it built its audience gradually through positive word of mouth about its handling of the father-daughter relationship at its center. Rather than leaning on plot twists, the film relies on quiet conversations and small domestic routines to carry its story forward, a choice that shaped much of the critical and audience response it received. Its strong IMDb rating reflects that reception, with many viewers responding to the film's patient, unhurried pace.
Where & how to watch
Hi Nanna is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself can be read without signing in. The film is presented with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Persian-speaking viewers a choice in how they watch it. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built for exactly this kind of viewing, helping Iranian diaspora audiences find family dramas like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.