Here's what director Nagesh Kukunoor has to say about Modern Love Hyderabad

As of July 8, 2022, Modern Love Hyderabad will be globally released on Amazon Prime Video, making love rain down over the City of Pearls and the surrounding areas. _Modern Love Hyderabad_ , the first Telugu-language Amazon Original series on Prime Video, uses six expertly woven stories to examine the wide range of love. The series’ showrunner (and writer) is acclaimed director Nagesh Kukunoor, whose credits include the well-known Hyderabad Blues, Rockford, Iqbal, and Dor. He also directed three of the six episodes in Telugu, which gave him more confidence to create stuff in this language. While he recently made his first Telugu feature film, Good Luck Sakhi, it was with Modern Love Hyderabad that he got to helm three stories with distinctive touches, a tough task but something that challenged and appealed to him. Though Telugu is Nagesh’s mother tongue, the director grew up speaking largely in English and Dakhni, and thus the transition to Hindi has been easier for him. Commenting on his foray into Telugu language content, the filmmaker said, “Over the years, I got asked if I was going to make movies in Telugu and I would always tell the people that when I’m confident about tackling the language, I will. It was just a sheer coincidence that I started shooting this film a little before Modern Love. Otherwise, I think my first foray into the Telugu space would have been _Modern Love Hyderabad_ because it allowed me to explore different kinds of stories. It gave me a chance to be creative in writing”. Explaining further the creative freedom he enjoyed with the Prime Video series, Kukunoor said that while directing a typical feature one has to stick to one storyline and what does or doesn’t work for the audience. However, with Modern Love Hyderabad, it wasn’t the same. “Here, I had free rein. So, this was far more exciting to venture into the Telugu space. Having shot it now, I’m a whole lot more open to working. Clearly, my confidence to work in my mother tongue has grown tenfold because of the show and by working with multiple actors. So, I think I might do more”. The three stories directed by Nagesh for _Modern Love Hyderabad_ include Suhasini Maniratnam-Naresh Agastya’s ‘Why did she leave me there’, Ritu Varma’s and Aadhi Pinisetty’s ‘Fuzzy, Purple & Full of Thorns’, and Nithya Menen – Revathy-starrer ‘My Unlike Pandemic Dream Partner’. Inspired by the famous New York Times column, Modern Love Hyderabad strings together six heartfelt episodes of love. The remaining episodes are directed by Venkatesh Maha, Uday Gurrala and Devika Buhadhanam and feature an eclectic cast including Abijeet Duddala, Malavika Nair, Ulka Gupta, Naresh and Komalee Prasad. Produced under the banner of SIC Productions, Modern Love Hyderabad will be available to stream on Prime Video starting 8 July 2022 in over 240 countries and territories. Read all the **_Latest News_** _, _ **_Trending News_** _, _ **_Cricket News_** _, _ **_Bollywood News_** _, _ **_India News_** and **_Entertainment News_** here. Follow us on Facebook_, _ Twitter and Instagram_._