Story
Kanthamma
(Telangana Sakuntala) is the grandmother of Swapna (Rekha)
and Sundari (Revathy). Swapna and Sundari study in Hyderabad
- away from their hometown Amalapuram - by staying in
hostels. Swapna and Sundari fall in love with Aditya
(Aditya Om) and Vijay (Vijaya Sai) respectively. Kantamma
comes to know about it and grounds them in her house
at Amalapuram.
Aditya
and Vijay reach Amalapuram in search of their girls.
When they reach Amalapuram, these girls leave to Vizag
to attend a marriage. As the situation had it, Aditya
joins the rented part of house of Kanthamma as the husband
who is waiting for his wife to join him. He tells her
that his wife Kaveri has gone to her parents' house
in Vizag. Due to certain circumstances, Aditya is forced
to join Kantamma to attend the marriage at Vizag. That's
where he sees Swapna. He gets excited and hugs her in
front of Kanthamma (he is not aware that Swapna is the
granddaughter of Kanthamma). When Kanthamma gets angry,
he covers it up by lying that his wife Kaveri is a look-alike
of Swapna.
Kanthamma
asks Aditya to get Kaveri and introducer her. How would
Aditya manage the situation? Why do Kanthamma hate love
marriages? How Swapna manages to act like Kaveri as
well? To know the answers to these questions, you must
watch this film.
Artists
Performance
Aditya
Om:Relangi Narasimha Rao is known as the comedy
master and he worked with Rajendra Prasad and Naresh
in the past to deliver blockbusters. It is very important
to take a Telugu guy as hero in his films, because only
Telugu speaking artists can understand the nuances of
Telugu while providing situational comedy and get the
timing correct. By casting Aditya Om, the director had
lost the edge. The comedy flicks are to be led by the
Telugu speaking actors and Aditya Om, though a good
actor, goofed it up because he cannot not speak Telugu.
The hero should be able to take the entire burden of
generating situational comedy on his shoulders (like
Rajendra Prasad and Naresh). Because of Rajendra Prasad's
impeccable comedy timing, dialogue delivery and facial
expressions, all his decent comedy flicks generated
money at box office. To get the comedy timing right,
Relangi should have used a Telugu actor in stead of
Aditya Om.
Others:
Vijaya Sai is good as usual. But he got a little role
in this film. His height is working against him to grab
decent projects. Rekha is good and she shown variation
in her histrionics in two roles of different shades
(Swapna and Kaveri). It is nice to see another Telugu
girl making debut in Telugu films in the form of Revathy.
If groomed well, she could become a decent actress.
Telangana Sakuntala is neat as grandmother. Raghu Babu
has got exceptional dialogue delivery that generates
good humor and punch. The separate comedy track of Brahmanandam
and Ali is partly good. Jeeva is good as glamour-stuck
goon.
Technical
Departments:
Story:
The story has typical comical backdrop that throws the
lead characters into such situations which generates
comedy. It's a routine comedy line which has scope to
fare well if handled effectively. Relangi Narasimha
Rao's son Relangi Kiran provided the story.
Screenplay
- direction: The screenplay and taking of the film
had the shades of 80's comedy flicks. Relangi Narasimha
Rao who has mastered in generating humor through post-marital
life of the lead pair has taken the subject of two pairs
falling in love. He has partly succeeded in generating
comedy, but failed in sustaining the interest of viewers
throughout the film. The narration is slow and boring
at times.
Other
departments: Dialogues by Sankaramanchi Parthasaradhi
are decent. The dialogue 'Naaku assalu doubte raadu.
Vachindante adi doubte kaadu' is well very enacted by
Raghu Babu. Photography by Jayaram is average. Music
by Koti is good. Koti has given a couple of mass tunes
that go well with front-benchers. Production values
of the film are decent. The debutant producers have
come up with a good effort to make film appear richer
than what they have spent on budget.
Analysis:
The best thing about this film is that it is a clean
comedy film. The comedy in Telugu films has transformed
as the generations passed by. The comedy in present
day's films is very much fast and quirky compared to
that of 'Preminchukundam Pelliki Randi'. This film falls
short of basic expectations Telugu movie lovers have
in present day's comedy films. We have to wait and see
if this comeback film of Relangi brings smile on his
face or not.
Links:
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Interview with Relangi
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