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                    The story in the first half of this film runs almost on the 
                    same lines of Run, another three-letter title. But 
                    Dil treads on its own path through scenes resolving the problem 
                    created in the subject. The film proves to be a quite challenging 
                    one for the baby-faced Nitin, as he plays an action hero, 
                    with plenty of fights. It becomes rather difficult to digest 
                    the fact that he triumphs against dozens of well-built goons. 
                    This is cinema and anything is possible. Hero Seenu (Nitin) 
                    loses his dil to mafia don Gowri Sankar's (Prakash Raj) daughter 
                    Nandini (neha). It is rather funny that fathers these films 
                    for such silly choice for their "only" daughters. 
                    Besides, his personal experience should have present lovers 
                    to get together. Shankar 
                    faced similar problems with his wife's father (Rajan P.Dev) 
                    objecting to their marriage. Shankar 
                    goes into flash back mode remembering how he had fallen in 
                    love with Nandini's mum and the problems they had faced. In 
                    between these two scenes of "cause" and "effect," 
                    we watch a series of battles between Shankar's henchmen and 
                    our one-man army, Seenu. Seenu's 
                    father Bhaskar Rao (Chalapathi Rao) encourages his son to 
                    go for the girl and see that "love" conquers. The 
                    dictum of this film then is "love is the final winner" 
                    It also sounds a warning about "love, youth power and 
                    students". The 
                    film ropes in a multitude of students to check the villain's 
                    advance with his gang.Nitin still needs some mobility in his expression and reaction. 
                    New entrant neha is adequate for the role. Prakash Raj merely 
                    makes the film his playground of histrionics. Chalapathi Rao 
                    and Sudha are competent as Seenu's parents. Chalapathi Rao 
                    is impressive particularly in the final scenes. Patnaik's 
                    music score is satisfactory.
 courtesy: 
                    The Hindu |