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An ambitious production that launched yet another grandson
of the late NTR, Taraka ratna, the film has some big names
of the industry associated with it. The launch of the film
became the talk of the town, when eight other films featuring
him were also announced the same day.
The credits are impressive-Raghavendra rao is the producer
and screenplay writer, Aswini Dutt, the presenter and a. kodandarami
reddy, is the director.
Taraka ratna looks tall and 'active'. His performance dominates
his 'average looks' and as the film progresses the boy settles
well with the lover boy image. He will do well to concentrate
more on his performance skills and apt stories that will assure
a good future.
He impresses with acting, dancing and fighting, the essential
ingredients of modern cinema. But the theme is ordinary, narrating
a routine story. It is a college based youth drama, with a
bunch of friends hanging around the hero, Balu (taraka ratna).
He notices a new entrant into the college - Swapna (Rekha)
and falls in love with her.
Rajeev
(Rajeev kanakala), the bad guy in the college, is out to tease
girls. And the same boy is being proposed by his father (devadas
kanakala) to marry Swapna, as Swapna's father (tanikelaa)
is his close friend.
The film opens to the display of brutality by Swapna's father
who gets his daughter (swapna's older sister) and her lover
killed because she goes against his wishes. This scene is
intended to suggest that similar fate awaits Swapna.
After she grows up, Swapna stays with her paternal uncle (Giribabu)
in the city to pursue studies. That is when Balu and Swapna
fall in love. When Swapna's father asks his brother Giribabu
to send the photograph of the bridegroom Rajeev, Balu's friends'
quietly replace the photograph of Rajeev with that of Balu.
Arrangements are made at Swapna's house for the betrothal,
and what follows is chaos.
Rekha's portrayal of Swapna is neat. But her father's role,
by Tanikella is artificial. Giribabu, Devadas and Rajeev are
used more for lighter vein drama. Keeravani's music score
is a redeeming factor of the film.
courtesy:
The Hindu
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