Story

This film gives birth to three talented technicians - director Malli, music composer Kamalakar and cinematographer Bharat Darsan. Malli's style of taking the shots and his close-ups speak highly of his latent talents. Credit also goes to photographer Bharat for creating visual pleasure and drama in each frame of the movie. And Kamalakar's compositions are just too good to be true. But unfortunately, the efforts are wasted on a vague subject.

The story is about love that permeates generations, with lovers taking birth again and again till their love fructifies. Sivudu (Naresh) belongs to an untouchable class, while Katyayani (Sada) hails from an orthodox Brahmin family. Their love does not get sanction from parents on either side. The village head (Rajan P. Dev) asks them to marry persons belonging to their own castes whereupon the unrelenting lovers allow themselves to be hanged publicly.

The second part opens in the skies. Some computer graphics and smart photography are used to create special effects, showing the two souls touching the idol of the Goddess of the village and then traveling into the cosmos. `A few years later' the souls are back on the earth - born and brought up at different places - the boy, Kasi, in America and the girl, Uma, in India. Kasi comes to India to make a music album to be dedicated to his grandmother. Uma is a beautiful dancer who is befriended by Kasi and his friends. Trouble brews when her brother (Benerji), a powerful politician but a henpecked husband, wants to get her married to his wife's (Sivaparvati) relative. But, Uma and Kasi fall in love.

The director uses the pallavi (first line) of the famous composition Vatapi Ganapatim Bhaje in Hamsadhwani for the montage song unfolding the love-drama between Kasi and Uma. After Kasi completes his album and is about to leave for the U.S.A., Uma reveals her love. The rest shows how they run away from Uma's politician-brother and his rowdies.

Among those who give excellent performances are Sita, playing the boy's mother and Sada who simply surpasses her winning performance in Jayam, playing contrasting roles in two parts of the drama. Naresh appears to be quite matured. Benerji underplays his politician's role. M.S. Narayana and Kovai Sarala are used for relief as characters in the lead pair's second birth. The songs are greatly enjoyable. Haranatha Rao's dialogues go well. Certain scenes are quite slow and could have used crisper editing.

courtesy: The Hindu