Credits
Banner: Usha Kiron Movies
Cast: Akash, Renuka Menon, JD Chakravarthy, Preethi Jinganiya, Sunil, Devan, Sivaji Raja, Hema, Rajya Laxmi, Sumalatha, Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, MS Narayana, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, Sudhakar, Jayaprakash Reddy, Sumithra, Bharath, Zeeba, Sudeepa, AVS, Gowtam Raju.
Music: Koti
Dialogues: Diwakar Babu
Cinematography: Ajay Vincent
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Seenu Vytla
Producer: Ramoji Rao
Release date: 6th February 2004
Writing/Direction:
To be honest its quite hard to describe this story in one sentence. An orphan who works at an NGO falls in love with an aspiring painter who has a huge joint family.
Two conflict points in the movie is Akash mistaken identity and then JD CHakravathy conflict with the family. And nether of them work because neither are convincing enough or strong enough to run the entire movie.
Also clear to see that comedy inspiration would become two full length tracks in the future: Painting thread with G=Bhuvana in King was expanded and then train scenes with Akash, Venu Madhav and Gotham Raju were used in Venku right after this
What does work are the separate comedy tracks which are brilliantly done and Sreenu Vaitla was comic genius. First track is between Venu Madhav, Kondavalasa, MS Naryanaa, Sudhakar, Dharmavarupu
1st thing: Venu Madhav tells Kondavalasa to have happy hour at 7 PM to get max profits but within 30 mins he runs out of alcohol and the people beat him up. One guy cheated
2nd: MS Narayana is screening Manmadhudu byt Venu Madhav tells him to screen Shakeela movie during happy hours and put English movie bits as well. He screens the movie and then Censor Board members come and he tells him to watch it and he gets his theater seized
3rd: He tells Sudhakar to go to pakka ooru Rajahmudnry club and play there. That night a police played by JP Reddy comes and tries to arrest him. He forgot his keys and then steals the Police’s motorcycle itself
4th: NGO track with higher officer he gives his suit to Dharamvarupu and he books Dharmavarupu. All of these are very funny.
Dharmavarupu dialogue delivery was actually quite annoying and brought irritation.
2nd track is between Sivaji Raja and Bharath. Highlight. Sivaji Raja always roasts him are chetulu lo cinema actors chopistava, Hyderabad lo Taj Mahal vundi ante and then the classic monologue: title Pepepa anti
Ananganaga oka pedha kutumbam, aa kutumbam lo thanri chala pedhavadu thalli kuda pedhade valla pillalu Thota malli vontavadu, aakiriki car driver kuda pedhavade, papam vaalu tinnadaniki chicken biryani kuda doraka, alkali tho AC car tho velthundaga
Orey! pandi yedava 20 mandi panollu AC car lo vunnolu pedhola, idi rayadaniki school yega dobbuthava.
And then to escape from JP Reddy 2nd time with his wife on his cycle, he comes to store on his bicycle and he finds Sudhakar and he to escape he puts on Enugu costume and then he steals JP reddy’s cycle.
The comedy is really good. But main negative is The main story lacks emotion and it’s not convincing. Preeti character is like a pysco and she acts very weird.
Also some scenes are so weirdly done, she calls her dad and she’s like Nanna nenu chahipithujna Amma Mahi! And the flashback is not convincing at all. Not enough conflict for there to be a family conflict at all.
And then JD Chakravarthy comes back and everyone is so casual about it Mahi chanipoyindi andi antaru. It was such comedy. So in the end except for some comedy scenes, there’s noting in the movie.
Direction by Sreenu Vaitla is ok. Comedy is excellent but main story, emotions, and everything else is not so good.
