Credits
Banner: SP Entertainments
Cast: Venu, Laya, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Sudha,, Ali, Giri Babu, Brahmaji, Venu Madhav, MS Narayana, Ananth Babu, Ironleg Sastri, Rajitha,
Music: Vandemataram Srinivas
Cinematography: K. Prasad
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Story-Dialogues: Trivikram Srinivas
Producer: Venkata Shyam Prasad
Screenplay - Direction: K. Vijay Bhaskar
Release Date: April 22, 1999
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Acting:
Venu is amazing in his role. His first movie, incredible comic timing, dialogue delivery and intensity towards the end and incredible screen presence. It proved his talent with first movie itself.
Laya is equally as good. She is exceptional in the emotional scenes and has great chemistry with Venu. Both leads but killed it in their debut movies.
Giri Babu is excellent as the evil father. Technically he is the villain, typical heroines father.
Kota is very good as usual as hero’s father. He also gets a chance to showcase his comic timing in some scenes.
Sudha is very good, MS Narayana is hilarious as usual. Ananth Babu is breif and Dharmavarupu scene is hilarious in a cameo as dr. Dhariyam, Venu Madhav also has a cameo.
Ali plays a their in a separate comedy and he’s funny.
Writing/Direction:
Logline is about a man who doesnt believe in marriage and prefers love. But his characterization is like beware guy and then heroine hates him for most of the time. And the conflict point isn’t strong enough which makes the 2nd half completely dragged and dull. Other than the Dharmavarupu scenes, hardly any of the scenes make you laugh.
Storyline has potential and it has a few good scenes like post interval that scene, then Kota coming and apologizing to them, the scene where Venu meets her mother and thats about it. Theres an attempt to create entertainment through Ali in a separate comedy track and Venu’s friends but it didnt work really. Ali’s tracj becomes of like a disturbance and then vent’s friends aren’t funny and dont do much.
Also the other reason I probably didnt really enjoy it is because this movie is a pure drama movie. I need some commercial elements in there like comedy or action, which this movie doesnt have much of at all. To run an entire movie based on drama itself, it needed better drama in the 2nd half.
Vijaya Bhaksar movies are sensible in that they deal with things like Paruvu and avamanam in very classy ways instead of simple. The human emotions and chraxctrerization make a difference to his movie.
There are glimpses of Trivirkma’s vintage writing, as this was first movie it was fully developed yet and the dialogues and some scenes are good, but overall it lacks the entertainment value of their other films together completely. The trademark clean comedy and punches are not here.
Also after watching this film I realized that all Vijaya Bhaskar movies are the same and it created the trope of heroine getting married to someone else, but in the end she chooses hero or something else happens and they unite in the end and somebody is made a bakra. Here its Brahmaji. This movie ends the same way and actually ends on a cliffhanger.
Direction by Vijay Bhaskar is ok. First half is decent with some entertainment and then boring 2nd half, some scenes work to an extent. But the rest doesnt. Its a timepass film but of course he would go onto to become a legend with the next 4 movies.
