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Prabhas, nephew of Union Minister U. Krishnam Raju, makes
his debut with this film. So does Sridevi, yesteryear heroine
Manjula's daughter.
The young hero is tall, handsome with good physique and body
language to help him stay in the industry.
However, he needs to improve his diction and dialogue delivery,
though his natural ease and spontaneity in reacting to situation
make him a promising artiste. Sridevi looks innocent, and
lacks the vivacity to play heroine in this kind of bold love
themes.
Jayanth is a director with good taste but appears to have
been searching for a viable formula to make a love story,
Eswar (Prabhas) is the son of a manufacturer (Sivakrishna)
of illicit liquor, called 'gudumba'.
Everything he gets to see in college or in Internet Cafes
arouses his curiosity. In fact, this element forms the basic
strength of the film's humor and the main source of entertainment.
Paruchuri brothers write these scenes well, catering to the
mass taste. Eeswar becomes close to his college mate Indira
(Sridevi), daughter of the highly influential and status-conscious
M.L.A. (played by Ashok Kumar, the producer of the film too).
The opening scene establishes M.L.A. as a hated of poor people,
by playing up the love story of his son with a poor girl where
the girl is brutally murdered. He behaves like any filmi villain.
As soon as the politician learns of his daughter's love affair,
he wants to eliminate Eeswar and destroy the whole gudumba
area.
In such a crime drama, the characters of policemen should
have been a little more serious, than the way they are projected
in the film.
The bunch of policemen is made to look like a set of fools.
That apart, the storyline, too, is taken beyond the limits
of possibilities and realities, for the sake of entertainment.
A little more care in streamlining the climax part of the
story would have made the drama look sensible and different.
The film has been unnecessarily stretched too far and beyond
the three-hour limit too.
Most notable among the characters artistes is the presence
of Revathi, an actress loved by Andhra audience.
But she is given a stepmother's role to the hero, always ridiculed
by him. Revathi is the only saving grace and makes the film
look decent.
Music by Patnaik displays his bias for folk tunes. Paruchuri
Brothers' dialogue helps the drama.
courtesy:
The Hindu
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