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Movie review - Neethone Vuntanu - by Gudipoodi Srihari
Neethone Vuntanu
Neethone Vuntanu
(Hide and Seek drama)
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Genre: Love
Banner: Lakshmi Art Pictures
Cast: Upendra, Rachana, Sangavi, Thriller Manju, Sudhakar, Tanikella Bharani, Subbaraya Sharma, Shivaparvathi.
Photography: Vasu
Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja
Music: Vandemataram Srinivas
Screenplay - Direction:T Prabhakar
Producer: P Purushottama rao

Theatrical Release Date: 1st February 2002

Gudipoodi Srihari Review

Upendra gets a totally different role from what he had played before. He plays a simple guy in love with a girl. But the surprise element - and a novel one too - is the use of computer in bringing two people together. On-line marriage has come of age.

Ravi(Upendra) tries to interview a girl in the US on the issue of marriage. She says she is a postgraduate in psychology and could assess that Ravi is already in love with another girl and closes the talk with 'best wishes'

And this 'other girl' is a mysterious figure. Director Prabhakar hides her from the eyes of the audience, purposely, and reveals her only in silhouettes. The girl on the screen calls him Subba Rao. And Subba Rao calls her Subbalakshmi. These mischievous names are the names used for these two characters. Which means each is not aware of the other's real name. At one stage she reveals to him her eyes in close-up. That is enough for him to fall in love with her. Now it is for him to discover and identify her, a challenge she has thrown to him, with a promise that she will kiss him, if he succeeds.

This Subbalakshmi arrives in India with her real name Aparna (Rachana). Like Ravi, she too is a software expert and programmer. She gets a job in a firm as programme manager. Into the same company, enter Ravi as another programmer and working directly under Aparna. She recognizes him as her man Subba Rao. But he fails to recognize his Subbalakshmi. Now, things move further in this 'hide and seek' game into a disastrous direction. Ravi mistakes another girl he sees as his sweetheart. She is Divya (Sangavi), who happens to be his fan, admiring his boxing skills. And Aparna watches Ravi planting a kiss on Divya thinking that she is his woman.

Now it is fast forward. Divya's marriage is arranged with Ravi. A flashback reveals that Aparna is brought up by Divay's mother, when Aparna's father, a soldier, goes to war and never returns. Aparna decides to sacrifice. Rest of the film shows the inner conflict in Aparna. It is a kind of riddle as to who finally marries Ravi. The last part is reserved for action drama, featuring Thriller Manju as Ravi's rival in the ring.

The film is interesting as long as the hide and seeks game goes on. The arrival of the character of Divya, sets the drama in routine course. The narration loses grip. Upendra with his long, flowing hair, entertains the audience.

Rachana looks good in well-chosen photographic angles. She performs well. Sanghavi too offers impressive portrayal, though hers is a smaller role. Marudhuri Raja's dialogue is engaging. In minor roles Sudhakar, Tanikella, Sivaparvati, Subbarya Sarma and others leave their mark.

courtesy: The Hindu

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