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Director
Bapu has carved out a niche for himself even in his film making
like in his painting works as an ingenious creative mind who is
capable of packing up native stories and presenting them with
native touch. While doing so he goes into greater details and
tries to express what he wanted to a thorough close-up shots that
film the screen. You sometimes see just two beautiful eyes on
the screen, just bangles, and other occasions an eye peeping through
two fingers. Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, a humor writer of excellence,
always makes a combination with Bapu and is known as Ramana's
word and Bapu's line are made for each other. The two after a
considerable gap almost make a comeback with the film "Pelli Pustakam"
made for Sri Seetarama films for which Mullapudi Venkata Ramana
himself is the director. The technical like is also strong with
KV Mahadevan scoring music, RK Raju's camera work and Anil Malnad's
editing. Besides Arudra pens lyrics for this film and all the
songs are well written and are equally well scored by Mahadevan,
which turn out to be one of the basic assets of the film well
picturised by Bapu. This film also introduces two girls with incisive
looks and talent using them for appropriate roles. Thus the film
is an experiment by itself of testing Bapu's hand again giving
the best of native touch.
The
story in short is almost a rehash of good old film Missamma.
For that matter, there is a reference to that film in one of the
scenes when a newly married couple Krishna Murthy (Rajendra Prasad)
and Satyabhama (Divyavani) agree to pretend unmarried as they
go seeking a job in an office whose boss wants only to give just
a job to one member in the family. In Missamma, the spinsters
pretend married couple while in this film the married couple pretends
spinsters. There are also character to character in parallel like
Gummadi replacing SV Ranga Rao, Sindhuja replacing Jamuna, Subhalekha
Sudhakar replacing a similar role that of A Nageswara Rao. The
entire story here is a kind of battle of wits the couple trying
to hide their relationship for situation getting created with
the danger of exposing them. There are also scenes between husband
and wife quarrelling over petty issues particularly when Satyabhama
doubts the relationship between her husband and the boss's daughter.
The narration moves mainly on humorous course and it is the way
the couple fight like two children on silly issues but these are
the scenes that are down to earth that takes audiences with them.
The company's proprietor (Gummadi) finally comes round and realizes
his mistake in the end when the drama taken to heights when Satyabhama
was to breakdown. The two expose themselves tell their proprietor
their relationship and that is when the proprietor relaxes the
rule and even grants more money in appreciation of their truthfulness
towards each other. There is a cinematic adjustment as to why
they had to compromise with the boss principles is when they narrate
the vows of their families at either side needing some money for
some urgent medical treatment.
Rajendra
Prasad offers a commendable portrayal well supported by new find
Divyavani and also Sindhuja playing boss daughter. The artistic
creativity of Bapu is also found in one scene when the company
comes out with a saree with new designs and the border and design
on the saree is nothing but 'Muggu' that women folk draw
in front of their houses decorating their front yards. Gummadi
gets a fine character after a long time and presents it with ease
giving it a characteristic relief. The other artists like Subhalekha
Sudhakar also offer good performances.
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