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Home > Articles > Love In Rambo Style Love In Rambo Style Laksh | March 13, 2007 Puri Jagan has come to be known as a man who defies tradition. He takes this defiance to an all-time high, by making his hero fall for a Sanyasin. After taking this unconventional story idea and setting the love track against the picturesque Kullu-Manali, he retracts to a rather predictable action-filled-love-story kind of narration. While, the first half is all about how the hero wins over heroine's heart, the second is about getting her back in 'sahi-salamath' shape. In short, it is the usual Puri Jagan's hero characterization, replete with pithy one-liners and truckloads of violence. Puri Jagan could have come up with a different fare had he explored the premise of a Sanyasin abandoning her path and narrated the film from the heroine's point of view. Instead he uses this as a sidetrack for the film-like an obvious ploy to make the heroine an impossible-to-get-item. Similarities to the Hindi movie Paap are there to be seen with Allu Arjun sporting a John Abraham avatar and Hansika dressed as a modern Sanyasin. But the ensuing conflict is the usual Puri Jagan's fare, with the hero going all out to woo his girl. When he finally succeeds in 'spoiling' her, as Ramaprabha observes, it is our Desi Rambo all the way. Infact, the transition scene from Kullu-Manali to Hyderabad is a defining one (though inspired from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) where the hero receives a call in mid-air from the villain and unlike in the original movie, picks it up and 'loudly' announces his plans for the second-half. Loudness is the defining characteristic of Desamuduru, and luckily for the entire unit, the movie is screaming loud at the box-office too. While congratulating Puri Jagan for setting the box-office on fire, here are some issues worth pondering in the main plot.  Is the heroine after all so difficult to get?She becomes a Sanyasin not by her will, but by design. So, she is on tenterhooks to begin with and may be even ready to break loose with any hero in the near proximity. Hence, for all practical purposes, Puri's regular, Ravi Teja, would have sufficed..did she really need a six-pack Allu Arjun? Eternal love or carnal love? A Sanyasin is supposed to renounce the real world and the denial of flesh is a step towards it. Now if she has made up her mind to shun the bodily pleasures and if she has to think otherwise, she has to experience them first. However, she does not. As the film has to appeal to a large audience, this aspect has been left to the wind and as a result becomes the usual 'sweet-love-with-no-touch-till-marriage' kind. Ok…now, if their love is not carnal and their bond is eternal, then bodies don't matter, time does not matter, etc., etc. Then what necessitates all those conversations about 'matti, mannu, masanam' etc. Hmm..agreed that the audiences have ignored the so-called minor issues with the plot and gave a clean chit to Puri Jagan. Or they might have been carried away by the enthusiasm of Allu Arjun, or the freshness of Hansika or the foot-tapping music or the neat cinematography. But will these come to the story teller's rescue every often when he takes the so called cinematic liberties with the so called bold/unconventional themes and still yield the same result at the box-office? Well, we might have to wait till the Ramcharan's film hits the marquee. For the time being, let's agree with Mr. Om Puri and accept Puri Jagan as a master in such genre. Coming to Nagesh Kukunoor,…he just announced his next film with John Abraham. Now will it be a Paap kind, sans the Desamuduru's effervescence? Well, that's another wait!! Other Articles By Laksh: |