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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > A Film By Aravind
Cast: Rishi, Rajeev Kanakala, Mona Chopra, Ghazal Srinivas, Mallikarjuna Rao, Madhu, Chaitanya, Vijay, Jaipal Reddy, Srikanth Reddy and Others.
Camera: Ramesh Krishna.
Dialogue & Lyrics: Surendra Krishna.
Editing: BR Tirupati Reddy.
Music: Vijay Kurakula.
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Shekkhar Suri.
Producer: Sridhar Rao.
Banner: Creative Commercials.
 It is a suspense-based crime drama. Better not to know the end, if you want to watch the movie, because, the finish given to this theme is its life. The attempt on the part of the filmmakers to go a bit away from the routine is laudable. Yet enough care is not taken in the screenplay part. However much they are fictitious, it is necessary that the narration should have in-built supportive logic, which is absent. Besides there is no clarity at all in the basic concept of running the drama on the lines of what is written in a script that is placed in the hand of the director Aravind, adds to the confusion, as to who is running the theme - script writer or the director. The subject is drama within drama.
The main characters of this plot are a film director Aravind (Rajeev Kanakala), his actor Rishi (Rishi) and Nirupama (Mona Chopra), a hitchhiker picked up by the director-actor duo on the way to their holiday resort. The subject opens with Aravind receiving a script to his hand for his third film. Rishi and he are good friends and together made two hits with Rishi as hero. Aravind finds half the papers in the script are drenched in ink and couldn't be read through. Aravind's assistant tells that an inkbottle fell on it. But he feels whatever he read through was quite interesting. It is also a subject that keeps a girl as the bone of contention between two young men. On their way to the holiday resort Aravind and Rishi find a girl standing across the road waving a sign for 'lift'. She is Nirupama.
 Meanwhile, during this journey, Aravind keeps the script open and finds the sequences in the script occurring before his eyes. He and Rishi are the two men and Nirupama, whom they address as Neeru, is their girl. 'What's next' is what that worries the director Aravind. As written in the script one of them, here it is Rishi, gets attracted to her. But further reading into the script reveals that she would murder one of them. For Aravind the script looks as if it is his horoscope and also that of Rishi. He refers to it as and when a new development takes place in their life.
In the resort, Rishi appears to be entangled with the girl. The script writer (Srinivas) appears again and tells this time that Rishi will be her victim. Aravind is highly concerned about the welfare of his friend. He keeps a close watch on their movements. He even warns Rishi of the lurking danger in continuing his relationship with Neeru. But Rishi ignores these warnings calling them hallucinations of his friend. But then things really start happening. There is a sudden announcement on TV, about a 'serial killer' on the prowl. She is woman. Aravind connects that to his own experiences, and thinks that Neeru is that killer. Rest of the drama takes us into the atmosphere of a forest haunted by the killer.
 The film has offbeat structure. But the story appears to be a bit haphazard. The first half moves faster than the second half, for the reason that there are cinema shooting scenes, atmosphere of filmmaking and the aura that surrounds it. Once the director and his actor take to the road on a long journey, the story faces speed breakers. The logic and sense, essential features of narration are missing. Irrelevant characters come and go. And the story also loses its sense of time. The film is undoubtedly a low cost production with no costly locations. The major part of the story runs against secluded locations. The title character of Aravind, played by Rajeev Kanakala appears to have been overplayed. Overplaying, means artificiality. He reacts more than needed in most of the scenes, while the role of Rishi is played down. Unnecessary fights between these friends too look silly. Neeru will be remembered more for her exposure than drama. The background score is sensible and gave good support to the crime drama. Dialogue is weak.
- ASLESHA
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