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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Andarivadu
Cast: Chiranjeevi, Rimmie Sen, Tabu, Rakshita, Prakashraj, Brahmanandam and Others.
Story: Bhupathi Raja
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh.
Music: Devisri Prasad.
Screenplay & Direction: Sreenu Vytla.
Producer: Allu Aravind.
Banner: Geeta Arts.
 Chiranjeevi might be Andarivaadu, but not the characters he played on the screen. The father Govindarajulu is a drunkard to the extent that he even breaks his own oath not to drink any more after his son was married off to his sweet heart. But the joke of it is that the very son who has been insisting that he should stop drinking and took oath to that effect presents the father with a foreign scotch bottle. This scene has nothing to do with the main theme. The film's texture is divided into two distinct emotions – the first part is comedy oriented while the second one is sentimental and even vengeance oriented villainy by the very daughter-in-law of the house. But which ever may be the scene; director Sreenu Vytla concentrates more on entertaining the audience. Therefore these drunken scenes of Chiranjeevi add to that. And there is a separate track for the very serious villain. But this character is introduced only to find solution for the problems created by Siddartha's wife.
Govindarajulu and Siddartha, both played competently by Chiranjeevi, live happily till a girl enters Siddartha's life. She is Sandhya (Rimmie Sen), who is seen boasting with her friends that the TV reporter Siddartha is her friend. But she is shocked to see Siddartha entering the hotel and taking a table there. Friends insist she should introduce him to them. She quietly goes to him and tells who she is and then says what she bluffed to them. She requests him to pretend he is her boy friend. He obliges her. But that intimacy leads to their love and each deciding to marry.
 Meanwhile the marriage of his father Govindarajulu, a widower, is also a problem. A sequence in comical tenor is created to show how Govindarajulu finally weds Shanti (Tabu), a schoolteacher. Once Shanti is in the house of Govindarajulu, things began moving smoothly. And when Govindarajulu learns that his son is in love with Sandhya he is all the more interested to get them married as the girl's father (Prakashraj) has been his childhood friend and was colleague in work. But he grew up taking contract works and is now the richest man in the place, while Govindarajulu remained an ex-coolie. When the latter goes to him and proposes marriage of his son with his daughter, Prakashraj refuses and insults him that Siddartha is the son of a coolie. But when his daughter says that she loves him, her father asks Siddartha to live in his house after marriage. But he shuns the proposal and goes back. On knowing this the father Goivindarajulu paves way to move out of the house so that the marriage takes place.
Meanwhile Sandhya quietly comes to his house and says she came to stay with the man she loved. Everbody believes. But she came there with a plan to divide father and son. How she tries to do it and fails and eventually goes into the den of the villain forms the rest of the story. The climax is how the father and son fight with villains and get her released.
 Chiranjeevi is the soul of the film as expected. That too he was playing two roles. But the father's character is given a light touch with an extended mustache and a bit of grey hair. They look more like twins. But the drama he exhibits in both roles carries mass audience impressively; Tabu gets a middle-aged woman's role and acquits herself well. The other girl Sandhya's role is well presented by Rimmie Sen interestingly. Sunil is brought in as relative of the contractor Prakashraj, who too supports Sandhya's plan to divide the family and finally leads her into villain's den. There are plenty of comedians including Brahmanandam, who together add to the comedy part of the film. Music by Devisri Prasad is very average. Though the film skipped one day of its scheduled release that did not make any difference in drawing crowds to the theatre.
- ASLESHA
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