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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Happy Enjoyable Drama Aslesha | January 27, 2006 Rating: **** (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Allu Arjun, Genelia, Manoj Bajpai, Brahmanandam, Tanikella Bharani, Venu Madhav, Jahnavi, Ramaprabha and Others. Art: Chinna. Cinematography: RD Rajasekhar. Dialogues: Kona Venkat. Editing: Anthony. Fights: Vijay. Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja. Presenter: Padmasri Allu Ramalingaiah. Producer: Allu Aravind. Story, Screenplay & Direction: A. Karunakaran. Banner: Geeta Arts. Release Date: 27th January, 2006.  The very 'titles' presentation, using graphic art, itself sets the mood of the drama matching the title given to the film. It is indeed a kind of light heartedness that pervades the drama, with sensuous mischief of the hero dominating the show. Tanikella Bharani playing the role of Subbu, a relative of Suryanarayana, a small time Don of the area, discusses about the issue of the transfer of a DCP Ratnam from the area. Ratnam, in short, is the typical example of a goonda in police uniform. Suryam gets him transferred. The role of Ratnam ends there and he surfaces only towards the end.Ramapraha plays Suryam's mother. And the Don has a daughter called Madhulatha (Genelia). She is studying medicine and is on a tour to Araku valley. It is here that she encounters for the first time the hero of the plot Bunny (Arjun), a total stranger to her. The director intelligently introduces the character of Bunny, as if he is responding to her "love you", with a "thanks", when she actually addressed it to a koel that is sweetly cooing from branches above. From this scene onwards, you watch a mischievous Bunny in action. He is found again back at Medical College canteen in Visakhapatnam. And in a couple of scenes later we find him as a Pizza seller.  The story thus opened takes a few twists and ends up revealing to us that Bunny deeply loves Madhu, while she is at loss, not knowing how to pursue her studies as her father would sure stop her from going to college, if he learns that a young man is trying to enter into her life. At the same time she is slowly getting attracted to the young man. She has two big problems – one is to manage this young man and the other is to face her menacing father Suryam. Meanwhile her father learns, from his stooges, that she was sitting behind a young man riding a scooter. Then, he also finds a love letter in her book, which in fact is not addressed to her, but to her friend by her boy friend. This one scene changes the complex of the whole drama, bringing in to the scene, the third most important actor Manoj Bajpai playing an eccentric role of a DIG, but with a good heart. It is with him that her father Suryam fixed her marriage. He also orders her to stop going to the college.But Madhu is bent upon continuing her studies and a flashback reveals that she promised to her dying mother that she would be a doctor one day. Bunny too is disturbed on knowing this. How he solves her problem and also his problem and then faces the rowdy police Ratnam towards the end, forms the rest of the theme, interestingly narrated.  The scenes showing how Manoj changes his mind and becomes a good Samaritan and stands by the lovers is interestingly narrated. Manoj gives fine performance and his role in the film is different from what he has done earlier. Allu Arjun proves a fine actor now and has developed a style of his own that suits his psyche too. He is the strength of the drama and unlike, in other love themes, the heroine too gains importance in this drama. She too has a goal. The character of police officer Ratnam is built to such menacing heights that Arjun's fight against him wins the admiration of the audience. Music is to the point. It is always linked to thematic appeal and hence goes well with the drama. All the songs are well tuned. Photography and editing are worth mentioning that also render the film a sure winner.
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