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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Premiste True Story Gets Bland Finish Rating: *** (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Bharat, Sandhya, Sukumar, Arunkumar, Dandapani and Others. Lyrics: Veturi. Music: Joshua Sridhar. Story, Screenplay & Direction: Balaji Shaktivel. Presenter: Shankar. Producer: Suresh Kondeti. Banner: SK Pictures. Release Date: 12th October, 2005.  This film is journalist–turned-producer's attempt to make a bang with this first attempt. This young man Suresh Kondeti rightly chose a Tamil film and a safe path to make a debut as producer. The Tamil hit 'Kadhal' is dubbed into Telugu as 'Premiste'. It is an out-and-out youth subject and points out at the dangers that eloping lover pairs might face. We are reading in newspapers day in day out about the tragic situations the lovers are placed in, due to caste, creed, legion and economic differences. Tragedy has always been the finishing note for such stories. Shankar in his prologue in this film says he made this film as producer and his assistant as director, taking a real life incident that occurred in Tamilnadu. And this film is obviously made to attract youth. In fact you don't find proper reasons why a boy and a girl fall in love that fast and why such a tragic end is arrived at. But one good thing is both the lovers are kept alive.Murali (Bharat) is a mechanic. He stopped his education after passing his fourth class. But the girl (Iswarya) is in college. Both fall in love for no reason. And the incident that brought them together involves a policeman, who is shown training the girl in directing the traffic. Murali travels on that side and falls due to the girl's improper guidance. He abuses her and disappears. In the process his hand also falls on hers when lifting the vehicle. A dialogue then says that his touch was so thrilling to her she instantly fell in love with him. Quite for some time he keeps her at a distance, for the basic reason that she hails from a rich and influential family. But in the taking part and the expressions and treatment, it never reflected that element of reality. A day comes when her parents plan to get her married to an NRI and a betrothal was in progress. She quietly slips out of the house and straight goes to Murali and forces him to elope with her. While they were traveling in a bus she recalls how and why they fell in love. This part is told as flashback.  The second stage of drama is as expected. The parents and other family members of both the boy and the girl are worried. Her father is a small time Don. Whenever he moves a dozen vans follow him. His brother, whose one hand was chopped off, perhaps in a previous fight, is his mentor and finally traces the lovers. By that time they marry before a temple with the help of a friend. Chennai is the backdrop for this drama. Her uncle coaxes the married couple to return with them. They believe him and return. The moment they are back at her house, her father and his men severely beat him up and drive him away. Then they get her married to a person of their choice. The next scene opens showing Iswarya and her husband on a motor bike with their child in her hands. As they pass by, she suddenly notices a mad man behaving odd. She recognized him as her lover Murali. She gets down and starts weeping bitterly with guilty conscience as she forced him into love and elopement. Thus ends the drama.For some the finish looks quite tame. But Shankar's statement says they wanted to give that finish, sticking to the real incident. Bharat and Sandhya perform with ease keeping to the mood of the characters. The humor element is totally absent though the film employs a couple of comedians. But scenes are not properly written. They are kept in pathetic situations mostly. All the artistes are from Tamil film industry, not much known to us. And that Tamil atmosphere partly prevails in the film, rightly so because the incident happened in Tamilnadu. The song part is interesting and the lyrical part stuck to the mood of the situations. The film is quite engaging but has an undercurrent of pathos. It has prospects of running well if the finish given to the theme is well taken. The events shown in the film never encourage loving pairs, who watch the movie. |