December 04, 2009 Y. Sunita Chowdary
Cast: Jagapati Babu, Priyamani, Hamsa Nandini, Brahmanandam, Dharmavarapu, Suneel, Chalapati Rao and others.
Banner: Tolly2Holly Films.
Cinematography: Surendra Reddy.
Editing: MR Verma.
Lyrics: Chaitanya Prasad.
Music: MM Keeravani.
Producer: Ganesh Indukuri.
Story, Screenplay, Dialogues & Direction: Madan.
Release Date: December 04, 2009
Don't give perplexed looks if you walk into the theatre not knowing the meaning of Pravarakhyudu. Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam explains the word in detail a little late but it does clear your doubts. Madan has come up with an easy-going, interesting and a good screenplay that revolves around two adults. Jagapati Babu is analytical, practical, cool and a sensible man whereas Priyamani is sensitive, impetuous. An incident separates them while in college and after a few years they work in the same college. Jagapati as Sashi Kumar and Priyamani as Sailaja share wonderful chemistry and both of them as college students and little later as principal and professor make the story very engaging.
Sashi Kumar's character is interesting. He's straight, no love letters and no hesitation when he proposes to Sailaja. He even explains to her that there is nothing such as love and that it is hormones that attract two living things, it is the society that has created certain mores and customs to control the animal instinct and has given it a legal status called marriage to cohabit. Love could arise anytime or there could be no love at all. Sailaja finds the explanation unsettling and cannot imagine a relationship without love and finds the hero's character full of hypocricy.
A simple concept such as this has been shown in a very simple manner and it could be a rewarding experience for college students who are going through the first flush of love/attraction. Jagapati Babu does his bit too vary his looks and his performance is endearing and stands out. He plays the indifference to perfection. Priyamani is growing as an actress with every film and has taken her character's ego, haughtiness and peculiarity to another level by giving the right expressions. Brahmanandam is funny, never take sit too far, just right as a man who carries tales to Priyamani.
The film is not crowded with dozens and dozens of characters, each of them do their part well. Madan keeps you amused, happy with a wafer-thin plot, it's light-hearted, no excessive sobbing and heavy dialogues. Watch this film as there is no over dose of anything, there's some fresh energy about the actor who is known as the Prime Star who's threatening to cross his prime.
About the flaw, every person is different, their attitudes, thinking is varied and that is what makes each individual special. If Sashi Kumar had remained the way he was and if Sailaja accepted him for the reasons she rejected him initially, it would have been a marriage of the mind, body and soul. The movie would have been perfect. But Madan chose to succumb to the pressure of showing the hero in positive manner, wanted to justify why he behaves that way, by including giving a kidney transplant story that made the film look ordinary in the end and making the audience feel if being indifferent to love and not being articulate or expressive is a crime.
This film is a mature love story, for all those whose hormones are active, and also for those who suffer from illusion that physical attraction is love. An engaging love story.
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