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Of love and crime
TOO LONG: Revathi (centre) is the saving grace.
Eeswar (TELUGU)
Cast: Prabhas, Sridevi, Revathi, Ashok Kumar
Dir: Jayanth C. Paranji
Music: R.P. Patnaik
PRABHAS, NEPHEW of Union Minister U. Krishnam Raju, makes his debut with this film. So does Sridevi, yesteryear heroine Manjula's daughter.
The young hero is tall, handsome with good physique and body language to help him stay in the industry.
However, he needs to improve his diction and dialogue delivery, though his natural ease and spontaneity in reacting to situations make him a promising artiste. Sridevi looks innocent, and lacks the vivacity to play heroine in this kind of bold love themes.
Jayanth is a director with good taste but appears to have been searching for a viable formula to make a love story a great success. As for the story, Eeswar (Prabhas) is the son of a manufacturer (Sivakrishna) of illicit liquor, called `gudumba'.
Everything he gets to see in college or in Internet Cafés arouses his curiosity.
In fact, this element forms the basic strength of the film's humour and the main source of entertainment.
Paruchuri brothers write these scenes well, catering to the mass taste. Eeswar becomes close to his college-mate Indira (Sridevi), daughter of the highly influential and status-conscious M.L.A. (played by Ashok Kumar, the producer of the film too).
The opening scene establishes the M.L.A. as a hater of poor people, by playing up the love story of his son with a poor girl where the girl is brutally murdered. He behaves like any filmi villain.
As soon as the politician learns of his daughter's love affair, he wants to eliminate Eeswar and destroy the whole gudumba area.
In such a crime drama, the characters of policemen should have been a little more serious, than the way they are projected in the film.
The bunch of policemen is made to look like a set of fools.
That apart, the storyline, too, is taken beyond the limits of possibilities and realities, for the sake of entertainment.
A little more care in streamlining the climax part of the story would have made the drama look sensible and different.
The film has been unnecessarily stretched too far and beyond the three-hour limit too.
Most notable among the character artistes is the presence of Revathi, an actress loved by Andhra audience.
But she is given a stepmother's role to the hero, always ridiculed by him. Revathi is the only saving grace and makes the film look decent.
Music by Patnaik displays his bias for folk tunes. Paruchuri Brothers' dialogue helps the drama .
GUDIPOODI SRIHARI
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