Date:08/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/08/stories/2008030857690200.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Another one bites the dust

Uday Kiran and Dia in ‘Lakshmi Putrudu’

Film: Lakshmi Putrudu

Cast: Uday Kiran, Dia

Direction: Raj Kapoor

Uday Kiran hits rock bottom with another worst film of his career. With an actress who looks twice his age, Uday Kiran struggles to play a doting son and a part-time lover.

While the first half of the film is devoted to showing Uday Kiran tracing his father (Satyaraj), the post-interval throws light on how Satyaraj turns mentally unstable.

The film emphasises on the father-son relationship and long drawn discussions on treatment so much that one thinks the hero of the film is Satyaraj and the film is made to advertise ayurvedic medicines from Kerala.

Also no effort has been made to give it a Telugu touch and as such it just does not connect with the audience.

Too many plots make the film confusing like the love story, Satyaraj’s past, a brief history of his adversaries, politics et al. Brahmanandam’s spoof on Rajnikant and his dialogues from Sivaji fails to elicit laughs, and his work is outdated and dumb.

He is a beloved comedian but his inclusion here just adds insult to a very injurious piece of imitation.

Dia, the leading lady, has nothing much to do than being a participant to Uday Kiran’s antics and rooting for him in dream duets. Watch the film only if you want to have a fleeting glimpse of Shakeela and Mumait Khan and know how far the filmmakers can go to put a full stop to the Tamil flavoured drama. An uninspiring script, bad narration, jerky editing and photography add to the misery.

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY