Experiment gone awry

Hidden in filmmaker Rajesh Puli is an Isaac Asimov. An Asimov gone wrong. The film is so wearisome and tiring. You realise that in this accidental juxtapositioning of the hippocampus with the power generating speed breaker on the road is the recipe for disaster.

When the viewer is made to go through over two hours of uninspiring goings on, the creeping thought that haunts is that expression and talent has somewhere made the exit. Talking to the team that was around, even details of the cast is not forthcoming which reflects how clueless the exercise has been. Even the PRO sounds lost and while one initially is surprised, after watching the film, the hesitation to part with information is understandable.

Two guys: Bunny or Karthik (Prince) and Cherry or Charan (Mahat) are contrasting personalities. While the former comes from an affluent background, is studious and imaginative, the latter comes from a middleclass family, lazy and adventurous. The script loiters in establishing their parallel stories. We have Karthik getting employed in a sinking concern where the head honcho (Melkote) is ever busy with poojas. He falls in love with Kavya (Saba) to whom he also plays tutor.

Charan is always with this gang of no-gooders including dubbing Gopi (Shashank Mouli). The meet accidentally- actually in an accident. Both are critically ill. In walks Dr Saxena (Suman) who for some reason is in a terrible mood and sulks throughout his screen presence.

He decides to deal with some kind of a ‘hippocampus’ transplant that leads to the persona of the two being interchanged. You arrive at “pigs have wings’ scenario. Instead of this leading to some rib tickling moments, it leads to some moronic instances. Now that we have had some physiological experimentation, our filmmaker moves to some physics and we have the idea of generating power by fixing simple machinery under every road speed breaker and producing power.

The disastrous combo leads to a piece of unbelievable storyline. The next hope line is the cast and they obviously are not structured or designed to the task. To begin with the two heroines: Saba and Kruti need not just career management support but also disaster management help. While the latter at least has screen presence, the former does not pretend to have any.

The support cast is mechanical as nothing more is expected of them. The two central characters to be fair, have very shoddily sketched characters to deal with. Their interpretation is matchingly sketchy. Prince is full of starch and has puppetry movements even in the choreographic moments.

Mahat as Cherry is energetic and tries his best to add some energy. He must get out of the Ravi Teja mould. If you don’t have a choice, make an excuse but this is surely avoidable stuff. -LRC