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Love stories are dime-a-dozen on celluloid. ‘Hrudayam Ekkadunnadi’ is another such love story which released on Saturday. It is an all debutante one – with the actors, directors and even the music directors making their maiden entry on the big screen. This film starring Krishna Maadhav, Samskruthi and Anusha helmed by Vi Anand is quite a breezy one dealing with the confusion of the lead young protagonist. The film has all the commercial ingredients like songs, emotions, scenes which perhaps the youth can relate to, an earnest performance by Krishna Maadhav, some meaningful scenes and dialogues but somehow at the end turns like routine fare.

Maadhav, (Krishna Maadhav) an architect meets Gayatri (Samskruthi) many years after school. He had always liked her in school. The two meet regularly and Gayatri makes her father (played by Ahuthi Prasad) give Maadhav the job of building and doing the interiors of the new branch of their restaurant. This way Gayatri feels it would be easy to convince her father about Maadhav as she wants to marry him. She is pretty dominating – dictating what he should do every time. While on the other hand, the workers do not co-operate with him. In this situation, a confused Maadhav meets Nithya (Anusha) who stays next to the construction site. These two bond over coffee regularly. Maadhav is also attracted to Nithya. The confusion in his mind continues. What Maadhav does and whom he chooses forms the rest of the film.

The director portrays the confusion in Maadhav’s (relate to youth) mind and tries to deal it at a simplistic level. A film is built on a wafer-thin idea and therefore one can expect it to lack depth. The characters don’t evoke much connect or empathy from the audience. The film is slow to start with. The director could have perhaps paid more emphasis in execution – in conceptualising the story and screenplay better. The run time thankfully is just 10 minutes above two hours Maadhav does a fairly good job overall. Though he seemed a bit hesitant in the beginning his acting picked up as the film moved along. He has put in an earnest and sincere effort though he could do with some improvement in the future. Perhaps a better script would have ensured a better performance. Both the heroines Samskruthi and Anusha were okay in their roles.

Some songs composed by Vishal Chandrasekhar (a product of AR Rahman’s school) were tuneful to hear. The production values were pretty decent. The cinematography by Prasad needs mention.