Calamity like Hudhud

Yet again money and desire get the better part of talent. Totally bereft of any absorbing moment and contrived to a fault we have a tale that does not last its short 110 minutes of run. While the idea of a tale and its manner of interpretation is all the call of the filmmaker, the fact that he chooses to tread a familiar story path and then gets to a very ordinary journey exposes him to strong comments. However, what is worse is that the film does not even evoke a strong statement. You are just indifferent to it all.

The protagonist Leelavathi (Ishita Vyas) a night before Hudhud hits Visakhapatnam starts making blank calls and finds her gullible victim in Suresh (Karthik) a guy working in a software company. They hardly meet up and soon find themselves in a hot embrace and seconds after the act of seduction they are in bed. As nature is exposing its fury on Vizag, the lovers blissfully unaware are in their own Garden of Eden. Soon thereafter Leelavathi realises that Suresh is married. Suresh’s wife Sumathi (Divya) is unaware of the new entrant in the matrimonial scene. Friends Mahesh (Mahesh) and FM Babai now abet extra marital relationships and aplenty. Now the threesome act as if they are starved and ogle at women like adolescents watching soft porn.

When Suresh attempts to wriggle out of the relationship he realises that Leelavathi is made of stern stuff and she sure has a few aces up her sleeve. She stalks him and decides to avenge the one night stand – never mind she being the provocateur. The story moves on familiar lines with her befriending Sumathi, winning her confidence and threatening Suresh that she would spill the beans. On the parallel track we have Mahesh and FM Babai flesh chasing without cause or merit and the whole tale of a stance on gender divide that borders on being pathological.

We head to climax where we have Sumathi and Leelavathi shooting and fighting. So the great innovation that filmmaker Suneel Kumar Reddy indulges is to get the ladies fighting in the climax and gun shots from them instead of the guys doing it. However, the product of this imaginative difference is so amateur that you are left gasping.

The outing is at your own risk. The film has hardly a moment or facet-worth recommending. The cast spreads its mediocrity and leaves it with the crew to get things moving. Ishita Vyas has a dream role coming her way and she tries hard. However, the script falls apart and beyond a point she is a victim to the script and the filmmaker’s idea of a film. The rest of the cast is not worth talking about save Mahesh who works up a professional outing. The footage of what Hudhud did to Vizag is the only absorbing part of the film. It is just as entertaining as an unwanted natural calamity.