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A chance gone abegging
She even spells it out clearly to the love sick duo that her love interest is someone else. Taking up this knot of a situation, director Avasarala Srinivas attempts to spin a 106-minute movie, padding up his basic plot with brotherly tiffs, tugs of emotional sequences, misunderstandings and takes the flashback route on and off.
Two brothers (Nara Rohith and Naga Shourya) fall for the same girl (Regina Cassandra), yet refuse to admit to each other that they are in love with her.Quite expectedly, both of them try to put up their best individually before the amused woman whenever they get a chance, who enjoys the attention but keeps herself aloof from the desperadoes.
She even spells it out clearly to the love sick duo that her love interest is someone else. Taking up this knot of a situation, director Avasarala Srinivas attempts to spin a 106-minute movie, padding up his basic plot with brotherly tiffs, tugs of emotional sequences, misunderstandings and takes the flashback route on and off.
On the face of it, what could have finally emerged as a watchable entertainer, having begun well with a series of well-timed comedy sequences tapers out into a routine, directionless film as Avasarala tries too hard to keep the audience engaged with parallel sub-plots.
The heavy built Rohith, playing the big brother and whose abilities at emoting and carrying a role of any magnitude have always been under a cloud does what he can, and that is not enough. Naga Shourya is watchable, but his abilities too are clearly confined to a range which is what his role demands.
As the story is depicted occasionally in flashback, the roles of the wives (as the brothers are shown married right at the start) are merely ornamental and worse, stereotypically domesticated types.If they are there for a purpose that is only to show that they are unable to digest the past of their respective spouses in which Regina plays a prominent role.
The proceedings thus move on listlessly, when there are relationship troubles between the siblings and it worsens to such a situation where they atone for it on a railway platform at the climax to realise that they need to stick together, come hell or heavy water.
Meanwhile, the members of the audience, having endured dated, insufferable melodrama towards the end heave a sigh of relief. A nice, fluffy kind of a film was what it could have been, only if the comedy and light moments could have been executed better.
Jo Achyutananda
Cast : Nara Rohith, Naga Shourya and Regina
Direction : Srinivas Avasarala
Genre : Drama
