Director Vasant Diwakar tells you that you cannot ever forget your first
love (yawn!). The first love, like your first job and first bicycle is what
nostalgic is all about (yawn again!!) and if one woos his lady love with
consistency she is bound to reciprocate (now do not even yawn!). Tripe and
trite, bewilderingly bemoaning, this love story is a singular disservice to the
concept of love. It is dated, contrived and discouragingly dead pan. It is a
keep away film.
Structurally deficit, bereft in drama, hackneyed in content this is genuinely a
much ado about nothing indulgence labouring to the get the guy and gal
together. Wanting in any dramatic content (a qualifying factor to fiction – one
would assume in the context) the linear narration leads to a contrived final
moment where the climax is more a comedy.
Sidhu entertains calf love for class mate Mahalakshmi, smitten by the love bug
in class VI with a love at first sight scene that would make even the
adolescent of the day blush with embarrassment. Lives with the idea of his love
through adolescence finds a job for himself and gets for a bonus a group of
most nondescript, uninspiring pals. Sidhu (Jonalagadda Sidhu) runs into
Mahalakshmi (Nikhita – who would not muster a strict view even in a school
play!!) and finds an excuse to perpetuate the idea of romance with the name.
However he quickly shows signs of withdrawal symptoms unable to exorcise
memories of his calf love. This Mahalakshmi is the most eves dropping piece of
cardboard ever created who walks in and out with incredulity. Out she goes. How
Sidhu is on the mission to find the original Mahalakshmi (Kanika Tiwari). He of
course finds her with the assistance of RJ Bokka (Praveen). He now goes about
wooing her till she says yes. On the way you have some more template scenes
leading to the climax where he meets with an accident and recovers to marry
her.
Now with a script that is so insipid you would expect the cast and crew to back
up and make a film out of the script. They are however in perfect tandem with
the script and the result is that you are constantly looking for the exit. The
cast calls for no specific mention. Yes in a script where Surya as the father
of the heroine is the best performer you know that you have made the wrong
choice if entertainment is the idea. Only Kanika Tiwari tries hard and succeeds
to inject some energy. The one bright spot in the film is the music by Guru
Raj. It is a film you could at best be way laid into seeing.
L. Ravichander.