This is a heading nowhere saying nothing film. The young boy meets young (?)
girll love story on campus invites but a long yawn. The latest permutation of
the guy meet gal may have a few Hindi references including a badly done song
showing snowing mountains – a la Yash chopra but finally the product that
simply refuses to move and at best jerks its way to the conclusion. 149 minutes
is just too long to keep the audience interested or involved in how two
musically gifted graphemes have a lot of time to waste and tide to swim with.
If nothing the film is a fine defense for civic authorities not to repair their
potholes so that people can express their love. GHMC Zindabad. What do we say
Pather Pachali, now Pyar mein..!!
There is got be a twist to the love story. What is going to keep the lovers
away from each other to get the viewer back after the interval? It can be as
weird and juvenile as a grabbed video camera depriving Lady love of Maa ki
Mamta.
Pyar mein is committed to its title and is accurate to its verb. A fall!! It
holds no interest and the love story that unfolds is a paid voucher of boredom.
An exercise in ineptitude. Our film makers simply refuse to visit a college
campus and have eldritch hopes. Yet again the premise of a on campus love story
is busted with ridiculous scenes and total lack of credibility. With
imperfections and inadequacies aplenty, this is not what you want to defy the
simmering summer or the shock rain and head to the theatres. For the filmmaker
both ambition and art must be backed by sterner stuff. From the tunes to the
tale everything has ‘it has all happened unrealistically even before’ feel. Not
a sense of déjà vu , just a tiring encore.
The hero and heroine have music in common and love each other. At college they
realise that they also have to take the academic examination. Having done so,
they go about an ambitious project of releasing a CD with the assistance of
cameo playing characters like a Bappi Lahri look alike Janaradhan (Pridhvi) who
is also lecherous, his assistant Duvassi Mohan. An aspirant to matrimony
however plays villain. Now there is a little secret that our hero Chandra (Adi)
holds against his lady love Yukta (Shanvi) and it is something as puerile as
revenge and life full of hatred for a guy who in childhood thieved a camera. We
know even before it all begins that of course the lovers will unite. So robbed
of the surprise element you look for novelty and find your self twice deprived.
With a song without reason script meandering from one song sequence to another
interpolating a string strong story line you know that this is not a sane
choice. After the Kumbh mela, the missing brothers and the family song, you now
have milkmen as carriers of the uniting song. That much for novelty!!
The lead pair are mismatched. Shanvi makes faces and calls it acting. If only
even acting techniques were available at the boutique!! Aadhi places the
central character and does all he can to add energy and fizz to the ‘expiry
date’ product. The fact that the presence of the film cast made more noise at
the theatre than in the film is a reflection on the product. The script meets
photo shop climax is ludicrous to state it mildly. The one bright spot in the
film is the comedy interlude involving Thagubotu Ramesh. A tiring outing.
Rating : 1 and half star.
+ Adhi and Tagubothu Ramesh.
– Trite and hackneyed treatment.
L. Ravichander.