Trust Tollywood to mess up even with
a well sculpted script and get loud to a fault. Also, trust the film makers to
go overboard with loud and class less humour. Remember Vicky Donor (2012) where
the Director kept the hamming Annu Kapoor on leash and introduced the talented
Ayushman Khuranna to cinema!! We now have its local version with Vikram – Vicky
(Sumanth) who is loud and simply cannot shoulder the responsibility of carrying
a script gone wrong. Resultantly you have two hours of a film that simply does
not take off and every time it seems close to doing so, something erupts and
keeps matters under sea level.
The theme to the uninitiated is about the doctor Dr Anjaneyulu (Tanikella
Bharani) who thinks he is the midst of a class on human reproduction and is
shooting for a docu drama on the social advantages of sperm donations. He is
loud to a fault and is aggressively trying to stalk a prospective donor.
Serendipity leads him to meet up with Vicky an unemployed youngster, whose
sperm count is some record-breaking figure and therefore he tries every
pleading trick in the book to have him as the back bone of the fertility
clinic. The doctor has an assistant in Koti (Suman Shetty). Vicky has a Mom in
Sweetie (Srilakshmi) who runs a beauty parlour and keeps the kitchen fire
active. He also has a doting grandma who is always supporting him. Everyone in
the neighbourhood ridicule the youngster as he is unemployed. He however is
rich in his friends who indulge him and he is a party bird.
Enter Operation Sperm Donation and he gets rich overnight. Also, he runs into
Aashima Roy (a Pallavi Subash who has basics wrong), a Bengali who is a
divorcee who wears attitude on her sleeve. Before you can say Naruda donoruda
he is in love with her. Obviously he keeps his sperm story under wraps. When
she comes to know about it in a dramatic twist when she is told by the docs
that she has a obstetric condition that disenables her from being a biological
mother, and she sees the sperm donation as a confidence trick. For one who is
broad minded and educated, she not only sees sperm donation as an emotional
process but also accuses her husband of fathering children all over the place
and therefore being the emotional dad in town.
It takes just one dramatic act by Dr Anjaneyulu to knock some sense into her
head and for the film maker to sing off. In the meanwhile, we also have a
dramatic twist with the police arresting Vicky for having unaccounted wealth at
home and people in the neighbourhood ridiculing him for the unique profession he
has chosen.
What fails the film is that it refuses to keep things subtle and the acts of
how Sumanth goes through the initial hesitation are loud to a fault. Tanikella
Bharani is reported to have stated to a section of the media that this is an
important film in his career. I think the veteran actor has done far better and
more challenging roles with aplomb and has failed to carry put this outing with
class – so central to the film. This is the other huge draw back to the film.
Srilakshmi makes a comeback of sorts and does her role with the kind of comic
timing that is her speciality. Sumanth fails. As does Pallavi Subash. If you
think a film can attract you with the presence of Shetty go for this, otherwise
look for other alternative for the weekend.
Rating: 2 stars.
+ Return of Srilakshmi
– Loud
L. Ravichander.