Doosukelta Telugu Movie Review

The discouraging foot falls is a proper reflection on the quality of the film. With two and half hours stretching ahead of the viewer, resignation is advisedly an early sentiment. With a long calf love story for an intro and the narrator giving you clichéd one liners it is clear that this is going to be yet another yawn filled formulistic outing. Given that Tollywood builds its heroes to unbelievable scripts and the larger than life characters heroics is now predictable and common place. You are no longer impressed with the heroics you just gape in disbelief. Some stars have the glitter to take it and give you a near make believe with some others you see the guffaw and wonder what next,
It is so boring to see these multi-faceted heroes sing, dance, beat up goons, fall in love superbly strategize, defy all laws of human physiology, display dare, woo to succeed and do the impossible. The formula is getting so crass that it is a poor reflection on audience intelligence to make such packages and market them with hope and aggression. Why would a person with a modicum of sanity be ‘entertained’ by such contrived tale and storytelling style? Also why would one travel into such a laborious violent love story in the name of amusement? Some can sure part with their wealth with ease. The result is Doosukelta.
This love story emanates in a village where the adventurous Chinna falls for Alekhya. The latter is a child of a runaway marriage of her father Surendra (Rao Ramesh) the son of a feudal lord Pitcheshwar Rao (Kota). After a nerve wrecking childhood love story we have aspiring journalist Chinna (Vishnu) and medico Alekhya (Lavanya) being struck by cupid. There is a parallel love story between Veera Bramham (Brahmanandam) and Dr. Sandhya (Hema). While Sandhya is a tough-nut, Alekhya is the girl with a heart of gold and naivety personified. A member from the feudal family has since moved to the city and has become Minister Dilleshwar Rao (Pankaj Tripathi). For a short while we also have a doctor suitor loitering in and out of the script. All and sundry and more meet up at the palatial mansion of the aging Pitcheshwar Rao. Reels of romance, vendetta and palace intrigue are unleashed on predictable lines. In fact the narration is near template based. The film-maker chooses from his multiple choice alternatives and brews an insipid dish that is stale from the start.
The scenes are so boringly predictable that you can foresee everything that is going to happen and wish it did not. This factory product is typical of being a mass production produce designed for large scale consumption and not a piece of art or even piece of desirable cinema.
Veteran actors including Kota make signature presence. Lavanya brushes of the magic of Andala Rakshashi and slips with tragic ease into the stereotype now western, now half-saree Telugu village belle. She makes the commercial compromises and is out to do the normal. Hema has a role worth talking about and having lost weight adds the right glamour quotient to her role and is among the better performers in the film. The usual comic team of Ali, Raghu Babu, Master Bharat, Giri, Potti Venu etc., just are space fillers. Manchu Vishnu makes a great effort to enliven the film. It is an effort worth noticing but ends up aping Hrithik Roshan. The one point reference for the film will however be Brahmanandam. He too takes time to warm up but once in his element, he is the singular factor that keeps you from dosing off. Doosukelta is all about rush and lack of discretion. It is about angels fearing to tread where others rush