KERINTA
A whiff of fresh air marks the film. Interestingly treated, sculptured and
narrated. Credit must go to Sai Kiran Adivi for giving the college scenario a
sincere touch and eschew the hackneyed approach of crass jokes and 30 year olds
doing the main role as a college student. Never mind the rough edges of the non
star actors and their initial communication with the camera. He shows that even
within the limited parameters of Tollywood a tale can be fresh and viewable.
Never mind if the film is just that.
Three love stories. They deal with ‘relationships’. This comes a week after Dil
Dhadakne Do. Different peoples, different orbits and styles, different
treatment, different takes. Yet all deal with relationships in a metro world of
gloss and a clear departure from the not so distant past. A film that does not
add embarrassment to the archive shelf.
Three love stories: Jai (Sumant Ashwin) in a group of five is the first to find
love. On a bus journey. Love literally flashes when he sees Manaswani (Sri
Divya) a doctor in training. While romance is his life, she is focused on a
career with dreams of doing research Down Under. After an initial summary
rejection she warms up to him and finally makes the choice in favour of love.
You do not expect our film makers to dare!! But then…
Sid (Vishwanath) has a mother (Pragati) who rules the home with an iron fist as
she is the Principal of a college. He does not dare to tell her his passion for
music and his love for Priya (Tejaswini). While she places a great premium on
honesty, it is a major casualty in the list of Sid’s priorities. The clash is
when Priya realises that she is in love with a guy who cannot stand up and
would rather crawl to convenience and stand to protest. Would she dare to give
him the boot? Surely no, but then…
Nooka Raju (Paravateesam) comes from a rural background to the campus and
looses his heart to a FB friend not realising that love is waiting in the form
of Bhavna (Sukeerti) the other girl in the group. He takes her for granted and
in a moment of fury questions her right to invade into his privacy. This breaks
the relationship between the two. After being cheated by the FB friend he comes
to terms with life and then the self respecting girl would ideally show him the
door but then….
But then the film maker is talking about the times when we have forgotten a
full throated laugh for our joys, when we have forgotten to shed tears at our
sorrows. Times when agony and ecstasy are synthetic. Return to the real is the
plea. The cast is interesting and sincere. But standing out are Parvateesam,
Sumanth Ashwin and the awesome Sukeerti. All three have great promise and
hopefully we would see more of them. It is a refreshing outing just as the
monsoon arrives. Good news for Telugu cinema.
Rating: 3 stars
– Some performances and clichés
+ Treatment and freshness
L. Ravichander.