The film maker decides to tell two
stories. One of a young couple who fall in love and have to defy social and
financial norms to make it to the altar. The other is a spoof on the film
industry. The twain but meet tangentially at the end and the problem with the
film is its huge failure to execute an interesting idea into a good film. This
notwithstanding the acting skills of the cast only reflects that the film maker
E Satti Babu has let go of a wonderful opportunity. A spoof is always about
degree. One who makes a parody must necessarily watch how Hrishikesh Mukherjee
made his films. When you go overboard and loud you lose the plot and that is
exactly what happens with MEK.
Rich Dad (Murali Sharma) ridicules the groom in waiting Prashant (Naveen
Chandra – yet another decent performance). His daughter Priya (Shruti Sodi) who
has hitherto wooed with guts is a mute witness when Papa puts his foot down. Rich
Dad however is willing to take up a challenge and face defeat for once to
understand what happiness is and how it is different form contentment. He thus
goes about planning a flop film with the guidance of a rich guy who lost it all
in the film industry – Tata Rao (Posani). They engage a flop film maker Rold
Gold Ramesh (Raghu Babu) and his assistant Yadgiri (Darling Srinu) to make a
flop film. The hero and heroine take the back seat and the making of the film
occupies the entire screen space in the post interval narrative. The film maker
chooses an ageing actor to play an adolescent who has just passed tenth class
and joins a junior college. So we have the actor (Pruthvi Raj) playing Mahesh
and he falls in love with class mate Samanta (Saloni Ashwani) Samantha’s dad
would have nothing to do with the romance and sends his goons. Mahesh’s dad
(Jaya Prakash Reddy) is the feudal head of the agricultural family who is
sceptical of his son going to college. Now we have a detailed film built up in
the film and the spoof are aplenty and the pot shots taken at Telugu cinema
arrive not a minute late. They however fail because they get too loud and
exaggerated and fail in quality attack of the state of cinema. Finally, we have
the film maker and the producer waiting for the film to turn turtle and find
that it gets all the media attention and becomes a huge success. The film maker
thus has a go even at the media and the public who brazenly accept thrash in
the name of good cinema.
Prithvi in the second half ensure that the film belongs to him and he does his
very best. He is willing to have a huge laugh at himself and this is
interesting form the stand point of an artist. The rest of the cast is
predictable and have an automated approach to the film. Loud to a fault this is
an opportunity going abegging.
Rating: 1.5 stars
+ Humour
– Humour
L. Ravichander.