Telisi Teliyaka Telugu Movie Review

Grrrr….. Dhishhh….. dhamar…..zamrr……. ghazhi…..jhishikkkk……….. jadarrr……. Befiqr……….. XAPZJEW, MGTLOXO, PDAZYLTTMK…….
The above expressions make as much sense as this K Jaya Prakash imposition: Telisi Teliyaka. Not fair. Simply not fair. It calls for punitive response. Films normally make it to the juries. This deserves the Nuremberg trail or even the Guatemala.
If it is a Friday the recipe of yet another experimental indulgence with unknown experimental faces stares at you. This is clearly yet another instance of persons rushing before getting their act together. In a context this is a retro film in the real sense. It gives you a glimpse of how films must have been made early on when the talkies made their journey to the theatres. The film is also made keeping the multiplex in mind: the seating capacity is minimal; the eateries are many leaving you with enough choice to walk out and take your own time choosing from the many choices. You should be visiting a Mall in the midst of this kind of a movie. This is a film you get bored from the beginning, the very beginning.
The film maker (K Jaya Prakash) could well be sued for indulging in this except for the theory of Caveat emptor. He packs the just about 120 minutes into hours filled with torture: Chinese torture, concentration camp torture. Is this a ghost thriller, an adventure, ‘a marooned in the Isles romance promising to get hot’, or plain celluloid gibberish in its purest form? The film maker packs the tale with the awesome capacity to punch even the possible with the halo of the unreal.
To quote a pearl of wisdom from the film: All love stories do not have a happy ending. True, but this time round, assuming for a while that it is a love story, it is one with not a moment of happiness. Surely not for the gullible audience.
Four characters Vaishu, Suri, Naani and Satya decide to celebrate the birthday of Vaishu and take a boat ride to a secluded island in the midst of the Godavari. They spend the entire day in juvenile activities like building sand castles, playing blind man’s bluff etc. till they suddenly reliase that it is getting late and have to return home as they have all left for college and people back home do not know of this rendezvous. Crazy, stupid, naïve, plain obnoxious….
The worse is yet to come. The camera is always lingering suggestively at the unknown lurking danger round the corner. The four low ‘ iq ‘ones are blissfully unaware of the signs . The island only has one drunken guy who you guess is going to be the villain of the piece. Wait, we now have two inebriated lechers on the island and you know that rape and violenc is round the corner. No even that does not happen. So you move to the supernatural act of they being further marooned and the couples behaving like school kids at a party not knowing what to say and when to smooch. Enter host of the island: a Spirit, who is the best host you have ever known. Good ghost.
Come next morning they are back home and the parents behave as if nothing has happened. This surprises the victims. They soon realise that what they experienced at the island was a supernatural experience and a providential escape!!
Some time during the goings on in the haunted island one of the characters says: Anta ayomayam ga undi (Everything is very confusing!!). The other responds with eme artham katham ledu. This sums up the audience experience. Rarely does a film so accurately express the collective feel of the audience: Telisi Telliyaka.
I have always flattered myself of being a compassionate and fair employer till I forced my chauffeur to sit through this torture alongside me.