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Kanulu
Musina Neevaye
Not
convincing
 Small-screen
director Manjula Naidu’s plot for her maiden film Kanulu Musina
Neevaye is unconvincing since a girl’s decision to kill her
lover’s look-a-like and claim insurance money to operate her
lover lacks credibility. Unfortunately, Archana falls in love with
his look-a-like and she is locked in a dilemma before her lover
sacrifices himself to unite her with his look-a-like. The imaginary
story would have been an ideal daily serial since films with contrived
twists have seldom succeeded.
Deepak and
his family have a lot of gratitude towards his uncle (Reddy) since
the latter helped them to reach a position. He also wants to get
his daughter married to Deepak. But Deepak falls in love with Archana
who rejects him and also files a complaint against him. Deepak earns
the wrath of his uncle for not marrying his daughter and he makes
Deepak a pauper. After some time, Archana understands his love and
agrees to marry him but Deepak fails to turn up on marriage day.
Archana comes to know that he has skipped the marriage since he
is suffering from the dreaded disease, leukemia. When she meet his
look-a-like, she decides to fake her love for him and later kill
him to claim insurance money for her lover’s operation. Unknowingly,
she falls in love with the look-a-like and before she can run her
car over him, a lorry runs him down. But at the end it is revealed
that her lover has sacrificed his life to save his look-a-like to
unite them.
After a long
time, we had a woman director in Telugu but unfortunately she falters
by choosing an unrealistic script and her dreams to make a mark
on big screen have to wait.
Neetho
Unrealistic
 In
an attempt to show debutant Suryaprakash as an all-rounder, director
John adds commercial elements and spoils an interesting point but
displays his mettle in the last 20 minutes. Suryaprakash, son of
ace director K Raghavendra Rao, has to improve a lot on his diction
and expressions while Mehak’s expressions are good at some
places. Since it’s a love story, the ideal interval twist should
have been the lovers ‘agreement’ and not the hero’s
flashback. Except for two numbers, Vidyasagar’s compositions
are very ordinary.
Surya, son
of business magnate Prakash Raj, decides to leave his palatial house
to lead a simple life and marry a girl who doesn’t like him
for his money. He leads a simple life and falls in love with Mehak
in college but she rejects him misjudging his true love. One day
he puts across a proposal and asks her to act as his lover for a
‘month’ and after that she can walk away if she doesn’t
like him. She agrees but after 30 days she walks away hurting him.
But soon she realises that she is love with him and after few tense
moments lovers unite at the airport.
The fusion
of action, dances and comedy with this sensitive love story doesn’t
jell since at times these ingredients counter the emotional drama
in the second half. Rao could have launched his son with a ‘star-centric’
film rather than opting for this unrealistic fusion.
—BVS
Prakash
Photos: A Mallikarjun Yadav
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