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Guys and gals sans spice
STOOPING LOW: A blatant abuse of the medium.
Ammayilu Abbayilu (TELUGU)
Cast: Vijay, Mohit, Sonu Sood, Devina, Vidya, Swapna Madhuri
Mus: Chakri
Dir: Ravibabu
ACTOR RAVIBABU turned director with Allari, which was a fairly good film but now with this present film he shows off his true colours - that of a director who has to bank on `sex' to meet with success. He did almost the same with Allari, but that was in a low key Ammayilu, Abbayilu is a blatant abuse of the medium. The director appears to have been unloading what he has seen in Hollywood comedies, and the result is utterly tasteless. It is all about three boys and two girls, living in a locality called Srinagar Colony. You find none in that colony but for the production unit members, their main artistes and junior and sub-junior artistes. The street setting in Ramoji Film City with two arrays of houses divided by a road is used as backdrop for most of the drama. The story is divided into half a dozen cuts, as if narrated by a stranger (Lakshmipati), found on location. There is no continuity to the narration. The entire film is made as if it is the imagination of this stranger. The narration runs through different tracks. One of this is a father-son duo. The second is that of a woman trying to please her husband, doing a fashion parade before him. A third is this tall and fat woman having a short husband and shorter son, and the fourth, a drunkard (Sreenu) creating scenes everywhere. There is also a dog chasing Prasad (Vijay) mostly. And there is Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam in different roles in different situations. There is also a ghost like character appearing and disappearing, created only to tease Prasad.
Prasad has a friend named Sanjay (Mohit), who always protects him, from attacks, led by one Rakesh (Sonu Sood). There is Anju (Vidya) who loves Sanjay, but there is another girl who's also trying to seduce him. The entire drama is reduced to a single point of who would marry Anju. The contender to hold her hand is her father's (Chalapati Rao) relative, Rakesh, whom we find earlier in many a brawl. Similarly, who will choose Prasad as their lover/husband is another issue at the end.
It is not a film to be taken seriously nor to get entertained. . The cast is full of new faces and is difficult to find who plays which role. Histrionically speaking they are all a set of amateurs. Known artistes like M.S.Narayana, Chalaparti Rao, Surya are put in insignificant roles. Artwork and settings dominate the technical support. But they look outlandish. M.B.Joshi's photography is interesting.
GUDIPOODI SRIHARI
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