Film: Chukkalanti Ammayi Chakkanaina Abbayi
Rating: 1/5
Banner: Supreme Movies
Cast: Tarun, Vimala Raman, Brahmanandam, Pragathi and others
Music: Anoop Rubens
Cinematographer: S Arun Kumar
Editor: Gautham Raju
Screenplay, direction: Kanmani
Producers: Gogineni Srinivas, Rajkumar Hirwani
Release date: 25/05/2013
Lover boy Tarun who has almost packed his bags from the industry is now arriving with another do or die attempt. This time he has teamed up with Vimala Raman. Let us see if they are successful.
Story
Set on backdrop of Bangkok, Sanjay (Tarun) is a happy go lucky guy who believes in enjoying life and work less. He chances upon Sameera (Vimala Raman) and falls in love with her. Sameera is more responsible and hardworking girl with serious clarity in life. Anyways, Sanjay woos her in different ways and finally they fall in love. But his carefree attitude brings doubt in their relationship so Sanjay proposes to have a live-in with Sameera so that she can see his commitment. What happens from there forms the rest of the story.
Performances
Tarun may have lost his demand but he has not lost his skills. His confidence and body language is good and he scores well in emotional sequences.
Vimala Raman is nothing short of a sex goddess. The sex appeal on her face makes her very desirable and she does her part well. She catches attention as long as she is onscreen.
Brahmanandam came and went, Pragathi was usual, Chitram Seenu was good, Vijay Sai was natural, Kasi Viswanadh was neat, Raksha was brief, others didn’t have scope.
Highlights:
- Nothing
Drawbacks:
- Everything
Analysis:
If there was any place where one can see stars in daylight all these years is Planetarium. But today, it was proven that even a film can beat planetariums.
The film was due for release few years back but various hiccups in financial dealings, repeated postponements and other challenges stopped it. Anyways, it has finally come out. But the biggest pain is it came in hot mid summer leaving no scope for audience to walk out from theater for the fear of sun stroke.
The problem is with the subject and the way it has been handled.
Though the backdrop chosen was foreign, it would be hard for audience here to accept it. Still, moving forward, love stories need to have a deft handling of script and they must be able to bring out that right kind of emotional juice when the time comes. Most of the times, the track is predictable as there were not enough twists.
The other drawback is entertainment quotient. Except Tarun, rest of the cast including Brahmanandam, Pragathi, Dharmavarapu had some unknown voices for dubbing. It was carried by some mimicry artiste who couldn't do the right job. The comedy track was very weak and silly.
The film takes off on a right note and the chemistry between Tarun and Vimala was appealing but the plot was out in no time and didn’t have much to offer for the audience.
Added to that, some hiccups like Tarun working as a VJ in a Telugu channel in Bangkok, stating the story is in Bangkok but showing half of it in Pattaya, the difference of opinion between both were not that convincing. Overall, this is a film which could have shaped well if those loose ends were strong.
At the box office, the film might fizzle out without much noise because it came without no noise.
Bottomline: Hard to even sit at home and watch it in TV
(Venkat can be reached at [email protected] or https://twitter.com/greatandhranews)
