Film: Godava
Rating: 2.75/5
Cast: Vaibhav, Shradhdha Arya, Venu Madhav, Chalapathi Rao, Delhi Rajeshwari, Shayaji Shinde, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Annapurna, Brahmanandam, AVS etc
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Art: JK Murthy
Camera: Dinesh
Producer: A. Bharathi
Screenplay, Direction: Kodanda Rami Reddy
Released On: 7th Dec 2007
Story:
Anjali (Shradhdha Arya) is the daughter of a rich man who studies in a college. Balu (Vaibhav) also studies in the same college. Balu hates to love any girl and there will be a personal reason for that.
His parents marry after love, but keep on fighting everyday. Hence he wants to get married only in arranged way. After a few routine dramatic incidents Anjali happens to fall in love with Balu but she understands that Balu is against love.
Then she plays various tricks to make Balu fall in her trap. Finally the climax can be easily imagined. There is no big story in the film other than this.
Performance:
The film ran within the formula track and Vaibhav tried to showcase enough of his talent although a debut. He has ease in dialogue delivery and needs to work more on expressions.
New entrant Shradhdha Arya has only fair skin but not anything interesting. It is difficult for her to have long life on silver screen with the acting prowess she has shown in this film.
Dialogues by Paruchuri brothers worked well in this flick. The subtle humor and their trade mark of coining full forms for various words are observed. “The word PE KA (playing card) is named so because it loots both ‘PEdavadu’ and ‘KAlavadu’ equally”, is one of the dialogues written by Paruchuri brothers in this film. There are a few more dialogues those stand subtle sometimes.
Kodanda Rami Reddy’s screenplay proved to be obsolete. Especially the scene of Vaibhav beating the S.I and the constables encouraging him appeared absurd. The scene was wrongly composed to establish a love track between hero and heroine. The Tamil-Telugu comedy between Chalapathi Rao and Delhi Rajeshwari sounded good for sometime.
Music is up to the mark for this film. The song ‘Kayapanda..’ sounded like ‘Adapilla Aggipulla’ in Sainikudu to some extent.
Analysis:
First half of the film is ok but the second half appears to be dragging. As soon as the interval completes the main theme in the film starts, and within 15 minutes the audiences understand what the climax would be. Excepting a few humorous dialogues, the film has nothing big to attract audience.
The come back of Annapurna appeared something new on screen.
Shradhdha Arya’s exposing and voluptuous postures have received good response in the theatres. Songs are composed in rich way but they are proved to be ‘cigarette songs’. And the action episodes are also within in the limit.
The film lost its score for second half. The tempo that was maintained in first half is not continued in second half. Some bizarre is observed in second half that makes the audiences lose interest. The film is targeted on youth and it has to be seen how far they patronize.
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