Film: Rainbow
Rating: 2/5
Cast: Rahul, Sonali Chouhan, Dharmavarapu, Prakash Raj, Paruchuri Venkateshwara Rao, SS Rajamouli, Sindhu Menon, Samudra, Kodi Rama Krishna, Deekshit etc
Editing: MR Varma
Camera: Santhosh Srinivas
Music: Nihal
Screenplay, Direction: VN Aditya
Released On: 2nd October 2008
Story:
Shyam aka Shyamala Rao (Rahul) is a professional hoarding painter of a painting company. Swapna (Sonali Chouhan) is an aspiring actress. Shyam likes Swapna and he helps her lot to achieve her dream. When a producer attempts to molest Swapna, Shyam fights with him and gets injured. In later diagnosis it will be known that Shyam got affected by color blindness due to that injury. Hence he becomes unable to see any color except white and black. And Shyam, being an orphan, lives in the house of Kamala (Sindhu Menon), who is dumb by birth. She loves Shyam. Finally how this triangle love story ends? Who marries whom? That forms the rest of the story.
Performances:
Rahul did a completely different role from that of 'Happy Days'. He needs to work hard on expressions and body language.
Sonali Chouhan is ok with respect to face value but as per physique she is looking like a patient with zero-voluptuousness.
Sindhu Menon looked well on screen.
Prakash Raj's presence didn't elevate the range of the movie due to poor background score and energy-less character. Theatre Deekshit appeared with real life name. Same is the case with SS Rajamouli who acted as a professional actor in real life role for quite long time.
Coming to technical departments the only saving grace in the film is cinematography, music and lyrics. Editing is average and direction is poor. Direction also suffered some ups and downs.
Direction Mistake:
The first producer who gives an opportunity to the heroine asks her to come to 'Touch' Pub. But she comes to 'Bottles and Chimneys' and the entire scene was shot there. VN Aditya didn't bother about the B & C that appeared prominently on the door heroine opens to come in.
Analysis:
There is no gripping narration in this film. And there is nothing new in this story line. Already we have watched the major part of this film in Rangeela, some part in Swarna Kamalam and some bits and pieces in other films. The only best part of the movie is music and lyrics. This film has given out the best music in recent times.
First half of the movie goes very boring and the back ground score kills the interest levels of audiences completely. The first few minutes go like a B-Grade film and some part of the second half goes like an award nominee film. There is no direct relation between the much publicized hero's color blindness and the story part.
The only relief here is to watch the comedy generated by Siva Reddy for some time and the lengthy role of SS Rajamouli. Samudra, Kodi Rama Krishna and Srinu Vaitla appeared in guest roles in real life roles. Late Mallikarjuna Rao also appeared in guest appearance for a couple of minutes.
The film has very less scope to stand successful at the box office. The budget incurred on the film also is also big. On a whole, the plight of this film, as the result can be expected, can be attributed in big way to director and the back ground scorer.
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