Film: Tulasi
Rating: 3.25/5
Cast: Venkatesh, Nayantara, Sivaji, Jayaprakash Reddy, Ravi Babu, Raghubabu, Tanikella Bharani, Vijay Kumar, Ashish Vidyarthi, Master Athulith etc
Story: Akula Shiva, Boyapati Sreenu
Dialogues: Paruchuri Brothers
Choreography: Raju Sundaram, Brunda
Art: Ashok, Narayana Reddy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Camera: Bala Murugan
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Producer: Daggubati Suresh Babu
Screenplay-Direction: Boyapati Sreenivas
Released On: 12th Oct 2007
Story:
Vasundhara (Nayantara) is the fashion designer who lives along with her brother Harish (Sivaji) and hostel warden (Tanikella Bharani). Parvathaneni Tulasi (Venkatesh) is an engineer who happens to meet Vasundhara in a foreign country. They fall in love and get married. They are blessed with a kid. But they get separated due to some circumstances. Why? What are those circumstances? The film unfolds the flash back.
Tulasi is the son of Dasaratha Ramayya (Vijay Kumar), ZP Chairman in a village. His rival is a factionist (Jayaprakasha Reddy). In a big tumult between Tulasi and the factionists, Tulasi shows his cruelty on them. Vasundhara hates that violent behavior in Tulasi. Hence she leaves him with an idea to safeguard her kid at least.
But Tulasi keeps on trying to see his son (Master Athulith). Why he does that? The unfolding of the reason behind that culminates at the climax.
Performances:
Venkatesh's performance is really marvelous in the film. His dialogue delivery and ability to depict all expressions needs no explanation.
Nayantara is sufficient in her role. Ramya Krishna appears as Doctor in guest role. Master Athulith's performance deserves great mention. He really did well in all the frames.
Comedy by Ali, Raghu Babu and Narsing Yadav is just ok. Villainy by Subba Raju, Ravi Babu, Jaya Prakasha Reddy and Ashish Vidyrathi is routine.
Action sequences are really hair rising. Dances are average. Music by Devi Sri is catchy at times. Especially the song 'Nenu Chuk Chuk Bandini ro..' for which Shriya acted as item girl got big response in theaters.
Dialogues by Paruchuri brothers make good sense.
The dialogue of Venkatesh on the meaning of marriage is really impressive. Hats off to Paruchuri brothers, for their ability in bringing out such sensible dialogue. The dialogue stands out to be highlight in entire film.
Story part is assumed to be made with novelty but when it came to execution part, it became like any other action flick.
Boyapati Sreenivas made the film as a minimum guarantee flick.
Analysis:
It's an attempt to target youth, families, masses and ladies at a time. But the blends cannot prove to be a right mix. If ladies like sentiment, they can't accept violence. If masses like violence they can't swallow sentiment. But on a whole the film proves to be a right commercial masala flick. It has got the ability to sustain audience in theatres except a few cigarette songs.
First half of the film is made with humor and love track. Venkatesh's pranks with Nayantara sound interesting. Second half is filled with action episodes. Sentiment follows under current in the film. Mass audiences cracked jokes among themselves when sentiment on Venkatesh is rolling on screen. So, the dosage would have crossed the expectation to some extent.
On a whole, the film proves to be a flick that can be watched once without expecting something unpredictable and novelty.
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