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A different love story

IT'S RAINING LOVE: Sameer and Ramya in `Amritha Varsham.'

Amritha Varsham (Telugu)

Cast: Sameer, Ramya, Jayasudha, Amitabh Bacchan (special appearance)

Director: N Chandrasekhar

Though not an off-beat story, director N Chandrasekhar was able to mould a routine love subject into an interesting piece on the celluloid. The film's bottomline- `three days of meaningful existence is far greater to 100 days of insignificant life'.

For the first time, a great artiste like Amitabh Bachchan appeared on the Telugu screen, just in a single shot, for a few minutes in his real life role. Excellent screenplay is the forte of this film. Manohar (Samir) a millionaire's (Nizhalgal Ravi) son loves Amritha (Ramya), daughter of school-teacher, Rajeswari (Jayasudha). Amritha is a sprightly girl. Mano marries Amritha against his father's will. At the time of marriage, Mano challenges his father that he could live without him and the riches and also vows to construct his own house within a year of his marriage.

In order to fulfil his challenge, Mano saves money and purchases land. However, Ramya has lots of dreams of touring entire India and enjoying scenic beauties of the country. She also had a long standing wish to meet Amitabh Bachchan and hug him just once. But Mano is dedicated to building a house. He convinces his wife Ramya with the help of her mother.

After the dream house is built, Mano and Ramya plan a house-warming. During the function, Ramya falls unconscious and Mano takes her to a doctor, only to find that Ramya is suffering from brain tumour and will not live long. How Mano fulfilled Ramya's ambitions? Will Ramya come to know about her disease? How Mano kept her in good humour and all such questions form part of the remaining film.

Though a novice, Samir did justice to his role. Ramya also played well as the girl-next-door. After a long time, Telugu audience got a chance to watch a neat film sans exposing scenes. Comedy by Sunil and Dharmavarapu is fine. Cinematography is quite good However, the film has its drawbacks too. The duets in the film failed to match the Telugu lip movement But the film is worth watching.

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