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Talent goes waste

Lead pair: Uday Kiran and Neha Jhulka in the film ‘Viyyalavari Kayyalu’.

Film: Viyyalavari Kayyalu

Cast: Uday Kiran, Neha, Srihari

Director: E. Sattibabu

This film is an undisguised attempt to draw crowds by using populist dialogues and also a misleading title makes ‘Viyyalavari Kayyalu’ a mediocre fare.

The title gives an impression that the film is a thorough entertainer about the groom’s family throwing tantrums at the wedding but here it’s all about how the hero’s father, as usual the comical Sayaji Shinde, rejects the alliance a s the girl is a daughter of a factionist.

To keep the film going, there is a rival for Srihari in the village too.

While Uday Kiran and Neha Jhulka are besotted with each other, the post-interval drama centres around Srihari and Shinde alone as if it’s none of the couple’s business to interfere this time round. Uday is sadly left out.

Uday is a good looking, talented actor with his own following, all he needs is a right role to get back to form.

The director could have avoided giving him dialogues of popular heroes, pushing him down to the league of struggling and desperate actors.

The film is not bereft of violence and it has it’s own share of chopping of arms and blowing of Sumos. Neha Jhulka is charming, reminds you of Amala in some scenes and one wishes directors these days could tap their talent instead of focusing on plunging necklines.

Srihari looks very handsome and this is another role tailor made for him. Venu’s humour elicits no laughs and music is passable, no novelty in Gogula’s work.

There is a very impressive prelude by Krishna and some sane conversation between Uday and Neha on the concept of love. Ditto between Sayaji and Srihari.

The pace slackens towards the end. Lack of chemistry between lead pair and a weak screenplay lets the audience down. However, those who’ve been vexed with the recent violent stories might lap it.

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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