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Neat performances by newcomers

Film: Nacchavule

Cast: Tanish, Madhavilata

Direction: Ravi Babu

The posters of squirrels, monkeys, dogs and promotion surrounding Nacchavule has ended with it’s release.

Lav Kumar’s (Tanish) only ambition is to have a girl friend. With no other focus in life, all he does is racing on the bike with his best pal Narasimha and wooing as many girls as possible.

But when none fall for him he decides to concentrate on one girl and she is Madhavilata who works at a coffee shop.

While Madhavilata is serious about him, Tanish moves over to other girls as his fascination for the former fades.

The film is just not a sweet love story of holding of hands, exchanging gifts, rides on the bike or sweet nothings on the cell phone, showing off partners or all the things that any pack of teens would do.

It focuses on the relationship between husband and wife and parents and their children.

A major mistake drives Anu (Madhavilata) away from Lav Kumar and the separation and a series of incidents like his mother’s death, father’s retribution and humiliation of Anu by a vagabond Naveen makes him realise how much he loves her and how much the relationship means to him.

While he is on his way to apologise, he is stabbed.

What happens later is predictable. The director has done laudable job by extracting neat performances from newcomers.

The film spills freshness and innocence, the story and screenplay has been well crafted and everyone in this ensemble cast has something significant to do to the narrative. The story comes across as light-hearted yet serious-minded, it drills home a sense of responsibility among youth and element of sensitivity in expression amongst elders. Ravi Babu shows his comfort levels shifting between genres, moods, sensibilities and yet manages to keep its twin narratives cohesive and seamless.

Y.S.C

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