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A theme much repeated

Film: Sashirekha Parinyaam

Cast: Tarun, Genelia

Direction: Krishna Vamsi

This is the fourth film in a row that Genelia acted as the sweet, chirpy, plain-hearted girl running away from home and revelling in her freedom. The story is not path-breaking, we have seen it before -- a girl refusing to marry a boy she hasn’t seen earlier, escaping from home and bumping into the hero only to realise later that he was the one she was actually supposed to wed.

However, the reason for running from home is very credible.

The boy’s (Tarun) father (Paruchuri Gopalakrishna) demands dowry and Genelia learns about it and on the day of the wedding and flees. Since we know what happens towards the end, the director should have at least made the narration of the duo’s journey interesting. He takes the entire post interval time just to make Genelia understand that she is in love. Even if the film is not a remake of ‘Jab We Met’, the scenes and dialogues give you a déjÀ vu feeling and one expected more innovative work from Krishna Vamsi.

Storyline

Genelia and Tarun are stranded on the road and the former challenges that she will get a lift from a traveller. The way she stands on the highway, stops a lorry and how the driver prowls on her while Tarun is pushed off from the vehicle is tiring.

Like in many of his movies, the heroine is shown as being loud. Genelia screams, shouts, sometimes weeps silently and suddenly there is an outburst of emotion and we see Tarun fussing upon her like a mother hen.

Ahuti Prasad, who wooed the audience in ‘Chandamama’, is given again the same role of an agitated father who mouths expletives, again in East Ggodavari dialect, at the drop of a hat.

Gopalakrishna excels as a money-minded lawyer from Krishna district. Tarun breathes life into his role.

There is a scene in which Genelia voices her apprehension about boys from Vijayawada and gives references of victims like Srilakshmi, Ayesha, etc. and Tarun gives her an interesting reply.

The first half of the film is charming indeed. It smoothly makes way into the heart. Genelia may not be tired of her cute and chirpy role, but the audience clearly is. Music is a minus and cinematography does justice to Krishna Vamsi’s vision. The love story takes its own sweet time to reach the destination, watch it if you have no qualms.

Y. SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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