The ultimate entertainer
M.L. NARASIMHAM
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A boy from a satvika family falling in love with a ferocious factionist's daughter is interesting.
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TRADITION BOUND The subject of `Seema Sastry' is close to the director's heart.
Location: Ramanaidu Studios, Nanakramguda; the set: Orthodox middle class manduva house.
A young man and his kin are chased by a few people and they enter a house. The camera follows them and zooms in on two women insidelooking at them with a puzzled expression. The director orders a `cut.' The camera stops rolling. Director G. Nageswara Reddy wants a retake.
He goes to his actors and tells them to run little more swiftly into the house and the women to retain the astonished look. His idea is to show the entire bit on screen at one go without an `editor's cut and paste.' After all, comedy is all about timing. The director had turned full-fledged producer with this under production, Seema Sastry made under Sri Kathyanani Creations banner.
The actors run again. At a close look their identities are revealed. `Allari' Naresh, L.B. Sriram, M. S. Narayana and Ali rush into the house as people chase them, while a stunned Kovai Sarala and Rajitha look at them. All of them are in typical traditional Brahminical attires. The shot is okayed.
"The story is set in a town in Rayalaseema. In the film it is shown as the hero Subrahmanya Sastry's (Naresh) house. L.B. Sriram and Kovai Sarala are his parents. M.S. Narayana and Rajitha act as his maternal uncle and aunt while Ali is his brother-in-law. Born in a family that is against love marriages, Naresh falls in love with Surekha Reddy (Farzana), daughter of a factionist (played by Jayaprakash Reddy). In this scene Naresh does some mischief and the affected people chase him and his family members," explains Nageswara Reddy about the scene he had just then shot.
It is the seventh directorial venture for Reddy and he says the subject is close to his heart and he wants no compromise. "This is my first independent production. Naresh had played a student, an employee and other characters. I wanted to present him in a different role. So I wrote this tradition bound character for him. It will be a beaten track if I show him falling in love with a girl from another community and end the film with a message on casteless society. We have seen such screen love stories innumerable times. So I made the girl hail from a factionist backdrop. A boy from a satvika family falling in love with a ferocious factionist's daughter is interesting.
"The fights composed by Vijay are shot like in any other film with a factionist theme made on a huge canvas. The only difference is that while the actors perform (in our film) in all seriousness, it will leave the audience with peels of laughter. It is a wholesome comedy fare with a battery of comedians apart from the above mentioned — Venumadhav, A.V.S., Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam, Krishna Bhagwan, Raghubabu, Kondavalasa, Geetha Singh and Sobharani provide the laughter. He said a portion of the film would be shot in Kurnool.
"Five songs tuned by `Vandemataram' Srinivas have come out well. We intend to shoot two of them at a foreign locale."
After the successful Kitha Kithalu Naresh is on a signing spree. "The title has generated so much
interest that wherever I go people ask me about Seema Sastry" he says. And his role seems to be not as timid as said. The tag line reads — Bheebhatsamaina factionist! "The ultimate entertainer," smiles the director.
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