A poetic love story
M. L. NARASIMHAM
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A laugh riot with a twist in love tale.
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Purely entertaining ‘Paata’ is due for release soon.
Paata directed by debutant Siva Ganapathy had a ten-day shooting stint in and around Vizag. The location was Senora Resorts near the seashore. Siva Ganapathy was filming a comic scene on Sunil who is caught by the film’s hero (deb
utant Madhusudan). By the conversation one gathers that Sunil bluffed the hero and others in his village that he is working in the US. But the hero finds out that he is working in this hotel! During the recess, the producer joins in for a conversation. “Sunil plays an illiterate villager. But he has ambition to work in the US. He finds an agent and all arrangements for travel are made. Sunil leaves his village carrying with him high hopes and the envy of some of his friends. But the agent cheats him and dumps him in Vizag. Fearful of facing his friends and family back home, Sunil settles as a waiter in a hotel. But he makes the villagers believe that he is working in the US. The hero at one point even asks him to find a job for him there. Sunil tells him then that his qualifications are not sufficient to get a job in the US. In this scene the truth is out. And now it is the hero’s turn to dish out punch dialogue as Sunil pleads with him not to disclose this in the village. “Basically it is a love story. Though the hero and heroine (newcomer Jyothi Krishna) are the conventional bava maradallu the love track has variety and fresh feel. The story is set in a village near Razole. Poonam Singar (another debutante) play
s the second heroine whom the hero meets in Vizag. There is again a conventional villain (played by Ravibabu), the adopted son of Sivaparvathy, who falls in love with Jyothi Krishna. But she shuns his advances. Sunil falls in love with Poonam Singar. And she is in love with the hero. There are many intriguing scenes in this laugh riot. The comedy and the songs are an integral part of the story and do not force their entry,” reveals Srihari Raju. Raju’s dream was to produce a film and his friends came forward to lend a helping hand. He is not one of those new breed of producers who hold only the cash bag. “My involvement is total right from the script stage to the day to day production activities. In fact I worked two hours more per day than the other unit members,” guffaws Raju. Siva Ganapathy was an assistant with Uppalapati Narayana Rao.
“His sincerity and ability to craft new ideas appealed to me. We took the central point from writer Chandra Sekhar Azad’s novel and wrote the screen story. Khuddus, an assistant with music director Koti composed the six songs that gel with the story. The title is justified as the theme travels like a lilting song,” says the producer. The debut director who is in a hurry to complete the scene and the film’s shooting part too puts it in simple words, “Life is a gift, live it to the full is the concept of this story.” For the producer it is almost like half the battle is won, as he is completing the film in the stipulated time and budget. The film is due for release soon.
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