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When normal is not boring
M. L. NARASIMHAM
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Man, woman, baby and another man and the complications are endless.
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ALL FOR THE BABY: Allari Naresh, Kamalini Mukherjee and Harish in the film.
It is night in a middle-class neighbourhood in Rajahmundry when a baby’s cry is heard from a house. A young man in the adjacent room wakes up and tries to comfort the child only to realise that it must be hungry. He tries to wake up the baby’s mother who gets up with a start and starts hollering doubting the intentions of the man. Hearing her shouts, the husband rushes to the room and thrashes the young man. Enter his buddy who clears the confusion by saying that if at all his friend had other intentions he wouldn’t have allowed the woman, his wife, to marry someone else.
And that someone else is none but the man who beat him up now. This scene from Pellaindhi Kaani… is being pasteurised by director E.V.V. Sathyanarayana. The ‘night scene’ is in fact filmed during the day by cinematographer D. Prasad Babu making one wonder whether these are the reasons for which the film industry is called the ‘make-believe-world.’ ‘Allari’ Naresh playsthe young man, Kamalini Mukherjee, the housewife, Harish her husband and Sunil as the friend in the scene that is shot at Rajahmundry before the unit moved to Kashmir for a twelve day schedule to shoot the songs.
The film is based on a story written by Tamil writer-director-actor K. Bhagyaraj. E.V.V. opines that Pellaindhi Kaani… betters his own previous best, Aame. He agrees that there was so much of melodrama during the end portions in Aame whereas one can find realistic portrayals, situations and narrative in his current venture. It caters to the tastes of today’s young audiences as well as to the older generation.
“A serious issue has been told in a light-hearted way throughout except towards the climax portions that touches one’s heart chords. No comparisons, but Naresh’s role is akin to the ones played by Kamal Haasan in Swatimuthyam, and Venkatesh in Chanti. A mama’s boy, a head injury sustained when he was hardly five leaves him with a stunted mental growth. His mother (Bhanupriya) is worried about his future. She hopes marriage may bring in a change in him. But when that doesn’t happen, with a guilt feeling she ponders over getting the girl married to another young man. The scene we shot now reveals why the young man is staying in his ex-wife’s house,” says the director during the break.
The unit had shot extensively in and around Rajahmundry, Mandapeta, Samarlakota, Vizag and Araku valley besides at RFC. “We preferred Kashmir to foreign locations. A twelve-day schedule took us to Sone Marg at the Kargil border and to Baramullah besides the scenic Gulmarg, Dal Lake in Srinagar, Chandan Vari, Pehalgam and other places,” says the producer M. Narasimha Rao.
“Of the six songs set to tune by Kamalakar, and Jayashree, four are situational that merge with the theme and two are duets. No group dancers and no artificiality in the song sequences.,” EVV observes. Harshavardhan who anchors a crime programme in a Telugu news channel debuts in a similar role but with loads of comic touches . The film is expected to hit the marquee on October 12.
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