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Defining love
Sunday (Telugu)
Cast: Sanjay Mamata, Lakshmana Rao, Rajitha, Suhasini
Dir: Manepalli Srinivas
Music: Sri Sunil Dharna
HOW MUCH time does it take for two people to fall in love? This is the question, which is debated in the film. The hero Sriram (Sanjay) argues that a minute is enough to bring two souls together. Or a day, at the most. The girl he loves at first sight - Divya (Mamata) - feels it takes ages to understand each other and settle down as true lovers. So the director and story-writer Srinivas sets a dead line - a `Sunday' to study its outcome. The rest are snail-paced events, mostly set in the Zoo.
Sriram is introduced as a child prodigy, an expert in sketching portraits His mother's (Suhasini) portrait is one such work. We come to know that she died when he was young. Now it is Divya, he looks at with hope of sharing his life, whose picture he too he draws at one stage.
Therefore the title of the film `Sunday' also carries a suffix - `Love in One day'. Though the idea is good, its narration turns out to be awfully poor. All that Sanjay does in the film is sport a blank expression and stare at the heroine.
Sriram, a penniless young man, playing hide and seek with the owner of the house he rented out, starts craving for this girl Divya, after he notices her in a temple. He says he is not only impressed by her beauty, but also by her benevolence towards poor, exemplified in her giving money to the beggars instead of offering it to god. He chases her declares his love, to which she replies `love cannot happen in one day'. Rest of the film shows how the issue is resolved. Almost the entire film is shot in the zoo where other characters are also brought in.
Episodes involving Lakshmana Rao, L.B.Sriram, Kallu Chidambaram, Mallikarjuna Rao, Surya, Chittibabu and a few others in different bits of comical drama are all senseless comedy bits.
The friends of the hero also add to this inane drama. None of the scenes make us feel we are watching a sensible film. The comedy is sometimes crude and loud.
The boys who play Sriram's friends, have a simple goal - watching girls and commenting on their `figures' in tasteless dialogue.
G.S.
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