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Guys `n gals in love
Preminchukunnam...
Pelliki Randi (Telugu)
Cast: Aditya Om,
Rekha, Vijay Sayi,
Revathi, Brahmanandam, Ali, Jeeva,
Sakuntala
Music: Koti
Director: Relangi Narasimha Rao
Producer: V. Venkat Reddy
IT HAS been quite some time since Relangi Narasimha Rao made a comedy. Writer Sankaramanchi Parthasarathi's films are generally inspired by Wodehousean works.
This film too is no different. This is more a situational drama. But Parthasarathi should have spent more time on making his dialogue punchy. That lapse is visible.
The film has Kanthamma (Sakuntala), as central figure. She has two granddaughters, Swapna (Rekha) and Sundari (Revathi). The love story of these two girls is launched in a college campus between Aditya (Aditya Om) and Swapna (Rekha) as one pair of lovers and another young man (Vijay Sayi) and Sundari (Revathi) as another. For sometime the screenplay concentrates more on the methods, the disciplinarian grandmother applies on her granddaughters, to keep them under check. But the story line is very thin.
Therefore, a separate comedy track alternates the main theme, featuring Brahmanandam, Ali and Jeeva. The track has separate existence, till Jeeva, playing the role of Seenu, reveals that he is the father of these two girls. A flashback narrates how the mother of these girls died long back and how Kanthamma played fowl game in separating the two girls from their father.
She also sends Seenu to jail framing him in a false case. Meanwhile, Kanthamma shifts her grand-daughters to Amalapuram. On knowing this Aditya too shifts to that place.
He rents Kanthamma's house vouching he is a married man. And his wife will soon join him. He then makes his lover Swapna play double, as Swapna's look alike sister. Once Kanthamma discovers the truth, climax is set with all characters including Seenu and Brahmananda landing up in a den, built as memorial to a former don.
We can guess its end. The two girls look stony, blank or passive, unable to understand how to react to a particular situation. Aditya Om lacks the needed vigour to fit in a vigorous role. The other boy, Vijay, suitor of Sundari, is better.
Sakuntala, even in this comedy behaves like she is playing a female don, shouting at the top of her voice.
Raghubababu playing `doubting Thomas' proved a better comedian. Koti's music score is palatable.
GUDIPOODI SRIHARI
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