his First LOVE called him.... Oy...

Oye is a Telugu film written and directed by newcomer Anand Ranga, who assisted Bhaskar in the Telugu blockbuster Bommarillu. The film stars Siddharth and child artiste-turned-heroine Baby Shamili of Mani Ratnam's Anjali fame. The film, which has music composed by music director Yuvan Shankar Raja.


In this movie Siddhartha is a college boy who falls in love with Shamili. The story moves around how both reunite by fighting with the old traditions of the world.

Uday, a young rich kid, who believes in the adage of life is short and live it to the fullest. He falls in love with a docile girl Sandhya (Shamili) at a first sight when he catches her in writing dairy at a pub wearing chudidar. She lives alone at a beachside house, running a nursery. She is very traditional girl with her own ideals. He enters in her house as P.G to make her fall in love. On her birthday, he expresses his love and presents 12 beautiful birthday gifts. On the same day it is revealed that she is suffering from a terminal disease. The rest of the movie is how he makes her life beautiful before she dies.



Although the film is copied from Korean film, A Millionaire's First Love (2006), it is well structured in the first half. Only in the later part of the movie it drags on.

Performance of Siddharth and Samili is good, but the strength of the movie lies in technical aspects. Vijay Chakravarthy did a commendable job as Cinematography.

Basic plot is taken from A Millionaire's First Love (2006) but has influences of Hollywood film Love Story (1971) and Geetanjali (1989) of Telugu.

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Boni Movie Review

Story

DD (Sumanth) and Chinna are orphans and childhood friends. Their aim in life is to set up a ‘Pulihora centre’. DD joins a local goon’s (Jayaprakash Reddy) gang so that he could easily get money for the pulihora center. On his first job, he is assigned to kidnap a girl Pragathi, a minister’s daughter with noble intentions. In fact, Pragathi herself hatches a kidnap plan with her friend to demand 4 Crores from her father to rescue farmer who are losing their land. She thinks that DD has kidnapped her on her friend’s advice. Later she knows the truth but by that time she starts liking him. Then DD’s boss comes to him and orders him to kill her. But he flees with her. The rest of the story is finding the person who hatched the plan to murder Pragathi.

Artists Performance:

Sumanth has done such orphan-rowdy characters in the past and he does role effortlessly. His sidekick is irritating to the most, it is very purely etched role. Newcomer Kriti is okay. Jayaprakash Reddy’s role is in the lines of Paresh Rawal’s in Kshana Kshanam. Comedy track by Satyam Rajesh and Naresh, Bablu and others is mediocre. Chandramohan portrays the ‘surprising role’ with ease.

Technically, it is cinematographer Andrew’s camera and music director Ramana Gogula’s work is appreciable. New director Raj Pippala has tried to present the movie in novel way but he is letdown by his own team of writers. Writing is bad, to say the least.

Boni tries to tread path with action-love backdrop but fails miserably. Boni is not a right debut for the producer and director. The movie is laced with hotchpotch of screenplay, lengthy and unnecessary scenes and predictable humor.

Analysis:

Music director Ramana Gogula has turned producer with Boni and apart from producing it, he also handles the departments of music, picturisation of songs and creative design (whatever that means!). NRI director Raj Pippala has made debut with this film. The director’s basic premise - a guy kidnapping a girl who herself wants to be kidnapped for noble reasons and during the episode, they start falling in love with each other - sounds good on paper. Sadly, the execution, especially the screenplay, is too hotchpotch that the movie finally ends up a cockeyed one. Writing is too bad (both the screenplay and dialogs). Till interval, hardly anything happens. Except cinematography and couple of good songs, this badly executed, badly written movie leaves the audiences in boredom. And it is too lengthy for this sort of a kidnap drama.

Is there any Pulihora center (exclusively Pulihora selling hotel) exists in Andhra Pradesh? Even if it does, how much it costs to set it up? Rs 7Lakhs? Hero joining a mafia leader to get Rs 7 Lakhs to set up a pulihora center is hard to believe.

Final Analysis:

Boni tries to tread path with action-love backdrop but fails miserably. Boni is not a right debut for the producer and director. The movie is laced with hotchpotch of screenplay, lengthy and unnecessary scenes and predictable humor.

Evarina Epudina Movie Review

Love can happen at anytime and any place. How convincingly was this told in this movie, let us see.

Story
Venkat (Varun) is a happy go lucky guy who is not responsible about anything but then his life takes a turn when he sees Madhumita (Vimala) and falls in love with her at first sight. From then on, he starts hatching plans to win her heart and finally he does.

However, in this process, he does a small mistake which leads to a great confusion and problem and Madhu leaves him without giving any chance to explain.

Whether he manages to win her heart and what changes he undergoes in this process forms the rest of the story.

Performances
Hero: Varun Sandesh:
The confidence of bagging two hits with the starting of career is seen in him. He carried the entire movie on his shoulders and shown enough of energy levels. He needs to work on his body quotient. He may look better with some grooming and adding on some muscle. He has improved his dialogue delivery which was thick in his earlier movies.

Heroine: Vimala Raman:
She is like a sheer poetry. Her beauty is marvelous and enthralling. She looked seductive and sensuous and she has performed to her role. She suits best beside big heroes than lean guys like Varun Sandesh. An inch loss in her body would certainly pinch the hearts of youngsters and teenagers as well. Her smile is also captivating and personality is enchanting.

Others:
Giri Babu was regular, Rama Prabha and Sakuntala were okay, Reshmi looked good, Rahul was alright, Ali was normal, Venu managed few light moments, Anu Haasan did her bit with standard, the others like Surekha Vani, Rahul were brief.

Technical Crew:
The dialogues were okay, the script was a bit random but the screenplay was suitable to it. Music was a let down and barring one or two songs, nothing much can be said. Cinematography was average, editing was neat, costumes and art department did their bit to prove their presence.

Highlight Scenes:
The scene at the TV showroom where Varun’s brother gives him money
Varun’s bold approach to shoulder the entire film
Varun’s way of making children sleep
Disappointment
The rain song was cut down which proved to be a disappointment for many young audiences

Analysis
The film tried to attempt to be a light hearted romantic entertainer but then the comedy track has been quite weak. Even the plot as such is outdated and it was not long before the viewers could predict what was coming next. The entire first half has been devoted to a stale comedy of the grannies at the hospital and it must be said that the flavor was lost due to it. This is a romantic treat but the touch of romance and its feel was not in sufficient doses.

The second half also was a bit mixed with up with inconsequent scenes and forced songs. However, the technical values and the production values of the film are good and this has elevated the film a bit. Due credit goes to the makers for entrusting the hero with the large responsibility of going through the entire movie. There is no special part for the mass audience and the family audience might like it in parts. The pace of the film has been consistent but unwanted songs during the second half hampered the momentum.

Overall, this is a film that is technically neat and good in few points but the agility in keeping the audiences attached to screen is missing especially in second half that marred the final result.