Cast & Crew:
Cast: Nitin, Hanshika, Ali, Brahmanandam, Chandramohan, Kallu Chidambaram, Jeeva, M.S. Narayana, Suman, Venu Madhav, Narsing Yadav, Jayaprakash Reddy and others
Banner: Wellfare Creations
Music: Anoop Rubens
Producer: Dr. Vijayaprasad Malla
Director: Eshwar
Cast: Nitin, Hanshika, Ali, Brahmanandam, Chandramohan, Kallu Chidambaram, Jeeva, M.S. Narayana, Suman, Venu Madhav, Narsing Yadav, Jayaprakash Reddy and others
Banner: Wellfare Creations
Music: Anoop Rubens
Producer: Dr. Vijayaprasad Malla
Director: Eshwar
We’ve seen the same story in various forms and played by different actors. Gudumba Shankar, Aata, even Dhee recently. Seetharamula Kalyanam Lankalo is the same theme, routine narration, mediocre music-acting-direction and inconsistent writing. So what’s new? Nothing. Same invite, names different.
Chandu falls for Nandu, whose father is a Rayalaseema faction bigwig, whose rival’s son Veera Pratap kidnaps her to marry her. She is a prisoner in his home when Chandu pretends to be a lawyer and befriends the villain, aided by a confused Appalaraju (Brahmanandam), the family’s ex-lawyer. With the support of his family and the bride’s father’s army, how he overthrows the villain is the rest of the story.
Chandu, the protagonist of the story, behaves like a jerk and thinks it will impress the girl. Hopefully no one gets inspired by that. It’s the same old brute strength and Dhee-inspired outwitting the villain, who are good old Rayalaseema goons. Its either old city rowdies, Vijayawada goondas or Rayalaseema factionists. The writer gives the producer these three choices, and the latter is at liberty to pick one. So Seema it is. Where people spend their time making bombs and eat lot of Kaaram.
The villain here is Prakashraj from Okkadu inspired ‘I love the heroine, therefore I shall not molest her’ muscle-y brainless long-haired Faction-Son.
It’s not original, that much is clear. But the direction is bad in the first half, and mediocre in the second. The love track has absolutely nothing to offer. Not just anything new, but absolutely nothing to offer. The only big saving grace of the movie are the comic gang-Brahmanandam, Ali, Venumadhav, a couple of other regulars including Jayaprakash Reddy and even Subbaraju in a comic role. Their best use of the given average writing and good editing of the comic scenes exclusively helps the movie from sinking further.
Even that is not new, one gets a sense of déjà-vu in every scene and dialogue but at least it helps in not getting permanent frown lines, as was the danger by the end of the first half.
It’s not a very good-looking movie, but the editing works. The fights are okay. Nitin’s performance needs polishing, and he definitely needs a good director. His dialogue delivery has improved. Hansika looks the part of a damsel in distress. The comic gang have the timing right on. Dialogue for anything other than a few and far between scenes is really bad. Funnily enough, Nitin-Hansika do not have much to do in the second half. Fortunately or otherwise, its only an improvement.
The music is inspired from Black Eyed Peas, a Neeraj Sreedhar song (also used in Ram-Om Namaste) and even the background seems familiar. But overall, it’s not bad. The choreography is regular and the only song that stands out is the last one. Nitin does his pilates moves, but somehow you cannot place him in the same league as Allu Arjun-NTR because they love dance; Nitin’s moves are solely to impress and they serve that purpose. The practice and dedication are evident; also evident the tragedy of the right moves in wrong movies.
After a couple of really drab movies, Nitin stars in a pretty (below) average albeit stale fare. Not a complete torture, but is that enough?