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Movie Review : Laila Manju

Producer: Suresh Naidu
Director: Anji Sreenu
Cast: Hari Varun, Jyothi Krishna
Music: Srilekha MM
 
Every year many love stories knock the box-office door. While some stories culminate to a happy ending, there are many others that simply narrate the unsuccessful tales of unfulfilled love. Anji Sreenu’s next treads on the similar line of clichéd love tale but boasts of some novelty at least.

To begin with, this is the story of Siddhartha a.k.a. Siddhu (Harivarun) an U.S based student who comes to India on a vacation. Siddhu is enchanted by Indian culture and tradition and eventually loses his heart to a supposedly traditional belle, Maheswari a.k.a. Mahi (Jyothikrishna). Conversely Siddhu’s brother Vicky (Raghu) and Mahi's brother Naidu (Brahmaji) are tough adversaries who always seek for a chance to fight.

Siddhu confides his feelings to Mahi who is apprehensive of Naidu’s take on the entire affair. True to her fears, when Naidu learns about their budding romance, he flogs Siddhu. Infuriated with the occurrence, Vicky makes a fatal attack on Naidu but Siddhu saves him by taking the injury on himself. After this Naidu and Vicky realize their error and give consent to their relationship. But another hurdle comes up in the form of parental opposition. Siddhu hits on a plan to convince them of the match.

According to the plan, Siddhu would reside with Mahi's parents and Mahi with Siddhu's parents. After being fully convinced of their choices, the elders could give out their final verdict, which the young ones will welcome with open hearts. The elders agree to this but they put forward certain conditions. As per the treaty, during this period both of them should not talk to each other and their brothers should also not fight with one another. Fortunately, they mange to impress the elders who agree for the marriage. But just before the nuptial ties, Vicky and Naidu clash once again that parts the lovers once more.

As the treaty is contravened, the lovers are forced to separate. Seeing the plight of them, Naidu and Vicky question their parents as what made them take such a stern action. After realizing that they were responsible for the separation, both of them attempt suicide and unite the lovers. By now even the elders has come to accept their mistakes and the film ends on a happy note with the two finally coming together in the end.

Talking about the performances, novice actor Harivarun is good in the dance sequences. Acting wise he could have done better had he put in some extra efforts and worked on getting his timings right. The actress serves as a mere accessory in the film and looks good in traditional attires.

Moving to direction, the director scuffles with certain episodes and even the narration is quite sluggish. The songs pictured in Switzerland are spectacular and all credits should go to the cinematographer for treating the songs so well. But the editing could have been better.

Music by MM Srilekha is good and even the songs have been well choreographed.

The film is expected to click with the audience since it is a love story. But the absence of any big names puts the commercial success of the film in indeterminate state.


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