Producer: Bekkam Venugopal
Director: Raja Vannem Reddy
Cast: Meera Jasmine, Sangeetha, Shivaji
Music: Srilekha MM

Some directors and producers in Telugu film industry have a strange sense of belief that remaking successful films of other languages would be the safest bet, as they would attract the audiences for sure. Searching a story, perfect script, good dialogues, and selecting suitable artistes are the last criteria. These producers and directors feel that they could easily make a straight lift of the original. Screenplay and story scripting would be very easy as they could be done in the form of translation. 'Maa Aayana Chanti Pilladu' replicates one such offering, which is the remake of the successful Tamil flick 'En Purushan Kuzhanthai Madiri'. The story revolves around the relationship of husband and wife and the intricacies around it.

Bullabbayi (Sivaji) is madly in love with his sister-in-law Rajeswari (Meera Jasmine). Rajeswari on the other hand behaves that she is not interested in him, but really loves him. Bullabbayi is on the row of a dispute with his stepbrother Veerababu (Subbaraju). To save Chintamani (Sangeeta) from being sold by a brothel owner (Anuradha) to Veerababu, Bullabbayi pays her money and takes Chintamani with him and keeps her in his outhouse. Bullabbayi incidentally tells her to leave the place the very next day, but accidentally fall prey to carnal desires after an attack by Veerababu's men against him. As an honest being, Bullabbayi reveals this to his father-in-law and urges him to stop the marriage, but the latter refuses to do so. Bullabbayi portrays his innocence and reveals the incident to Rajeswari, as he doesn't want to cheat on her. Rajeswari gets dismayed and attempts suicide as a result and gets saved by Bullabbayi. Rajeswari refuses to share the marital life with Bullabbayi. A few days later, her father convinces her and orders her to honour his honesty. Impressed with his innocence, Rajeswari allows him into the bedroom and soon thereafter Rajeswari turns pregnant, so does Chintamani. The strange string of events culminates to the climax.

PERFORMANCE:

Sivaji is flawless in this kind of roles and yet again deliver the goods. The character is entertaining with qualities of innocence and honesty. His comedy timing is perfect and his body language is perfectly suited to the character. Meera Jasmine does well as a housewife and charms the audience with her simplicity. Sangeeta, who was off screen for quite some time got a great opportunity in this role with lots of scope for performance. Subbaraju too did justice as the negative lead in the entire film and as a reformed man in the climax. Chandramohan, Annapurna and others fit and play well their respective roles. Venumadhav gets opportunity to play a full-length comedy character and he does not disappoint at all. He performance provides great entertainment.

TECHNICAL:

Dialogues are good by Rajendrakumar. Music by MM Srilekha has not come up well and is a let down. Most of the tunes are straight picks. The screenplay is poor and this makes the film suffer quite a bit.

REMARKS:

This one is between a family entertainer and a crowd puller and unless wide publicity is done the flick may soon prove to fade out..

CAST: Sivaji, Meera Jasmine, Sangeeta, Subbaraju, Venumadhav, Chandramohan, Soma Vijayaprakash, Annapurna, Anuradha, and others.

CREDITS: Music – Srilekha, Lyrics – Bhaskarabhatla, Dialogues – Rajendrakumar, Editing – Nagireddy, Presenter – Mamidisetti Srinivas, Co-Producer – Prashant, Executive producer – Soma Vijaya Prakash, Producer – Bekkem Venugopal, Screenplay and direction  – Raja Vannemreddy