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'Aadhi Lakshmi' Review: Novel idea but lacks treatment

Film   
: Aadhi Lakshmi
Rating
: 2.5/5
Director
: RV Suresh
Producer
: Y Suresh
Camera
: Bhupathi
Editing
: Gautham Raju
Art
: Srinivasa Raju
Music
: Chakri
Cast
: Srikanth, Vadde Navin, Sridevi, etc

Take a leaf from Hollywood films, one from the Bollywood and add local flavor you have Telugu film ready on your platter! Aadhi Lakshmi, released on December 8, is just suits the above description. The film with a novel idea doesn’t keep the momentum just because the director didn’t show the same novelty in presenting the film.

At the most film presents the lovable family hero – Srikanth – in a different shade that of a villain, and this might help Srikanth to prove himself that he too can act. Otherwise the film draws flak from all sides. Sheer bad direction made this otherwise interesting film slip out of the hands. The way the character of Srikanth has been developed in the first half and let loose in the second half is example of the director’s inability to sustain the story telling in a pattern.

The Story

Lakshmi Vara Prasad (Navin) is famous criminal lawyer and is known from fighting against injustice. He falls in love with a film heroine Surekha (Sridevi), as usual love at first sight. Surekha’s film producer is murdered and Aadhi (Srikanth) is arrested for the murder. Surekha approached Lakshmi for bailing out Aadhi from this case. While investigating the Lakshmi, with the help of psychiatrist (Poornima, the erstwhile Jhandyala’s heroine), discovers that Aadhi is suffering from split personality and it was one such occasion that the producer was killed.

Lakshmi fights the case and gets Aadhi acquittal. At this point the story takes an interesting turn, Aadhi tells to Lakshmi he had fooled him and everybody that he is suffering from split personality, but there was nothing of that sort. Aadhi also vouches to kill anybody and everybody who would love Surekha or come in between his love for the heroine.

This leads to a battle between the good versus the bad. The battle could have been shot well and the film would be have definitely become very interesting. But the director let loose the film and this leads to one hour of continuous boredom, moreover you know the ending the good will ultimately win!

Apart from Srikanth’s performance there is nothing worth mentioning in the film Srikanth surprises everyone with his acting ability and look definitely better than all his previous films. This could be a land-mark film for Srikanth, unfortunately the director never lets this happen. Vadde Navin look good as a lawyer, but is still not at ease with his body language, he has lots of difficulty in enacting the emotional scenes. Sridevi adds the glamour to the film.

The comedy of Ali, Abhinayasri and Uttej is vulgar and fails to impress the front-benchers also. The comedy doesn’t gel with the film story and is a separate track by itself.

Other departments like camera of Bhupathi is at times eye-straining with lots of zoom-outs and unnecessary panning during the crucial dialogue in court room is quiet irritating. Editing is apt according to the script and no extra dimension is added to fillip the film. Though this is Chakri’s 50th film has the music director, he has never put his heart into any song. The background music is too loud and most of the time doesn’t match the scene. Indeed a very mediocre effort by Chakri!

The director once again proves to be an amateur. Though RV Suresh, under various other names has directed few films earlier (remember Subbu of NTR Jr.), looks like a debutant and could carry this novel idea forward. Though the film takes off on the right note, it slips off and all this is due lack of proper treatment. If the director had put some more effort, this would have been the surprise hit of the year.

-Reviewed By Sree



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