After many years this movie has rated 4.5
Film: Kotha Bangaru Lokam
My Rating: 4.5/5
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Music: Micky J Meyer
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Lyrics: Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Anant Sriram, Srikanth Addala
Producer: Dil Raju
Story - Screenplay - Dialogues - Producer: Srikanth Addala
Release Date: Oct 9th, 2008
Cast: Varun Sandesh, Sweta Basu Prasad, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Ahuti Prasad, Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh etc
My Review:
Story:
Balu (Varun Sandesh) is son of lovable middleclass couple (Prakash Raj & Jayasudha). Swapna (Sweta Basu Prasad) is the daughter of a strict and rich father. Both of them study in a residential college located at a small town of Godavari district. Balu and Swapna fall in love. Swapna is withdrawn from the residential school because her father comes to know about her love. The rest of the story is all about how Balu and Swapna try to get back to each other.
Performances:
Main leads: Varun Sandesh shows improvement in this film compared to his debut in Happy Days. He suited the character of the film very well and he needs to work strongly on getting diction right. His boyish charm wins you over. Sweta Basu Prasad (award winning child actress from Iqbal film) is very good and she perfects her role with her childlike innocent look. However, there is a bit of inconsistency in the dubbing in the initial part of the film.
kotha bangaru lokamOther actors: Jayasudha and Prakash Raj play a perfect couple like they did in Bommarillu film. However, Jayasudha's role is more meaningful and vital in this film. Ahuti Prasad is good as the father of heroine. Rao Ramesh who impressed everybody in his radical portrayal in Gamyam did the key character of a lecturer in the film. He is very good though he appears to have gone little over board in the class room scenes. This film has lots of fresh faces as friends of hero and heroine. And all of them are natural and add some value to the film. Brahmanandam character offers variety.
Technical Side:
Story - Screenplay - Direction: Story of the film is about parenting. This film has got an arresting narration and intelligent screenplay in the second half. The debutant director Srikanth Addala comes up with a script that offers lot of freshness. There are many scenes and situations in the film which would have gone the clichéd way, but the director makes sure that he avoids clichéd and melodramatic scenes. He could able to conceive the emotional scenes in the second half excellently. Dil Raju offers another gem of a director in the form of Srikanth Addala through Kotha Bangaram Lokam after giving us Sukumar (Arya) and Bhaskar (Bommarillu).
Cinematography: I stopped writing separate paragraphs for individual technical departments in my reviews long back. But I think Chota K Naidu's work in this film deserve a separate para. I see Tamil cinematographers ruling the Telugu film industry and wondered why Telugu cinematographers can't come up with such stuff. Today I felt really happy that Chota K Naidu gave a fitting reply to everybody that a Telugu cinematographer can come up with a fabulous stuff. The entire film is like picture postcard photography. You can take any frame in the film and send it as a postcard. The colors and lighting used for the film are highly pleasing to your eyes. The way he has shown the Godavari bridge is entirely different from what we have seen in the earlier films.
Other Sides Of The Movie:
Music of the film is exceptionally great. Mickey J Meyer repeats his magic after Happy Days with this film. The background music and re-recording of the film is equally good. Dialogues by the director Srikanth Addala are very good. Marthand K Venkatesh's editing is smooth. Artwork by Prakash is nice. The CG work and the DI work by Prime Focus also deserve a special mention. Producer Dil Raju made sure that he spends lot of money and quality time on this film. He continues his marathon of classic hits after Arya and Bommarillu with this film.
Final Analysis:
First of the film is decent and the second half is excellent. Like Bommarillu, this film too deals with the problem of parents and kids. In that film, they tried to balance between parents and kids, this film takes some bias towards parents as the kids in this film are doing intermediate unlike the graduates in Bommarillu. If Happy Days makes you feel nostalgic about your engineering college days, KBL will make you feel nostalgic about your intermediate days in a residential college. This film sends good message out to the society. The only thing I did not like in the entire film is that the filmmaker has shown Ahuti Prasad (father of the girl) as a bakra. Go, watch the film and pamper yourself..
5 comments:
I really am disappointed with this review. I am sorry about that. 'Three' movie antey, technically flaws or script flaws annnaaru. fine. But I don't understand, what made you give 4.5/5 to this movie?
You speaking like a teenager, you talking about pros, but what happened to cons?
Don't you think the film misleads the teenagers who live in hostels. How to bunk study hours? spending a whole day together at that age is not a wrong thing?
Can you tell me something new about the movie? I loved the direction, music and entertainment part. But whats new in the script? Not a new story line. Its just a mixed veg curry kind.
I would have given the same rating, provided there were no clues given to the teenagers getting in to wrong track of the life.
All the parents are not same as Balu's nor all the teenagers can wait for 4+ years so patiently. But this movie surely gives an idea to a teenager, "Yes I love her/him. I can wait till I am done with my engineering/medicine". And they keep on committing mistakes during these 4years. They may break-up at any point of the time. But ultimately marriage? A question mark.
Uma Madhavi,
This is 2nd time I am writting the comment.First time i don't know why it did not get posted here ?
This film is not worth to watch...There was no proper theme in the movie.
There were lot of gaps and director cud not convince what he want to prove.
The movie starts in a inter college. He was very gud at showing how people think at this level but slowly lost grip as the movie goes on?
The physics faculty did acting less and overacting more?What made him to get impressed of Hero ? No scene was shown.Just tearing the
book in class in front of faculty will prove that the student is very gud and can achieve anything ?
The definiton given about love and attraction is utter nonsense.In attraction u realy think of the other person more no. of times than in love.
Ok let say the hero is realy in love with heroine then why he did not enquired about the heroine for 4 yrs ?How can he think the girl is staying with his father happily when he asked her to come out and elope? And last but not least is the hero changes his mind when his dad dies.This is point where I realy got sick about the movie.To change a person does it require to kill a character ? If the character wud have died atleast in the process of doing
something to change the hero the story wud have been better.He died just in a accident.Which no where related to stroy.
People are goign just crazy because the film backdrop is college campus.I rate this movies 1/1.5 because the photography,music were good.Instead of routine places the director has shown a new place (Rajamundry).
I agree with the above opinion.
Just to add a sentimental emotion to the movie, a character has been killed with no real flow of the story.
I don’t see any good reason to give a rating for 4 or a 5.
Songs – Good / Average
Direction – Not so impressive.
Concept / Message – ??????.
The review is beautifully written by the ABOVE PEOPLE
There would be so much impact on the students....in india..
i dnot understand ...there is no messaGE in the movie...NO ONE TALKS ABOUT EDUCATION IN THE FILM...HERIONE TALKS ABT FREEDOM AND HERO ..WHATS HIS CHARACTER...
OVERALL..WHAT IS THE MOVIE ABT ....IS THAT LOVE NOW , LEAVE THE GIRL,SETTLE DOWN FORGET ABIUT THE GIRL AND IF U FIND HER AGAIN MARRY HER..
I DNOT UNDERSTAAND...
DNOT ENCOURAGE SUCH MOVIES....
Hey how did you give 4.5/5 rating, these guys are spoiling kid's life, I don't think Intermediate student can take up the message.
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