A ROTTEN LOVE STORY

                                                  A ROTTEN LOVE STORY

The very first day of college, a boy happens to see a girl, he gets attracted, their looks meet, the boy who stays conserved around the girl  finally gets introduced to her, a cute friendly relationship blossoms, of course it doesn’t stay longer after all “love” comes into the scenario. The girl remains confused and keeps him struggling in the line. These are the few steps that have been happening around in any “routine love story” that we have been tolerating past few years. This so called routine love story is nothing special from the above said lines. The movie which holds the title “routine” as a part of it definitely remains eccentric in another way which I will be telling you in a moment.

 As of now, this story casts Sundeep Kishan, Regina in the leads and some veterans for the roles of hardly- supporting cast. Of course for any movie there will be a take off point for sure, it might be 10 min from the start, 20 min or at least after the boring first half. But here it keeps us waiting till 120 minutes (total run) and finally “takes us off” to the mood of relief as the movie ends. The movie clutches many flaws till its end. It starts with a dull notion keeping you lethargic to the seats and never amuses you. The director tries to alter the mood of the audience with the old tonics like the “routine” college tours where the hero gains sufficient sympathy points, never ending cat fights between the love-leads, the routine friends who concentrate more on the lead’s love problems rather than on anything else. But nothing keeps us in sync with the narration. From the first day the movie has been publicising that it’s entirely a novel story but titled as a “routine love story” for fun reason. Sadly they were true, it had nothing new to offer on the silver canvas. The irony is the title suits the story much better. It justifies perfectly. 

Sudeep kishan who had been damn promising in Prasthanam is just ok in this tedious script. Somewhere the shades of Prasthanam were still entangled around his looks and dialogue delivery, it looks odd at times. Probably we need to see him in lot many movies to get acquainted to the “lovable-boy” appeal on the screen. Heroine did what she was allotted neatly. The characters are not deep rooted and not at all intense so it doesn’t make an impact of any of the characters walking out of the hall. Music isn’t that good. Mickey delivered average tunes. Perhaps it was the narration that made it much weaker and rather instigated us to neglect it. Cinematography and editing were just normal. Director Praveen Sattaru who delivered a stunning debut with the cheerfully acclaimed “LBW”, stammers a lot this time with his poor story, screenplay and dialogues. Heavy expectations about the director will badly ruin our watch for this one. Nothing is good enough.

 Performances from Tagubothu Ramesh, Ms Narayana were just average and we never expand our lips giggling to their awful comic sense. Scenes depicting Ms Narayana in the second half are stupid, logic less and annoying. The movie ends over an amateurish note that delivers nothing relishing rather than few lines on “misogyny” and a moral “to buy something for the girl you love to make up your little fights and keep her happy”.

After the tiresome 2 hrs of effort rather than being a routine love story it turns out to be a “rotten” one. Ultimately we come out of the theatres wiping off the foreheads, playing our hands through the scalp for the relief, sighing heavily and finally realising that we have seen a “rotten love story”.

Giving one and a half stars makes me a Good Samaritan.

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