Parthu | Theatres List

Parthu is an attempt at making a commercially viable mass film. However, the film remains just an attempt, as the director ends up making a movie that banks too heavily on pathos and drags endlessly like a soap opera on television.

Parthu (Lawrence) is the younger son of Seetaramayya (Nasser) and Jankamma (Saranya). In full sync with the way the hero's character is designed in these kinds of films, the director characterises him as a good-for-nothing guy, with a heart of gold.

Parthu's father and siblings loathe him, as they consider him to be a burden; and frankly, in t....