Priyamaina Neeku Review

Going by the market trends you'd expect a decent enough musical entertainer from the acclaimed producer R B Choudary. And from Tarun you'd look forward to a sizzling sentimental love story. What you get instead is a silly sentimental drama that seems to be made solely to capitalize on the popularity of Tarun.

The premise is interesting. A shy girl Sandhya (Sneha) falls in love with a happy-go-lucky guy Ganesh (Tarun), the son of a junkyard dealer, whose only pastime is marrying off teenage couples who fall in love, much to the chagrin of their parents. Unable to let her love known to Ganesh, she asks her sister, Sirisha (Preeti), to convey her intentions to Ganesh. But the jealous sister would rather have Ganesh for herself.

The film starts off on a good note with Ganesh finding a diary in one of the junk cupboards and starting to read it. And he is shocked by the blow-by-blow account of Sandhya's love story and her harboring intentions of marrying him. So far so good, you'd be tempted to say. Actually, not very. There is no spark in the narration, and the director uses very cut and dry methods that aren't in the least moving.

Ganesh also develops a soft corner for Sandhya, and spurns the love of Sirisha. And fearing that she too might end up with a similar fate, Sandhya keeps her love to herself. Meanwhile, her father is transferred to Vizag and the confiding in the diary comes to an end. But the hero decides to give a fillip to the love story and goes in search of Sandhya, to Vizag.

Except for the idea the diary from which the movie unfolds, there is nothing novel about the film. As the movie progresses the plot falls by the wayside and traditional Tollywood tricks are churned out to make you laugh or feel sorry for the heroine or the hero. It gets more and more silly as we enter the second half of the film, and by the climax it all seems so cliched and contrived that you want to walk out of the theater.

The age-old story of unknown persons, in this case Sivaji and Tarun, becoming the best of friends while the latter is on the voyage to discover his girlfriend and her getting engaged to the former is too stupid to even think of in this Internet age. But that is how the film is, though a couple of songs are good and shot well. Apart from that there is hardly anything in the movie that would make it a worthwhile visit to the theater.