For Seenu (Gopichand) it is love at first sight with Sailaja (Regina) when they are travelling from Hyderabad to Tirupati. In a typical cinematic manner, she avoids him but later reveals that she too fell for him at first sight.

Twist in the tale is that Sailaja turns out to be daughter of a very powerful political broker in Kolkota who is planning to marry off his daughter to Chief Minister’s son. Sailaja doesn’t like this alliance.

On the other hand Seenu’s father doesn’t like to make alliances with people who are violent. Then how he wins his love is the rest of the drama.

Once done it is novelty. If you change it a bit and present it in same manner again, even then it can be excused. If it is done repeatedly, it is no longer soukyam for audiences. Gopichand and A S Ravikumar Chowdhary’s Soukyam stinks full with stale scenes.

Heroine coming into hero’s house and some artistes are called in to act as heroine’s father and mother to impress the hero’s father which leads to confusion and thereby generating some laughs. This beaten to death formula has been used by writers Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan in many movies and is again the basis of this film.

The writers’ team must be enjoying comfortably that they made directors and producers’ big bakras by giving same scene paper for every movie yet being paid handsomely but the audiences don’t get that soukyam in the theatre.

There is no proper script to begin with; hence the writers and director have filled the movie with a comedy scene after comedy scene and a spoof after a spoof. Some comedy scenes are funny but many of them are just plain bore.

Regina’s father in the film is introduced as most powerful person but he acts like a local street leader. Pradeep Rawath’s role is another hackneyed one. The family drama involving Mukesh Rishi brings more yawns.

Although the first half of the movie is somewhat okay, the second half makes you want to search for the immediate exit door.

Gopichand’s lack of interest in the film is also quite visible with his dull performance. Also the so-called comedy and spoofs are too predictable.

Bramhanandam’s lengthy climax episode is perfect example how lazy the writing is in the movie. The writers clearly ran out of ideas.

All in all, after delivering a hit with Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham, director A S Ravi Kumar Chowdhary looked for his soukyam that leaves audiences in kashtam and dukham.


Greatandhra