Seeta Ramula Kalyanam .... Lankalo

Nitin & Hansika team up for this movie. Nitin is hoping for a success after 13 consecutive flops. Hansika's last movie Jayeebhava was a flop. Let's see if this movie does anything for them. Here's what I thought of the movie.

Film: Seeta Ramula Kalyanam .... Lankalo

Cast: Nitin, Hansika, Suman, Jayaprakash Reddy, Salim Panda, Subba Raju, Bramhanandam, Ali, M.S. Narayana & Others.

Music: Anoop Rubens

Producer: Malla Vijaya Prasad

Director: Eshwar Reddy

Release Date: January 22nd, 2010

My Rating: 2/5

What's It About?

Chandu(Nitin) is a college student who falls in love with Nandini(Hansika) after she lectures him about the injurious effects of smoking. He puffs and pants, fights and rants and wins her over. Nandini's dad Peddi Reddy(Suman) is a factionist(but of course!) and his rival factionist Jayaprakash Reddy's son Veera Pratap(Salim Panda) falls in love with Nandini when he comes across her at a function. Veera Pratap kidnaps Nandini and wants to get married to her(Duh!). Chandu goes to Veera Pratap's house and plots to save his love. The marriage of Chandu & Nandini forms the climax. Now, the analysis.

Artist Performance:

I admire the audacity of the producers and directors who come forward to make movies with Nitin time and again.How he gets to work with top actresses like Illeana, Hansika, Kajal etc. beats me. Coming to his performance, Nitin has a lot to improve in terms of acting, emoting and dialogue  delivery. Hansika has nothing major to do except pout and look pretty and she does her job well. Salim Panda plays the villain, who has to shout, beat his lungs and tear his clothes in every scene and that he does fantastically. Suman is unconvincing as a factionist and thankfully he does not have a lot of screen presence.  Bramhanandam, Ali and Subba Raju are entertaining. Jayaprakash Reddy plays a factionist for the nth time and he does it with gusto.

This & That:

As you can see, there is no novelty in the plot. Same old story served the same old way. First half of the movie is dragging and moves at a snail's pace. The second half is better with the nice comedy track between Bramhanandam, Ali and Subba Raju. M.S. Narayana's principal act was tawdry. Music by Anoop Rubens is strictly ok; with kiss me and  cheetiki maatiki being the better picks of the lot. Choreography is good and Nitin does a commendable job in dances. The Sri Lanka devullu  concept is funny. If it wasn't for the post interval part of the movie; my rating would have been 1/5 only for the effort that went into making this movie. Nitin should stop concentrating on his 6 pack abs and start taking acting classes.

Did I Enjoy It?

No, except for the second half. When compared to the other releases, this movie's performance at the box office will be absymal.