AADAVARI MATALAKU ARDHALE VERULE REVIEW

MOVIE : AADAVARI MATALAKU AARDHALE VERULE
STARRING : VENKATESH,TRISHA,K VISHWANATH,SRIRAM,SUNIL
MUSIC : YUVAN SHANKER RAJA
DIRECTOR : SRI RAGHAVA
RELEASE DATE : April 27th,2007.
RATING : GOOD


The title appears to have been drawn out of a Pallavi of a song sung by Raja at one time. It is a story of a boy and girl falling in love and yet has to stay away from each other for she was already said to be engaged to another young man. Ganesh (Venkatesh), an unemployed bachelor for a long time lives with his father (Kota Srinivasa Rao), on the latter’s money. On his father’s insistence he attends job interviews. He falls in love with Keerthi (Trisha), an employee of a software company and he too finds a job in the same company with her help and advice. suddenly he lands up in a software company inspired by Keerthi (Trisha). He then wants to marry her and makes a bold attempt of proposing to her in their trip abroad. But she is already engaged to her bava and her marriage is due in a month. Ganesh’s father meets Keerthi and tries to convince her to get her wed to his son. But she resents both Ganesh and his father. His father dies of a heart attack. It is later revealed that Keerthi is getting married to one Vasu (Sriram), Ganesh’s close friend. Vasu takes Ganesh to their village. How Keerthi realizes her fault and loves Ganesh forms the rest of the story.

Needless to say that the movie belongs to Venkatesh who is a major draw of the film. It is Venkatesh movie all the way. His impressive performance stands by him, working out human emotions well in his performance, as good as in sentiment scenes and entertainment. The song duets and romantic scenes are set though it is established she is already set to marry some one else. However the narration and its story line smell quite familiar. Hence the presence of Venkatesh becomes the single factor to make initial head way at box office. Yet it is doubtful whether it can draw repeat audiences. The film has an uneven structure with the first half fully packed with humor. Even here Venkatesh scores. But the trouble lies with the treatment of the subject in second half of the drama. It simply drags. Being a Tamil film and treated by Tamil director, the film oozes some novelty in humor part and sentiment.

Kota Srinivasa Rao’s is an unusual role and his talent is wasted more on sentiment. The saving grace is the musical part carried on by Ilaya Raja’s son Yuvan Raja. One way the film can be said a musical. Venkatesh effortlessly carries on, playing Ganesh sans any hurdles.

Trisha indeed plays well, carrying the audience with her familiar good looks. And the get up given to her as the modern young girl of a software company suited her. She looks confident and convincing. Sriram of ‘Rojapoolu’ fame, a Telugu boy basically, gets a typical role to suit his histrionic tenor. Kota lives up to expecations.

Swathi too bears impressive looks of a teenager. In another character role K Vishwanath looks typed. Balamurugan’s camera work is worth a mention. So is Kola Baskar’s editing, that added some velocity to the film.

Sunil’s comedy part is on separate track. Dialogue part has ups and downs, keeping to the emotional track better. ‘Allantha Dooraniki’ is a haunting melody. The film appears to have taken good money for its making, and to render it visually rich. However it lacks some clarity that a climax really deserves to send the audience ot of the theatre with memories of the film