DUBAI SEENU (TELUGU)

MOVIE : DUBAI SEENU
STARRING : RAVITEJA,NAYANATARA,J D CHAKRAVARTHY,NEHA,SUNIL,BRAHMANANDAM,M S NARAYANA
MUSIC : MANI SHARMA
DIRECTOR : SRINU VYTLA
RELEASE DATE : 07-07-2007.
RATING : AVERAGE

Dubai Seenu is yet another typical Ravi Teja film. However, Sreenu Vytla has taken a lot of care and effort to make him look soft and sweet. Ravi Teja is well known as a rugged and brutally honest young man in all his films. While retaining the mannerisms of Ravi Teja to an extent, a deliberate attempt has been made by the director to soften the image of Ravi Teja for reasons best known to him.
The film has a thin story line. Dubai Seenu (Ravi Teja) is an unemployed youth who like most people of his age has this burning desire to go to Dubai and make it rich. He lands up in Mumbai along with his friends including Brahmanadam, only to be duped by a conman played by Venu Madhav.But the middlemen in Mumbai deceives Seenu. Seenu losts entire money that he brings from home. Seenu lives in Mumbai by selling Pav Baji on the streets of Mumbai.
Seenu happens to meet Madhumathi (Nayanatara) in Mumbai . Madhumathi is in Mumbai in search of her brother. Seenu expresses his love to her but she asks Seenu to come down to a Railway station when she is leaving to Hyderabad, where she wants to reply to Seenu's love.
The hero watches helplessly as his close friend and his wife are killed by the underworld don Jinnah. He follows the villain to Hyderabad and single handedly finishes off the underworld don. The climax scene is short and sweet with Ravi Teja killing Jinnah in cowboy style, much to the delight of his fans.
What the entire AP police could not accomplish, the hero manages to do it single handedly. And he is rewarded with a job in the same police department!
Ravi Teja executes his role with perfection. the role of Raviteja was hilarious in the first half and Ravi also looks handsome. The pair Nayanatara and Raviteja appears to be good. The story is scripted keeping Raviteja in mind and Ravi's role is 100% tailor made for him
Madhumathi (Nayantara) as a Radio Jockey is quite convincing,she looks ravishing throughout the film. Her beauty has been captured wonderfully in the song ‘Kanya Raasi Maguva…The picturisation of this particular song is quite beautiful. ’ She at times resembles the ravishing beauty from Bollywood, Raveena Tandon.
Sayaji Shinde as a police officer gets to play comedy in the film. He dominates the screen for most of the time.
JD Chakravarthi and Neha(dil fame) plays a surprise guest role in the film. Brahmanadam is wasted as his comic talents are not fully utilized by the director. But this is more than made up by MS Narayana in his brief cameo role as an aged hero Solomon Raj. He manages to raise quite a few laughs. His kidnap reminds on of the kidnap of Kannada Raj Kumar by sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. Raghu Babu plays a routine role.
The biggest (and welcome) surprise is the villain. In a refreshing departure from the set convention, the villain is both young and good looking. And the villain also does not seem to have any bad habits, except for slitting throats. Another surprise (much to the disappointment of the young male audience) there is no item number in the film! Unbelievable especially when the villain happens to be a big don ruling the underworld.
The reference to the recent bomb blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad surprises the audience.
Sunil gets a chance to exhibit his dancing skills in the title song ‘Dubai Seenu…’Except for these two, the rest of the songs are average composed by Manisharma.
The best thing about the film is that it has no trace of vulgarity and thee are no double meaning dialogues. Except during the climax, there is also not much violence in the film. The film is a good time pass though a bit slow, particularly in the first half. The real film begins only just before the interval. One comes out of the theatre feeling that the first half of the film has been wasted.
It now remains to be seen if Ravi Teja’s fans love him in his new soft look, or would they prefer to see him in his old and rugged but flamboyant style.
The director Sreenu Vytla molded the film on the lines of his previous film Venky. The suspense element in the movie is appreciable and the entire credit goes to director for the screenplay.
Cinematography by Bharani K Dharan is good. Fights are ok.
Analysis: Finally , the film has good comedy and one can watch once. The feedback from B and C centers may be good when compare to A centre. It is a good entertainer ends with an average result.