Pelli Choopulu Movie Review
Story:
Pelli Choopulu is the story of two individuals – Prashanth (Vijay Devarakonda) and Chitra (Ritu Varma) with exactly opposite characters. Chitra has high ambitious in life while Prashanth is lazy bum who just tries to lead life by living on others. They happened to meet for a prospective alliance. Rest of the story is how one influences the other and get together before bringing the inevitable change in their lives.
Performances:
Vijay Devarakonda – The Doodh Kashi guy in Yevade Subrahmanyam is a perfect in the film as a lazy bum. However he had to go a long way in getting his ‘act’ right. Interestingly, he is good when he tries to be himself but appears awkward when he tries to act. There are no difficult emotions, so it is easy for him to sail through. Ritu Varma is a darling in the film and has got so much of screen presence to fit in the straight forward role. In many situations, she outdid the male lead. Nandu is good in the little role he is given while Kaushik who played the friend role is good. Anish Kuruvilla is fine in a small role while Gururaj Manepalli is okay in the significant role he got after a long time. Rest of them are not making much impact.
Technical Performances:
Tharun Bhascker who is famous for a super hit short film, is making his directional debut with this film and he lives up to the reputation in his first attempt with cinema. Pelli Choopulu has got a wafer thin plot but the screenplay and treatment did the trick. More over the performances have got well to connect with the audience. The first half of the film is slow paced as the story is not moving much. Even though every thing is predictable from the start, the proceedings are very freshly presented and embedded with some good comedy. In the second half, the emotions takes over and covers the pace as well.
Vivek Sagar’s Music suits the mood of the film even though it is not exceptional any where. The camera work is good and brings the rich feel to the film. Editing is neat and the dialogues are well written to invoke comedy. Production Values are okay to the film’s range.
Plus Points:
Clean entertainer
Screenplay
Climax
Few hilarious imaginative scenes
Minus Points:
Slow pace
Predictability
Final Say:
Pelli Choopulu is a clean family entertainer which we can sit and enjoy amid the heavy duty films we have in the last few months. A little publicity push will work wonders for the film at the box office. Give it a try!
