Starring charmi, Satyadev and others
Director: Puri Jagannadh
Producer: C Kalyan and Charmi
Music: Sunil Kashyap

Rating: 2.5/5

Story:

Jyothi Lakshmi (Charmi) is a sex worker in Gangubhai company run by Narayana Patwari (Ajay Gosh). Jyothi Lakshmi is a very popular girl in the company. One day, Satya (Satyadev) comes there searching her. He used to come for her daily spending lot of money but never even touches her. He alway force her to come out of the mess and settle down in life marrying him. Jyothi Lakshmi first takes it light but later agrees to him. Satya marries Jyothi Lakshmi with the help of his sister and police. However the miscreants of her past come haunting them. Rest of the story is how Jyothi Lakshmi and many such girls are fred from Narayana Patwari.

Performances:

The entire story revolves around Charmi and rightly she gave her 100% to the role. She seem to have lost so much of weight for the character. She excelled in the character of different shades. In the first half, she entices as a prostitute and the second half she is seen as an iron willed woman battering her opponents. Priyadarshini Ram impressed as a police officer. Satyadev came up with a good performance. Ajay Gosh and Brahmanandham did justice to their roles. Rest of the characters are okay.

Technical Performances:

Puri already declared that this story is inspired from Malladi Satyanarayana’s novel. Puri should be appreciated for dealing such sensitive subject. He also made sure that there is a limit to the vulgarity in the film even though the story demands.

Coming to the negatives, the movie lacked the proper emotional depth needed to drive such sensitive points home. The characters of the film do not have that backing to make them look strong for a serious second half. Puri mark racy screenplay is missing. Dialogues are not the usual Puri like punch dialogues but this time they are accompanied with some indepth meaning. Dialogues like “Manasaara L**** kodaka ani kuda analekapotunna..Endukante unko aadadaanni thittinattu avtundi” will have an impact.

Plus Points:

1. Charmi’s performance
2. Sensible Storyline
3. Flashback
4. Puri’s pen

Minus Points:

1. Couple of unwanted songs
2. First half
3. Slow Screenplay and narration

Final Say:

Jyothi Lakshmi will end up as film which is not baked in to a good product even though the intention is good. A little more effort by Puri on the script would have made it ideal but finally he ended up squandering Charmi’s hard work.

SS Rajamouli’s magnum opus film, Baahubali is also creating a sensation of sort in Bollywood too. Never before Bollywood embraced a Telugu film like Baahubali thanks to the association with Karan Johar and his Dharma Productions’ superb marketing. There is a huge demand for the film’s satellite rights from the leading TV channels there.

The makers are expecting a minimum of 20 Crore from this deal. Even though the business is not done yet, they say the bids are almost close or matching the amount. Karan Johar is planning to intensify the promotions of the film with the Audio release of the movie. The movie is also expected to release in a good number of theaters in the North.

Baahubali is the biggest and costliest film ever made on Telugu Screen. Three years of hard work had gone in to the project and the movie is already creating never before seen records in Telugu film trade. The movie is made in two parts and the first part will be hitting the marque on July 10th.

Sai Dharam Tej is just 2 films old in the industry and he is shooting for his third film – Subrahmanyam for Sale. Both Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham and Subrahmanyam for Sale are produced by Dil Raju and now the duo are teaming up for their third venture.

The film is tentatively titled ‘Sathamanam Bhavathi’. Dil Raju will be introducing a new director Satish Vegesna with this film. He earlier worked in the script department of Gabbar Singh and Ramayya Vasthavayya.

Dil Raju is very impressed with Satish’s clarity and okayed this project. The film will go on floors once Sai Dharam Tej completes the shooting of Subrahmanyam for Sale. Dil Raju has the track record of introducing several fine talent to industry like Bommarillu Bhaskar, Sukumar, Srikanth Addala etc. We will see if Satish Vegesna is his new find and contribution to Tollywood.