A beautiful tour into Kashmir followed by a trip to Uthra Karnataka, and the Kannada dialect of the place has made a refreshing treat of a fine film.
A peculiar storyline of the retrospective incidents of three children given away for adoption by hapless parents to three different others is an unfounded recipe of greater emotions woven carefully into the future.
Motherhood as defined is kept on the highest pedestal and revered as God’s gift of the highest order. It is well shown up as the only gift with which the families in the society thrive as we should know.
The effort put into taking the story as lightly as possible has quite helped a deep drama to end as a feel-good reality.
The quality of filmmaking in Kannada has come to the next level of competence both in content preparation and technical presentation.
All the lead artists have lived the role and the mothers especially were each characteristic in their own way.
Umashree(Saroja) is a veteran with her intact signature as a mother.
Shruti (Yellavva)in a couple of scenes gives some supremely spectacular performances and reminds us the school of director K.Balachandar.
Dananjaya is fit as a fiddle but there is no reason that he should look exasperated all through.
Pramod Panju (Uddal Babu Rao) is a handsome pro who could run up the ladder effortlessly for bigger scores in the future.
Motherhood is omnipresent in the ‘Prapanch’ we live.
The finest punch in the last sermon is that if anyone is given a choice to tell one word to his mother, the word ‘Sorry’ is more appropriate than saying ‘Thanks’ to her.
A very civilized movie for a ‘family’ to watch.
Srirangam Ramesh
26/10/2021