A picturesque background of ‘Aruku’ and the area around is a long visual Poetry all along with the reels. One movie for a tour to go, for a picnic to stay and people to know them as they were surely gives a well-planned, lovely family holiday experience.
The content is like reading a book where ‘picture talks’ more of the people in a place clearly explored in a non-documentary style. The storyline is a couple of incidents and the people’s behaviour webbed to them.
The hero Sathyadev is such a handsome guy that he can be called a ‘Tailor’s dream’. Yet he plays a common man and a rejected lover gracefully. What a neat carryover with memories to remember and to forget at the same time?
The heroin or perhaps the hero’s new girlfriend done by ‘Roopa Koduvayur’ is a sonnet of rhyme and rhythm to go ‘by heart’ instantly. Her sudden ‘mob show dance’ was a pickle near the mug of beer. This ‘Black coal’ in her next stage can be a ‘blue diamond’.
This director has carefully eschewed away the usual Telugu cinema spices and made the viewers taste a cup of ‘terrain dust’ tea in the ‘cold of winter’ ambiance. A remarkable climatic presentation.
As a part of the critique I can take sarcastic firearms to fusillade with some points. But I won’t. This film deserves a respect by all means.
This feel-good film is a ‘ fine cut gem’ and a rare one to be seen. I shall call it ‘Samanthaka Gem’ and wish for more such ‘novel’ pictures to come in the future.
Srirangam Ramesh
Btw – Look at the title towering in Sanskrit. As a non-conventional language analyst, I wonder why people claim that Telugu originated from Tamil. Sure it hasn’t. The fat bottom trunk of Telugu is Sanskrit. Period.