Movie: Love Story
Rating: 3/5
Banner: Sree Venkateswara Cinemas
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Sai Pallavi, Easwari Rao, Devyani, Rajeev Kanakala, Uttej, and others
Cinematography: Vijay C Kumar
Music: Pawan CH
Producers: Narayan Das K Narang Puskar Ram Mohan Rao
Written and directed by: Sekhar Kammula
Release Date: Sep 24, 2021
What Is the Movie Regarding?
Revanth (Naga Chaitanya) is a reduced caste town person that concerns Hyderabad city to begin a service. He runs a Zumba centre. Mounika (Sai Pallavi) is an abundant woman from the same village, Armur. She has finished B.Tech and intends to get a work. Nonetheless, she falls short to obtain one after a number of tests.
How do Revanth and also Mounika fulfill each other? How did they fall in love? The conflict they encounter and also the resolution creates the fundamental story of the Love Story.
Performances
Naga Chaitanya and also Sai Pallavi are the primary leads in the movie. The whole film works on their shoulders. Among both, however, it is Naga Chaitanya who leads the way. It does not suggest Sai Pallavi is less, however we have actually seen her do a comparable sparkling as well as chirpy role with undercurrent feelings previously. When it concerns Naga Chaitanya, Love story is a complete discovery.
Naga Chaitanya plays a lower class person, a far cry from his abundant kid components. It is a based and well-shaped component. The Telangana accent (a lighter capillary one) includes in the newness. On the other hand, Sai Pallavi is her usual self, showing confidence as well as showing first-class feelings. Simply put, Naga Chaitanya is the fresh plan of Love Story and ends up delivering his best.
Analysis
Sekhar Kammula directs Love Story. He is a senior supervisor with an unique design. The assumptions for his films are normally high. Romance is right down his ally, both in its strengths and weak points.
In such a way, Love Story is similar to Life Is Attractive. Both were follow-ups to his career-best smash hits flicks, Fidaa and also Delighted Days, respectively. Not only that, there is atmosphere elements of the class divide in them, as well. Sekhar Kammula has just grown bolder and more clear since then, and also it shows Love Story. Yet, first things firsts, Love Story, as the title suggest, starts as a Love Story. The fun and chemistry are put in the first half of the movie. It is combined with Zumba classes as well as the romantic tensions in between the lead set.
While the concept is correct, Sekhar Kammula falls short to obtain the chemistry right in Love Tale. There are periodic glances of the ‘vintage’ directorial touch, but that happens insufficient and also away. A whole lot is occurring; so much is loaded within the first half itself. It makes it looks extensive and also bloated. The much-expected magic never ever occurs.
Still, the very first half gives a passable sensation as a result of its lighter tone. The second fifty percent takes a full u-turn to a major mode. It is okay if one wishes to tackle the subject seriously. Numerous successful movies did the very same as well as prevailed. Yet, Sekhar Kammula fails to provide a fresh take on the serious issue he chooses to address. It is another issue that the ‘subject’ itself is barely anything new.
The lack of quality and the entirely major tone with weak writing makes the 2nd half tiring. The engaging drama is missing. What Love Story required was more scenes like the one in the burial ground in the direction of the end. The lack of such fresh viewpoint and also presentation on a done to death subject is where Love Story fumbles.
Consider this, such is the severe tone that when the film’s most well-known tune ‘Saranga Dariya’ begins screen, it feels lost from an additional film. The reality that it does not even seem like alleviation needs to tell the level to which things have gone north.
Nonetheless, all things said and also done, the motif it takes on is serious whether it’s brand-new or not. That it is highlighted in a big star-studded affair deserves praise.
Finally, besides the melodrama and also emotional turmoil, the film finishes abruptly and also on a predictable note. It really feels as if the director himself has had sufficient as well as intends to get performed with the procedures.
Overall, Love Story is a well-intentioned motion picture with excellent spreading. The movie script, as well as composing, nonetheless, makes the narrative completely dry and also dull. We end up with a passable watch, and that as well is generally for the talent involved on and off the screen.
Sai Pallavi and Others?
As Sekhar Kammula has actually stated at Love Story’s unplugged event, he has actually got understood faces for supporting duties for the first time. So, we have names like Easwari Rao, Devayani, Rajeev Kanakala, as well as Uttej play important roles in the motion picture.
Easwari Rao is trustworthy as ever and also satisfies of playing the mother of the hero. Rajeev Kanakala is a surprise plan playing a character that one would certainly hate. Uttej is constantly a welcome visibility on display, and that also when he obtains something substantial to do. Sai Chand radiates in the short moments he gets to enact. And also lastly, Devayani gets her time towards completion. The remainder of the actors has very little to do and also don’t particularly excite.
Music and Other Departments?
Pawan Ch making his launching as music supervisor is a variety. While the ‘sound’ he has actually thought of is exceptional, it is also completely dry and adds to the dryness of the script. It accentuates the never-ending sensation of the proceedings. The background rating is sufficient. The cinematography by Vijay C Kumar is excellent partly. The modifying by Marthand K Venkatesh should have been shaper. The whole movie needs some trimming. The writing is unqualified the past criteria of Sekhar Kammula.
Bottom line: Captivating music and Sai Pallavi’s magic
