English | Telugu

Movie:Aalayam
Banner:Trendset Films
Rating:2.00
Released On:Aug 2, 2008
Rajayya (KB Tilak), has three sons and two daughters. His sons (Ranganath, Chalapati Rao and Naresh) stay in the US. However, Rajayya calls his sons to return to India to develop their own village, as all of them earned sufficient money for their family. Being very loyal to Rajayya, his sons accept his words and settle in the village and establish a sugar factory, a spinning mill, a super speciality hospital and jointly look after all the properties by staying together. Even their wives (Geetanjali, Sita and Ragini) are very cooperative and never fight with each other on any occasion. All their children play together. Once, Rajayya's granddaughter falls in love with one of their employees called Sai (Raghu). Irked over this, all the brother thrash Sai. The same day, the girl elopes with Sai. Though Rajayya's sons realise their mistake, they can not trace where Sai and his family are staying. Rajayya successfully completes 100 years and the entire family plans a grand celebration.
Analysis :
All through the film the director tried to explain how a combined family stay together and the happenings in a family with a boring screenplay. The audiences feel bored to watch the same scenes which occur in their families and regular life. Entertainment and comedy are almost nil, though there are senior artistes like Brahmanandam, Jayaprakash Reddy, Mallikarjuna Rao, Gautamraju and others are present in the film. The director has failed to utilise the huge star cast to bring out a good entertainer. Though KB Tilak has given the role of the grand old man of the house, he could not please the audience with his performance. The senior director might have learnt a lesson that it is not so easy to act. Music is very old fashioned and is not at all appealing.
TeluguOne Perspective :
The audiences, who go to the theatre for entertainment, face embarrassment as they once again have to watch the regular family episodes on the lines of a TV serial on a big screen. The film proved that time has come for the senior directors to relax and guide the juniors on film-making instead of bringing out old-fashioned films, which do not suit the taste of the current generation audiences. In the absence of any mass masala elements and interesting love, romantic scenes that could attract the youth, the chances of the film becoming a hit is almost nil.