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Movie:Gajibiji
Banner:Gayathri Arts
Rating:2.00
Released On:Aug 8, 2008
There is an industrialist who has a big bungalow in Hyderabad. He keeps one Kasi Viswanath as caretaker of his house and leaves for the US and settles there. However, the caretaker dies and his nephew (menalludu) Chintu (Venumadhav) takes over the building and rent it out to four families. One family is headed by Pekata Papa Rao (MS Narayana). His son Prabhu (Prabhakar) and daughter-in-law, both are employees and the man is a hen-pecked husband. Prabhu has a brother (Yashwant) who is fond of photography. So the wife looks her father-in-law very mean, but he never cares. Another portion is occupied by a factionist, the third one is being occupied by a former film actor (Balayya). His daughter (Farjana) works in a bank, his son (Raghubabu) craves to become a film hero. There is another portion occupied by a middle-class family. The man (Brahmanandam) who heads the family, marries his daughter (Hema) to a boy (Krishna Bhagawan), by making a false claim that he owned the house. Prabhu falls in love with the actor's daughter and appeals to her to act as his model. Though she refuses his offer in the beginning, she agrees after seeing his honesty.
Analysis :
As the title rightly suggests, the movement of the story is quite haphazard. Though there is a hero and heroine there is no prominence for them, as the entire story revolves around three characters, Ali, Venumadhav and Kota Srinivasa Rao (in dual roles). Comedy by other artistes including seniors like Brahmanandam, Krishna Bhagawan, Costumes Krishna, Ram Jagan, Uttej, Harshavardhan have failed to tickle the funny bone. With no gripping story and awful screenplay, the audiences will not understand what is happening on the screen and who is the real hero in the film. Neither the songs, nor its tunes are melodious, but are literally used to attract the mass audiences with the heroine's exposure of glamour. Even the voice dubbed to her is very dramatic and has no depth in it. The director could not establish some characters. The climax is further atrocious, as the director made the audiences fools by enacting a bank robbery drama.
TeluguOne Perspective :
It is once again proved that bringing out a film totally based on comedy is not that easy and one need good time sense and comedy timing to tickle the funny bone. Mere experience in films would also not fetch knowledge and the director cum producer have failed to catch the pulse of audiences.