Nari Nari Naduma Murari, produced by AK Entertainments and Adventures International Pvt Ltd, hits the cinemas. In this section, we are going to review the latest BO release.
Story:
Gowtham (Sharwanand) falls in love with Nithya (Sakshi Vaidya) and the couple plans to marry. Although Nithya’s father (Sampath Raj) agrees to the alliance, his consent comes with reluctance. Citing a random reason, he insists on a quiet registration marriage. However, unresolved issues from Gowtham’s past resurface, and it involves his past flame, Dia (Samyuktha), his college-time girlfriend. Caught between his present and a complicated past, Gowtham finds himself facing a double whammy.
Performances & Technical Departments:
The performances are not restrained because this has been made as a deliberate entertainer. Characters, particularly those of Sharwanand and VK Naresh (the male lead's almost-playboy dad), are given to mild exaggeration. They let their acting chops take the script farther and farther!
Sunil plays an official at the registration office, and it's a relief that he is not under pressure to tickle the funny bone. Satya plays an auto driver who must atone for a 'sin' in a display of comically excessive guilt. Vennela Kishore plays Gunasekhar, an idiosyncratic lawyer who acts as a common link to the male lead and his short-tempered future father-in-law. Sudharshan plays Gowtham's friend, who is more than just a sidekick. Sree Vishnu's cameo is effective in the climax. Sivannarayana and Raghu Babu have cameos, while Getup Srinu is stiff and under-utilized. Srikanth Iyengar plays Dia's flustered father. Siri Hanumanth plays the wife of a 50-something old man.
The cinematography by Gnanasekhar VS and Yuvaraaj is good. Vishal Chandrasekhar's songs are tonally off to an extent; while they are not bad, they sometimes don't sit well with the quirky tone of the scenes.
Post-Mortem:
Director Ram Abbaraju is turning out to be the Anil Ravipudi of middle-range heroes. After Sree Vishnu-starrer Samajavaragamana, he once again toys with eccentric characters who are conventionally supposed to belong to the comedian-in-chief's household rather than the hero's. VK Naresh's character marries someone who is twenty-five years younger than him; the whole track is a sure-fire laugh riot, with everyone around him shaming him for the crime of, well, finding love. The only person who respects him unconditionally is his son, the protagonist who is destined to be mired in a wicked quagmire. The son and father are co-conspirators as much as they are silly in different ways.
The story (by Bhanu Bogavarapu) and dialogues (by Nandu Savirigana) are right on the money. At first, the storyline appears to lack soul. Its wafer-thin exterior gives way to newer layers in the second half. Gowtham's backstory gets revealed in installments, a narrative technique that keeps the audience busy until the end.
The nature of comedy built around the formality of registration marriage is there not as a needless distraction but as a consequential idea. For Sharwanand's Gowtham, the world is so small that he keeps running into everyone he needs to and doesn't need to - and yet the screenplay doesn't seem contrived. The birthday function track in the second half is hilarious. The two court scenes are engaging.
The situations would have seemed artificial and forced in a poor comedy. Since the fun quotient keeps soaring (the second hour is better than the first, which is a rarity in the era of 'second half syndrome'), we don't search for believability.
Closing Remarks:
Nari Nari Naduma Murari is a refreshing comedy that defies the dreaded "second-half syndrome." While the plot appears wafer-thin on the surface, director Ram Abbaraju expertly layers the narrative with eccentric characters and genuine laughs.
