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Saturday, April 20, 2024
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KANNADA ROMEO (K)
EDITOR'S PICK
`Romeo`
- stylish entertainer on true love
Rating:
***
Ganesh-Bhavana starrer Romeo reaches its young target audience
through its styling and visualisation. The film`s director P.C. Sekhar, who has
done many corporate films, again proves he focuses more on visual strength of a
film.
It is better for technically competent directors like Sekhar to realise that
storytelling on screen does not limit to stylish presentation, but it is much
more than that.
The story goes on like this -- Ganesh is an educated but unemployed young man.
He is a pampered, spoilt brat thanks to his father. Ganesh whiles away time with
his friends doing unproductive things, but he is thedarling of his parents, who
live in a slum.
Ganesh instantly falls for Shruthi after meeting her.
He pretends to be a rich person and even borrows money to present expensive
gifts to Shruthi, the daughter of a bank manager. She too falls for Ganesh and
decides to marry him.
But Shruthi`s father makes an inquiry about Ganesh`s background and manages to
get a suitable boy for his daughter.
On the day of marriage, Ganesh and his father gate crash the bank manager`s
bungalow and take Shruthi out of the house to get married in a sub-registrar`s
office.
After marriage, Shruthi realises she has fallen into a trap and gets angry. She
prepares to take divorce and goes to her father`s residence.
Ganesh tries to convince her that he is in true love, but this time she doesn`t
reciprocate. Finally the confusion gets cleared and Shruthi realises that Ganesh
is now reforming mainly because of deep love towards her.
Romeo could have been few notches better than it is had Sekhar
worked on its second half and tuned it well. However, even with a weak second
half, the movie is quite engaging and is really hilarious in the first half.
The song picturisations are superb and the comedy timing of all the actors
including Ganesh, Rangayana Raghu and Sadhu Kokila, is perfect.
The dialogues by Narayan are crisp and funny at times. The technical support to
the film apart, Romeo also has another strength -- its comedy
elements. But unfortunately, Romeo is also like many well-mounted
technical films which suffered from lack of consistency.
Ganesh is the screen charmer. His look is apt for the role and his dialogue
delivery is superb. In a few emotional sequences, he even makes the audience
weep. In a way, he has shown that he is a complete actor.
Bhavana is a real scene stealer in many sequences inthe second half. She looks
quite glamorous in the song sequences, but it is Rangayana Raghu and Sadhu
Kokila`s comedy timing which assure to tickle your funny bone.
Sudha Belawadi and Avinash have essayed their roles perfectly.
Arjun Janya`s music compositions are quite good. Shreya Ghoshal`s rendering of
Alochane song is sure to top the charts. Vaidhi`s camera work is
stylish.
Watch Romeo despite some of its flaws. It is entertaining and
engaging.
Ganesh, who is well known for playing lover boy in his films, plays a lover boy again in Romeo . The movie, directed by P.C. Shekar (of Nayaka fame),is a romantic drama that revolves around a married couple, who feels their life to be boring post marriage and fight with each other even for petty issues. Malayalam actress Bhavana, Makes big in Kannada from `Jackie and Vishnuvardhana` was Plays the female Lead
In the technical department, Vaidhi takes care of the cinematography, while Arjun Janya has scored the music of the film. the movie contains 7 songs. Besides acting, the film’s lead Ganesh has sung the promotional song ‘Belagageddu Coffee’ as well.
