The kidnap theme is a straight take from the Aranya Kanda, but there are plenty of other references. I also appreciate the references to the Ramayana throughout the story. I really like her characters attitude even if she is a little too gullible when it came to her father and too ready to believe the worst of Venkat. But Sailaja fights back too and isn’t at all a typical sobbing heroine. In the later scenes Prabhas is all action, which he does so well, especially with the great fight scenes choreographed by Peter Hein. After all as Sailaja puts it, Venkat is tall and handsome – what more does a girl need? Their first meetings in the rain are beautifully captured and make good use of the hazy lighting. They have great chemistry, especially in the songs and the love story comes across as natural and unforced. Unlike Venkat who has a much better appreciation of the things that matter to Sailaja.Īlthough the story itself is nothing new, the appeal here lies in the performances of Prabhas and Trisha who really do bring their romance to life. Sailaja’s mother is a bit of a wet blanket and unable to take a stand against her scheming husband, whereas her grandmother actively supports her relationship with Venkat and obstructs Bhandranna as much as she can.īhandranna doesn’t stand a chance though – he has entirely the wrong opinion about the rain. Luckily for Sailaja she has the support of her feisty and opinionated grandmother who has a very low opinion of her son-in-law. This is exactly the path he follows and even when his daughter is later kidnapped by Bhadranna he’s still tries to make the situation turn out to his advantage. He plays Venkat and Bhandranna off against each other, reasoning that he can use Venkat to get rid of Bhandranna and therefore his debt, and then separate Sailaja and Venkat. And despite appearances, Ranga Rao is wilier than Bhadranna gives him credit for.
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This will naturally pay extremely well, plus hopefully be a source of revenue for years to come, so Ranga Rao is in no hurry to marry his daughter off. Luckily, a film producer has seen Sailaja and is desperate for her to act as his latest heroine. But while Bhadranna has schemed to put Rango Rao in his debt, trying to use his weakness for gambling to force Sailaja into marriage, Rango Rao is one step ahead. Sailaja’s father Ranga Rao (Prakash Raj) is a drunken gambler who wants to make the best use possible of his daughter to fund his chosen life style. However, just as the rain clouds form again there is the small problem of Bhadranna who has come to Sailja’s house to arrange marriage with her. Since the rain seems to bring them together they make a pact to meet again when it next pours. Venkat and Sailaja are separated as the train moves off, but find each other the next time precipitation hits their local market in Warangal.
There’s a great pigeon move in here too and I’m very impressed by Trisha’s grasp of the bird-impression genre of dance step. Once the rain starts Sailaja leaps out onto the platform to dance with total child-like abandon. She follows the ‘dance as if no-one is watching’ creed, despite the fact that everyone is actually watching her and this is a very fun song with plenty of dorky moves by Trisha.
Venkat and Bhadranna first both see her at a train station where their train has been delayed. Sailaja is a fun-loving girl who adores the rain, and I fully understand and endorse her compulsion to dance in it at every possible opportunity. Trisha plays Sailaja, the girl who both Venkat (Prabhas) and Bhadranna (Gopichand) lay claim to.
Add in Prakash Raj as ‘Prakash Bad Dad’ and it’s much more entertaining than it first sounds. But when one of those two is Prabhas and the other is Gopichand it’s suddenly a lot more fun. The story involves two guys fighting over the heroine like dogs over a bone, with each one growling ‘she’s mine’ at appropriate intervals. Varsham is a typical Prabhas action/romance movie. Even though his films seem to follow a similar pattern, he brings enough personality to each character that I’m usually happy to watch no matter how many plot holes or illogical scenes there seem to be and this film does have a few of those. He always seems to be a little surprised to be the hero of any film and with his height and general gangliness he has a ‘St Bernard puppy’ type of cuteness that is very endearing.
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