"ANANDA THANDAVAM"Movie Revew
How many times have we come out of the theatre after watching a film not knowing what impact it had on us, whether we liked it or not? Ananad Thandavam or the dance of happiness doesn’t exactly deliver the feeling. It keeps you wondering throughout the film, what the director is trying to tell you. If he is portraying life in America, that there are Indians with values in USA and some without values in India.
This is a story of a teen aged girl Madhumita (Tamannah) who is fickle, confused and dependent on her parents for every decision she takes in her life. There is some innocence about her and Raghu (Rishabh) falls for this quality in her. Her parents encourage the friendship between both and fix their wedding. Just when everything seems to be going well and too soon, Tamannah drops him like a hot potato for a more educated, wealthy NRI Radhakrishna (Rishi), on her parent's advice. A heart broken Raghu moves to the USA after his father tells him that the best way to seek revenge is to better oneself and prosper in life proving detractors completely wrong. As expected Tamannah lands in the same city as Raghu and bumps into him, behaves so normally as if nothing unpleasant ever happened before.
The confusion mounts as Raghu's betrothal with Ratna (Rukmini) is announced and the former is found drawn to his ex lady love. Does Madhumita leave her husband for him, does Raghu dump Ratna for Madhumita forms the rest of the story. The film has been shot on a lavish scale, cinematography is beautiful, and Tammanah gets into the skin of her character giving credibility to her confused role.
There are a few drawbacks, the film is too lengthy, most of the characters are shown as negative in nature and sometimes the attitude of Tamannah's parents seem unrealistic. The director keeps one in a quandary throughout the film making us guess if Madhumita suffers from some traumatic history behaving the way she does.
There is a parallel plot too. The hero misunderstanding his father for having a relationship with the maid. The director again misleads you and then finally shows that the hero has been too imaginative. The director throws life also on the newly weds who have moved to USA, the unsettling lifestyle that Indians have got used to, their insecurities, compromises and the tenacity with which they hold on the indian culture despite being NRIs. The contemporary issue of blacks shooting people for a few dollars also has been shown.
Rukmini has done a neat job, Rishabh is most of the time seen with a crest fallen face, Tamannah excels but there is little hope the film will click with the masses. Dialogues are fine, music is just about okay but there is more pathos than humour. In short Ananad Tandavam is a tele film that focuses on a fickle and an immature teen and the narration makes the audience confused too, whether they need to sit through the entire drama or leave in between.
End Credits :
Starring :Tamanna, Rishabh, Rishi, Rukmini, Charlie and Others.
Dialogues: Sashank Vennelakanti.
Cinematography: Jeevan Shankar.
Music: GV Prakash Kumar.
Producer: V. Ravi Chandran.
Direction: Gandhi Krishna.
Banner: Oscar Productions
This is a story of a teen aged girl Madhumita (Tamannah) who is fickle, confused and dependent on her parents for every decision she takes in her life. There is some innocence about her and Raghu (Rishabh) falls for this quality in her. Her parents encourage the friendship between both and fix their wedding. Just when everything seems to be going well and too soon, Tamannah drops him like a hot potato for a more educated, wealthy NRI Radhakrishna (Rishi), on her parent's advice. A heart broken Raghu moves to the USA after his father tells him that the best way to seek revenge is to better oneself and prosper in life proving detractors completely wrong. As expected Tamannah lands in the same city as Raghu and bumps into him, behaves so normally as if nothing unpleasant ever happened before.
The confusion mounts as Raghu's betrothal with Ratna (Rukmini) is announced and the former is found drawn to his ex lady love. Does Madhumita leave her husband for him, does Raghu dump Ratna for Madhumita forms the rest of the story. The film has been shot on a lavish scale, cinematography is beautiful, and Tammanah gets into the skin of her character giving credibility to her confused role.
There are a few drawbacks, the film is too lengthy, most of the characters are shown as negative in nature and sometimes the attitude of Tamannah's parents seem unrealistic. The director keeps one in a quandary throughout the film making us guess if Madhumita suffers from some traumatic history behaving the way she does.
There is a parallel plot too. The hero misunderstanding his father for having a relationship with the maid. The director again misleads you and then finally shows that the hero has been too imaginative. The director throws life also on the newly weds who have moved to USA, the unsettling lifestyle that Indians have got used to, their insecurities, compromises and the tenacity with which they hold on the indian culture despite being NRIs. The contemporary issue of blacks shooting people for a few dollars also has been shown.
Rukmini has done a neat job, Rishabh is most of the time seen with a crest fallen face, Tamannah excels but there is little hope the film will click with the masses. Dialogues are fine, music is just about okay but there is more pathos than humour. In short Ananad Tandavam is a tele film that focuses on a fickle and an immature teen and the narration makes the audience confused too, whether they need to sit through the entire drama or leave in between.
End Credits :
Starring :Tamanna, Rishabh, Rishi, Rukmini, Charlie and Others.
Dialogues: Sashank Vennelakanti.
Cinematography: Jeevan Shankar.
Music: GV Prakash Kumar.
Producer: V. Ravi Chandran.
Direction: Gandhi Krishna.
Banner: Oscar Productions
Labels: Charlie, Rishabh, Rishi, Rukmini, Tamanna, tollywood
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