Now, back home, Arjun's best friend Kiran (Anup) is engaged to be married to a girl, who, it turns out, is Sujatha. They fall in love, but part ways again, not knowing where each other has gone (let's say we are all a bit tired of trying not to imagine two young people on the throes of an affair, not exchange phone numbers).
One day a TV channel captures the good work he's doing, and people in Hyderabad watch the show, and his life gets complicated - goons start attempting to kill him, which, yes, leads to the flashback.Īrjun (Raja) and Sujatha (Ishana) meet while on their respective vacations at their village. Keka starts in Kolkata (where else do runaway Telugu heroes run away to?), where Arjun teaches music at a home for street children. This film looks like the effort of someone with cotton-wool stuffed in the space between their ears, anyway. And what do they have to show for it? Like we said, we could not (and would definitely not!) put our finger on it, but sore throat for the audiences would not be far off the mark. Keka, they screamed, would be another block-buster. Hopefully, the heroine really hammed and she was not trying to make fun of other heroines. Hopefully, the emotional confrontations were meant to be serious and not a spoof of cliched scenes in films. Hopefully, the script-bumbling was not intentional. Raasi dubbed for the heroine and Ajay dubbed for the second lead Anup.We don't know what exactly Keka intended to be, but hopefully, laughing at itself was not on its agenda. Trivia: The main lead of the film, Raja is Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry's son. And can a doctor's stethoscope transmit sound through soundproof glass? Wonder what their reaction was, especially after hearing the groans and moans of the audience. Tailpiece: The film's lead actors, lyricist Sirivennela Sitarama Sastri gaaru and a lot of others were there in the theatre. Might not find favor in the interiors too. Teja really needs to sit down and reinvent himself or atleast decide to let others handle a few departments like story, screenplay etc so that he can come out with a fresh film. The editing should have been far crisper and more than half of Kannamba's scenes could have been chopped off with minimal impact. The concert by the orphanage kids is very old world and cliched. Too many unnecessary scenes in the second half make it a strenuous watch. Teja needed to rein in his actors and make them give restrained performances, but he really lets them go over the top in a lot of scenes. Apart from the lead actors in the film, not one performance in the film impresses and a few scenes stretch beyond tolerance. While it is a good idea to introduce newcomers to the field, you also have to make sure you introduce some good ones. The rewind technique used in the song Adigaava Maatainaa is impressive. A few scenes evoke laughter, but they are stretched for too long. Teja's direction and screenplay go haywire in the second half. What is Good: The visuals in the first half hour are good and the performances by the main leads, Raja, Ishani and Anup are decent. How the lives of these three characters are intertwined and how the knots are resolved forms the crux of the plot. Meanwhile, there is an attack on Arjun in Kolkata. She immediately calls Kiran (Anup) and asks him to bring Arjun back for her. The practice is recorded by a local TV channel and it is seen by Sujatha (Ishani) on TV in Hyderabad. He is teaching the kids in the orphanage music, so that they can perform in a show and get funding for their orphanage. What is it about: Arjun (Raja) turns up at an orphanage in Kolkata.
Keka, his latest offering, with PC Sreeram's much hyped cinematography is yet another attempt by Teja to tell a love story with a twist, but it does not gel well on the whole. He keeps trying to pour his old wine into newer and better bottles all the time, but it does not really help. And there are only so many love stories he can make.
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