Paddanandi Premalo Mari Review

Behind the Movie PPM: Young hero Varun Sandesh teamed with good looking Vithika Sheru for this new romantic film directed by Mahsh Uppaturi. Let us see, how lovely is this flick released on this Valentine’s Day?

In the Movie PPM: Story begins with introduction of Ram (Varun Sandesh) helping one of his friends to elope with a girl. They all head towards Vijayawada, the temple city which is connected to Ram’s flashback. Here it is. 

Ram falls in love at first sight with pretty girl Sravani (Vithika Sheru). After initial scenes of mistaken identity, finally they two share the common feeling of love. Meanwhile comes in Palnadu goon Lanka Pathi, who also has an eye on Sravani and desires to marry her. 

However, Sravani distances from Ram on a simple confusion agreeing to marry her Doctor Bava residing in USA. But, a cruel Lanka Pathi attempts to kidnap Sravani from the marriage pandal. Here, Ram takes charge and promises to unite Sravani with her Bava saving them from Lanka Pathi. In due process of journey with plenty of chases, how and when Sravani realizes her misconceptions towards Ram? When did she come back to Ram is the rest.

Values of the Movie PPM: Putting it straight, Varun Sandesh is still in a big turbulence on which of kind of subjects really suit his image. PPM is one more wrong selection to accelerate his downfall. In fact, there is nothing great in screenplay, story and execution except a couple of bits like Neela Gagana Ghana Shyamudiki song and humanity based climax where hero saves the main antagonist. 

Director Mahesh completely relied on cooking PPM as a full-fledged commercial entertainer interweaved with a romantic track. In puzzlement, he automatically got trapped into the shades of ‘Okkadu, Varsham’ etc where in hero and villain love the same girl followed by chases leading to climax. Difference is Mahesh did not opt here for an action filled climax. All in all, problem lied in weak scripting and jejune direction unable to present the thought process effectively on screen. Dialogues were also shaky. 

Bharani K Dharan’s cinematography was a decent work with well captured chasing scenes, aesthetically shot marriage ritual song and visually colorful romantic track. Kuddus musical score was better in couple of songs and BGM was wobbling. Chaitanya Krishna lyrics had a definite value. Praveen K Pudi editing was again a mediocre work. Production values of Nallapati Ramchandra Prasad and Panchajanya Media are above average.

On performance scale, Varun Sandesh fared far better than his past debacles. He danced aggressively (still more grace was needed), fought heavy with lanky personality and was trying to perk up on emotions. Vithika Sheru looked beautiful in some of the blocks. She did well in crucial episodes. Then the main villain and the artist who did as Bava to heroine were fine to an extent. Thagubothu Ramesh as Samosa Saththi did not evoke any laughter. Of the rest, Kasi Vishwanath, Raksha, Posani, Pruthvi and others struck to their portions.

Out of the Movie PPM: For a totally flop stricken Varun Sandesh, this isn’t going to provide much of respite. At the same time, definitely PPM is not as bad as a movie compared to his last few disasters. Vithika Sheru gave nod for a couple of lip kisses and her efforts may not go useless. There was a multiple tested minimum guarantee story on hand. Unfortunately, director Mahesh missed to add enough of treatment with emotional connectivity and his under-grown direction skills left the final product unfinished. 

First half was a bit dragged with a conventional interval block. Second half ran at a better pace with easily guess-able twists and turns. Commercially when there is Junior NTR ‘Temper’ batting in middle, can there be any bowlers for PPM? Even then, let us wait and see?

Cinejosh Verdict of PPM: Varun Sandesh Improved.

                                                      Cinejosh Rating: 2.25/5

                                                                             Reviewed by Srivaas