Concept based film Dear Uma starring Sumaya Reddy, Pruthvi Ambaar under the direction of Sai Rajesh Mahadev is releasing on 18 April 2025. Let us see what Dear Uma offered to movie lovers.
Dear Uma story revolves around a youngster whose life changes after coming across a beautiful girl and how he deals with the startling developments thereafter.
Dev (Pruthvi Ambaar Dev) always faces rejection and faces ' Get Out' board but his life changes completely when he meets beautiful Dr Uma (Sumaya Reddy).
As days progress, he comes to know startling secrets about Uma. What role Dev's brother Surya (Kamal Kamaraju) Where this leads to form rest of the narration.
Pruthvi Ambar played the role of the youngster who faces many rejections and who falls in love and goes to any extent to realise his lover's dream even after knowing her startling truth. He showed good body language and emoted well in the scenes. His dialogue delivery is good.
Sumaya Reddy made an impression on the screen. She looked youthful and bubbly on the screen and also showed the pain and grief along with the concern in her eyes while taking care of the patients as the doctor and also while seeing the poor. She delivered dialogues with ease and emoted and expressed well on the screen slipping into the role effortlessly.
Kamal Kamaraju looked good on the screen. He looked smart and showed variations according to his role taking the story forward.
Sapthagiri evoked a few laughs. Rajeev Kanakala performed well in the role of the heroine's supportive father. He showed good body langauge and his dialogue delivery is intact. The scenes involving Rajeev Kanakala and Pruthvi Aamber takes the film to another level. Aamani appeared in a small role and she is fine.
Ajay Ghosh is fine in the role tailormade for him and others like Prudhvi Raj, Kedar Shankar,Rupa Lakshmi performed according to their roles.
Dear Uma story is penned by heroine cum producer Sumaya Reddy. She should be complimented for donning multiple hats. Everyone knows that it is difficult to mange the film schedules as the producer and also writing a story and sticking to the concept without bucking under pressure of making changes and to the top of it, donning the female lead role and impressing all requires lot of guts and talent.
Sumaya Reddy's story of Dear Uma comes with a message highlighting the loopholes in the medical and healthcare sector and how corporate hospitals are taking innocent people and patients for a ride prescribing unnecessary tests. Director Sai Rajesh Mahadev started the narration in an interesting manner and the then quickly concentrates on the youthful angle. The romantic angle looks ok but it impacted the flow of the narration and the tempo as he tried to entertain viewers with the comedy track also inbetween. Only ahead of the interval, the narration picks up pace and the first half ends setting the tempo for the second half.
The second half turns out to be more racy compared to the first half and includes touching and emotional scenes and it connects chords with the viewers with hard hitting and impactful dialouges. At times however, they turned silly and illogical. Few more interesting and impactful scenes would hae added value to the narration.
Radhan's songs are situational. They are shot in a colrful manner. His made an impression with the background music. The cinematography of Raj Thota is good. He gave a realistic feel to the proceedings with the use of the camera angles anc color mixing and made the film visually appealing on the screen. The editing of Satya Giduturi is ok but could have been better as there are many scenes and unnecessary elements that slowed the tempo and impacted the flow of the narration.
Dialogues are emotional and during the pre climax and climax are hard hitting sending a strong message to the society. Production values of Suma Chitra Arts are good.
Altogether, Dear Uma turns out to be message-oriented romantic drama with a medical backdrop. Sumaya Reddy's story reminds one of many earlier films which exposed the inside happenings of the greedy doctors and corporate hospitals but she added few elements to surprise all. She also came up with an impactful and touching performance and the director Sai Rajesh Mahadev made justice to the story getting good output from the technical crew. Little finetuning of the script and a racy screenplay along with few more interesting scenes would have packed punch to the final result. Considering all these elements, Cinejosh goes with a 2.5 rating for Dear Uma.