Rama Banam starring Gopichand and Dimple Hayathi as the lead pair under the direction of Sriwass has hit the screens today. Let’s see how it fares.
Story: Vicky (Gopichand) leaves for Kolkata after a conflict with his brother Rajaram (Jagapathi Babu) in childhood. He becomes a Bhai there and falls in love with Bhairavi (Dimple Hayathi). Vicky comes back to his home and finds out that his brother has a threat from GK (Tarun Arora). What’s the rivalry between GK and Rajaram? What did Vicky do next, forms the crucial crux.
Performances: Gopichand is dapper in songs and he is so fierce in action sequences. He is perfect in the given role.
Jagapathi Babu outshines Gopichand in the emotional scenes. Dimple Hayathi is glamorous on the screen and shw is good with her limited role . Though her scenes are very few in this film, she gives her best.
Get-up Srinu, Satya, Vennela Kishore and Ali helped the film big time with their well and perfect comedy timing. Khushboo is also fine in her role.
The emotional scenes, interval sequence, and a couple of songs are passable on the screen.
Technicalities: Director, Sriwass gives his best but he should have taken better care of the story.
An engaging story could have been written by Bhupathi Raja. Madhusudhan Padamati and Abburi Ravi worked together and wrote good dialogues that will please mass audiences for the core.
The cinematography by Vetri is fine. Mickey J Meyer’s music is fine. Editing work Fails to register as many scenes, especially in the second half, needed to be trimmed.
Production values are so lavish for this family entertainer and so is the case with the production design.
Analysis: Rama Banam starts off interesting but quickly follows a very routine path that we’ve seen in the previous decade. Few comedy scenes work but the rest is more irritating than funny and gives us feel of watching a completely outdated commercial entertainer that is predictable to the core.
To summerize, a few comedy scenes are ok and a few songs are decent but other than that nothing other are worth mentioning. Reminds us of films in the last decade. Hard to sit through the finally portions.
Verdict: Routine commercial drama!
Rating: 2/5
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