Evaraina Epudaina

Star cast: Varun Sandesh, Vimala Raman, Ali, Gir Babu and others

Director: Marthand K Shankar

Music: Mani Sarma

Release date: 26 June 2009                                                                                                                                                

The film Evaraina Epudaina with the tagline Preamalo Padocchu is another teenage romance film. The same old story - boy meets girl, falls in love and then he does some silly and even foolish things, all in the name of love in order to win over her love.

Story:

Venkat (Varun Sandesh) is a graduate who lives with his brother and his family. Venkat does not do any work and whiles away all his time in the company of friends. He also blackmails his friends and even total strangers and extorts money from them. He comes across Madhumita (Vimala Raman) and falls for her. He gets an opportunity to befriend her when his grandmother is in hospital and Madhumita’s grandmother is also in the same hospital.

Venkat manages to make a good impression on Madhu. He however hesitates to tell her that he loves her. Just when he wants to propose to her, he wrongly believes that Madhu is being engaged to his best friend. Venkat breaks up the alliance with a wicked pln only to realize that he had made a mistake.

The rest of the story is how Venkat goes about trying to undo the damage. In the process Madhumitha even starts hating him. In the climax, all is however forgotten and forgiven.

Performance:

Varun Sandesh plays out a role of a good for nothing fellow whose only aim is to succeed in his love, by hook or by crook. Sandesh looks every bit the young and carefree college graduate he portrays. He is convincing but it is in the serious and emotional scenes that he fails completely. He needs to work hard in doing serious scenes.

Vimala Raman is okay but she does not seem to have too many expressions in her repertoire and keeps repeating the same ones again and again. She has done some hot intimate scenes without showing much inhibition. This may help her to bag a few more films.

There is nothing much for the rest of the star cast to do. The lineup of Giri Babu, Rama Prabha, Ali, Kovai Sarala, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Radha Kumari, Surekha Vani and others is used mostly in purely supporting roles. Ali and Venu Madhav try their hand at comedy. Brahmanandam makes a brief two minute guest appearance at the end.

Mani Sarma’s music is reasonably good and the songs have some fast music that will appeal to the youngsters. The production values are adequate.

The director tries to show too many things all at the same time. There is no novelty in the story and the screenplay is also a bit confusing.

The film moves in a lighthearted manner in the first half and also follows in a similar pattern for mot part of the second half too. It is only in the last 15 minutes that all the action takes place.

Evaraina Epudaina has very limited appeal – it is now up to the target audience, the college students to decide the fate of the film.