A Aa E Ee - Weak Coemdy

Starring: Srikanth, Meera Jasmine, Sada and others

Director: Sreenivas Reddy

Music: MM Srilekha

Release date: 06 November, 2009

Director Sreenivas Reddy is known for his clean and rib tickling comic entertainers. This time however he has changed tracks and comes up with a sentiment cum murder mystery. Let us see how far he has succeeded in his attempt.

Story:

Srikanth works as a cab driver. He is married to Meera Jasmine and they love each other very much. The only thing lacking in their life is that they do not have children. One day Meera becomes pregnant. Even before the god news can sink in, Srikanth learns that his wife is suffering from a heart ailment and needs to undergo surgery in order to save not just her life but also of the child in the womb.

Srikanth tries to raise 10 lakhs needed for the surgery but does not succeed. At this time he finds a bag containing 10 lakhs cash near the railway tracks. There is also a dead body lying on the tracks and the bag obviously belongs to the dead woman. Srikanth takes the bag to the police station and hands it over to the inspector.

Srikanth’s friend lawyer Krishna Bhagawan forces Srikanth to lie that the dead woman is his wife so that he can claim the 10 lakhs and use it for his wife’s operation. Srikanth does as told by Krishna Bhagwan. He however lands in a soup as the woman who has died on the track (Sada) comes back and now Srikanth is forced to act like her husband.

Meera thinks that her husband is a cheat and that he is living with Sada. It is now up to Srikanth to wriggle himself out of this whole mess. How he does it is the remaining part of the story.

Performance:

Srikanth does a neat job as the caring husband of Meera Jasmine and also as Sada’s husband. Srikant also gets a chance to bash up some goons even though his role is that of a soft natured guy.

Meera Jasmine fits the bill of Srikanth’s loving wife perfectly.  Sada sizzles in a brief role. There are more than half a dozen comedians from Brahmanandam to Ali, Sunil, MS Narayana, Raghu Babu, Kovail Sarala etc. However the comedy is crude. It is only Ali as a memory loss patient who manages to raise some laughs.

Analysis:

 The music is ok. The film starts very slowly and picks up momentum only towards the interval. Post-interval the film slowly grinds its way to the predictable climax.

. For those who go to watch the film hoping it to be a rib tickling comic entertainer will be disappointed as it is more like a murder mystery with some weak comedy thrown here and there.

A Aa E Ee is a below average film.