Assessment: Mohan Krishna Indraganti writes an ode to cinema and love with Aa Ammayi Gurinchi Meeku Cheppali (AAGMC). And that’s about the place the movie’s similarities to Sammohanam finish as a result of the director ensures to let you know an entire new story this time round. It’s a special factor that the narrative options some tried-and-tested tropes. Whereas the movie begins off shakily, leaving you scratching your head and questioning the place he intends to take this story, the whole lot is smart by the point the tip credit roll round.
Naveen (Sudheer Babu) has scored six back-to-back hits in six years with industrial movies, certainly one of which is hilarious titled ‘Kasak’. Whereas his films would possibly rake in large numbers on the field workplace, he typically faces the ire of critics, together with his co-director Bose (Vennela Kishore) and pal, author Venkataramana (Rahul Ramakrishna). Naveen probabilities upon a reel that includes a good looking woman (Krithi Shetty) at some point and he’s mesmerised. He’s all of a sudden not excited about following the identical previous punch dialogues-special numbers-fights-et al formulation he used to. Monitoring down the woman within the reel would possibly simply find yourself giving him one thing rather more than he anticipated.
Plenty of movies normally endure from the ‘second half syndrome’ whereby a director will get so enthusiastic in revealing a lot that the pay-off pales as compared. With AAGMC, it’s the opposite manner round. Mohan takes his personal candy time organising Naveen’s life and exhibiting us how Dr Alekhya (Krithi Shetty) and her household detest movies, even when we don’t know the rationale why. There are additionally conversations revolving round artwork – if it’s solely price it when it offers the artist fame and cash, an ill-placed particular quantity that the director tries to make a degree with and fails, scenes that includes gold-hearted producers and even the pitfalls in a movie trade that’s thought-about oh-so-glamorous. There are a couple of glimpses nonetheless of how all the characters he’s organising are actual, flawed, most significantly – human.
But it surely’s the pre-interval the place a twist is revealed, that the movie actually kicks into focus. Naveen goes from behaving like a masala hero to a compassionate particular person. The movie’s tone additionally modifications with him, kudos to Mohan for making it refined somewhat than jarring. As a result of the movie’s music (by Vivek Sagar) additionally goes from numbers that sound standard to one thing lovely like Kotha Kotha Ga. Dr Alekhya’s hesitation and her father’s (Srikanth Iyengar) ire all of a sudden make a lot sense. Mohan does an excellent job particularly of fleshing out her mother and father’ characters. It’s an odd dichotomy to be the mother and father of a lady, he appears to say. You’re so busy defending her from the world, you neglect to be proud. The director additionally deserves appreciation for dealing with sure social matters with sensitivity as a substitute of going over-the-top.
Sudheer Babu, Krithi Shetty and Srikanth Iyengar carry the movie on their in a position shoulders, delivering performances that mature because the layers of their characters are peeled again. Vennela Kishore is a delight, so are Rahul Ramakrishna and Srinivas Avasarala. Remainder of the forged additionally does an excellent job. AAGMC shouldn’t be an ideal movie by any means as a result of there are scenes you want would’ve been written higher and conversations that delve deeper. But it surely finally ends up doing what Mohan meant it to be – a love letter to cinema and even a peek behind why sure issues operate the best way they do within the movie trade. Watch it this weekend when you don’t thoughts a movie that slowly unfurls.
