Pelli Pusthakam Movie Review

Pelli Pusthakam Telugu Movie Review

Film Name:Pelli Pusthakam

 Cast: Rahul Ravindran, Niti Taylor, Bapineedu
Direction: Ramakrishna Machakanti
Genre: Family
Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Released:12-July-2013

Story: The couple is married. And it could not have been worse for the bridegroom. His wife isn't interested in him. He goes all out to woo her until he discovers there's another man in her life.

Movie Review: For such a sorry state of affairs, the man to be blamed is Satyam (Bapineedu), the family patriarch. Consanguineous marriages have been part of the family always, and Satyam has to stage a drama to get both the grand children in the family - Rahul (Rahul Ravindran) and Niti (Niti Taylor) get married. The cousins had grown up together and there were more like friends and getting married to each other was never on their mind.

It is Niti who gives word to her grandfather that she would marry Rahul, who is only too shocked at it. They get married but Rahul's woes begin immediately after as Niti tells him plainly that she had married him only to please their grandfather.

With Niti, still a college going student, clearly not interested in living a marital life, Rahul goes all out to make her realise that having got married to her, he was in love with her. He even joins her college as a lecturer.

But Niti loses her heart to another student in the college by keeping her marriage a secret. She prefers to spend time in her boyfriend's company - until she is caught on television cheering for him at a basketball game. Rahul who sees this is heart-broken. On another occasion she is accidentally captured on video with her boyfriend and her family which gets to watch it is shell-shocked.

How Rahul copes with the situation and how the joint family handles Niti's wayward behaviour forms the rest of the story.

As actors, both Rahul Ravindran and Niti Tayor slip into their tailor-made roles. The director could, however, have etched Niti's role to suit her character. Sometimes, it appears she is too young to realise what she is getting into and at other times she is projected liked she has taken a conscious decision on life matters.

Note: Let Rahul chase his wife. You can do without prying into his private life. Here's a word of caution too. Geneticists do not advise consanguineous marriages as they are likely to result in the offspring being born with congenital or genetic defects. The film promotes consanguineous marriages for `joint family sentiment' reasons.