Film: Romance
Starring: Prince ,Dimple , Manasa
Director: Darling Swami
Producer: G. Srinivasa Rao, SKN
Banner: Good Cinema Group
Music: Sai Karthik
Story takes off with Krishna (Prince)
narrating his story. He is a graduation student who is in search of his
soulmate with some restrictions like a virgin girl and doesn’t believe
in pre-marital sex. He comes across two women in which he wants to
select a better character girl. He sees Lalitha aka Lola(Manasa) and
gets attracted to her. He becomes close to Lola but later opines she is
not right for him and ditches her for another girl Anuradha(Dimple). By
the times, he feels Anuradha is the better girl for him the former
starts on a mission to test Krishna back. What happens next forms the
rest.
Performances
Prince is charming while his performance was good. But it’s better for the young lad to choose the scripts with care.
Dimple Chopade can
barely act but has the sex appeal which she did her bit. Manasa was
decent in her performances but lookswise she hasn’t scored much.
Sai as Bluetooth bobby, Venu Madhav brings few smiles here and there while others were there to fill the space.
Technical Analysis
Cinematography has nothing to boast of
while the editing is jerky. Swamy not only fails as director but his
dialogues also fail to impress. A couple of songs are good while the
background score is pretty mediocre. Production values are standard.
Analysis
The story is wafer-thin, neither the
screenplay is impressive. The humor elements hardly impress and the
dialogues are unattractive and looked c-grade. Swamy fails in his
direction. Maruthi’s earlier films Ee Rojullo, Bus Stop though had adult
comedy and double-entendre dialogues, the films have done well due to
its plot and youth appeal, but Romance neither has a plot nor comedy but
it’s packed with disgusting and sleazy content like guy testing girl’s
virginity and character while the girl ends up testing a guy in girl’s
hostel. Such scenes test the audiences patience. It’s not the romance,
not the love story but plain trash. The title is misleading giving the
impression of youthful love entertainer, but it’s totally crap with lust
factor and double-entendre as main theme. The film has managed to
create good hype with its title and promotions, but the makers fail to
reach the hype.