Film: Prema Oka Maikam
Starring: Charmi,Saranya,Rahul
Director: Chandu
Producer: Venkata Suresh and Srikanth Surya
Banner: Touring Talkies
Music: MGK Praveen,S.R.Posam
Story
Mallika (Charmee) is a call girl, who
makes an accident with her car in a drunk state dashing 1 writer
Lalith(Rahul) after which she joins the latter in a hospital with the
help of her friend Vamshi (Rao Ramesh). Lalith loses his eye sight and
Mallika takes him to her home and digs deep into his life with which he
reveals about his story about a singer Swathi and his love. Rest of the
story concludes with Mallika helping for Lalith’s love.
Performances
Filmmakers have projected this as Charmi’s
woman-centric film but she had hardly scope for any role. She looked
good in the two songs. Her own dubbing didn’t work in anyway.
Rahul and Saranya fails
to grab the audiences interest with their bad acting. Despite
performance scope character as a blind, Rahul fails to impress.
Rao Ramesh, Chandra Mohan are wasted, Thagubothu Ramesh provides some comic relief, Ravi Babu, Surekha Vani filled the screens.
Technical Analysis
Music by Praveen and Posham is pretty
mediocre. Awachamaina has good lyrics but the misplacement of song tests
the viewers patience. Re-recording is okay in parts. Cinematography is
nothing to boast of, Editing is pathetic. Production Values are poor.
Analysis
Charmi looked beautiful in the film and
she has got good screen presence but her role is limited and she just
stays for first half an hour wrapping up her two songs and will appear
only in the climax. Charmi’s role looked like an extended cameo. Prema
Oka Maikam fails miserably in narration and presentation. Dialogues lack
depth and look forcible; screenplay is inconsistent and quite
predictable. Direction is pretty poor and one hour into the film, the
plot goes off track highlighting supporting characterizations essayed by
amateur actors. The film doesn’t provide any thrilling moments instead
reminds us of many other films including the recent release Pavitra,
Nuvvu Vastavani et al. The climax scenes are highly predictable and
lacks interest.