Boss - I Love You Telugu Movie

Sep 28, 2006 By Kishore

The elegance of Nagarjuna combined with the freshness of the lissome Nayanthara act as props to reasonably creditable performance and present a strong case for “Boss” to be rated as a good one. On the other hand the slow second half and the predictable yet pitifully dragging last 20 minutes strongly pegs it to just an above average movie.

Yet it is an enjoyable fare. A Mills and Boons type romance, flavored with the charm of Nagarjuna, will find a lot of females making it a point to watch Boss despite the shortcomings in the movie. Not to speak of the thousands of Bosses and their personal secretaries who would definitely try to justify their peccadilloes. But the movie is strictly not about meaningless affairs; rather it’s about love that seeks to metamorphose into a life long enduring relationship only to be met with stiff resistance.

Boss is the story of a real estate baron Gopal Krishna (Nagarjuna) who is a sort of a paradox: honest in his dealings and yet rolls in cash. He hires Anuradha (Nayanthara), a girl with a heart for social service as his personal secretary. Anuradha is raised in an orphanage run by Chandra Mohan. She finds herself swathed in luxury now. A posh flat to stay, a chauffeured car and the proximity to the head honcho make her grow up in stature. Yet her head is perfectly screwed and she is well poised. But she cannot prevent herself from falling head over heels for the debonair boss.

While the boss is busy lavishing the secretary with praises and expensive gifts he is oblivious to the fact that she is in love with him. Nayanthara takes a wee bit long time to express her love for him. In the meanwhile an incident results in the clash of the egos of the boss and the secretary. The self-respecting secretary decides to quit and tenders her resignation letter. The boss in true M and B type asks for one month’s time. He hires another secretary (Poonam Bajwa) to add insult to injury. That’s just a part of the story.

The sad thing is that the rest of the story is very predictable. That’s what takes the gloss off the movie. Shreya makes a special appearance as the deceased wife of Nagarjuna. She is killed in Tsunami, mercifully not in a car accident. While V N Aditya can hog the credit for that he will find it difficult to answer some uneasy questions like: how come that Nayanthara who works as secretary knows everything except Nag’s past married life? Logically the topic should crop up sometime during office gupshups and the secretary aware of it.

The jokes are infantile. And how many times the average film buff has not seen the hero stopping the heroine from getting married to someone else?

Sorry, the director let go of a chance of a lifetime to cash on the flamboyance of Nagarjuna. He is guilty of losing grip in the second half. The movie should have stopped when it still continued and thankfully stopped finally after dragging for nearly 20 minutes.

All said and done, Boss is a treat for Nagarjuna fans. The first half of the movie is enjoyable and having known about the second half from us you can watch the movie without any disappointment.