SMS 6260 Kannada Movie

Mar 6, 2007 By RGV

Film Journalist Sundeep Malani's first foray into film direction has met with considerable success. Though the film titled as SMS 6260 made in a shoe string budget has nothing to showcase in terms of technical excellence or grandeur, the film is able to convey some of the problems confronting today's younger generation. It also raises some pertinent questions about the attitude of the younger lot as opposed to the elders and the misuse of mobile phones and relative collateral consequences.

To be fair to Malani, it is to be said that he has utilized all the available resources to his advantage. Though the film is a dragger in the beginning, the tempo picks up in the second half when the story moves in a faster pace.

The film revolves around a call centre employee Janu who falls for a rich and spoilt Roshan. They get closer to the extent of having an affair of pre marital sex. Then Roshan tries to avoid Janu, but later many other characters in the film who have different backgrounds and who speak different language try to bring some solution to Janu's problems. Meanwhile, they also add a little oomph to the glamorous side and a little bit of comedy to the proceedings of the film. Then there is some hilarious sequences featuring the experienced Dattanna and Jayalakshmi, a happy go lucky married couple who pull each others legs at the slightest pretext.

SMS 6260 has everything that the page 3 segment of the modern Karnataka represents. The IT sector, Software professionals, call centre employees, the disco culture, the campus life, SMS, MMS and E mail messages, the Pizza huts and the Coffee days and all that. In that way it is contrasting to the recently released 'Duniya' which was made on people living in the edge in slum areas and the underworld elements.

Janu has given a good performance in the film. Diganth plays the role of Casanova has justified his selection. Dattanna and Jayalakshmi as already said are good.

Technically the film is certainly not above class. Totally SMS 6260 can be a film for the new generation, though qualitatively it could have been improvised.