Rehash that comedy fails to redeem

Movie Review

Film: "Oka Pellam Muddu, Rendo Pellam Vodu"; Director: K.V. Ramana; Producer:

D.S. Rao; Saikrishna Productions; Music: 'Vandemtaram' Srinivas; Cast:

Rajendraprasad, Raasi, Gurlin, Sunil, Brahmandam and Bharani.

Veteran actor Rajendrarprasad holds your interest with his impeccable comic

timing in "Oka Pellam Muddu, Rendo Pellam Vodu". Unfortunately, director K.V.

Ramana fails to provide him with a sensible plot to make it a winner. The film

is just a rehash of "Subalagnam" with peripheral changes.

The agony of a middle-class housewife, Aamani, who dreams of becoming rich by

even trading her husband, is missing in the new version. This makes the

character of Raasi a mere caricature of the original. She looks good in bits and

parts, while Gurlin is wasted in a skin-revealing role.

Even the comedy of Sunil and Brahmandam is highly contrived. The tunes of

'Vandemataram' sound repetitive.

The story goes like this: Rajendraprasad lives happily with his wife (Raasi) and

their child in a middle-class colony. But the wife dreams of making it rich by

hook or crook. This leads her into serious trouble. Through tortuous

developments, she ends up a servant of the second wife (Gurlin) that her husband

is forced to acquire. The happy ending comes with both the wives giving birth to

baby girls and deciding to live together.

The film does not live up to the promise of the publicity preceding its release.