Evaraina Epudaina                                            

 

Banner : AVM Productions
 

Cast : Varun Sandesh, Vimala Raman, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Giribabu, Ali, Venu Madhav, Vizag Prasad, Sampath, Chandrasekhar, Adarsh, Bharath Reddy, Ramaprabha, Radhakumari, Telangana Shakunthala, Anuhasan, Kovai Sarala, Surekha Vani, Pavala Shyamala and others
 

Direction : Marthand K Shankar
Production : M Saravanan, MS Guhan, Aruna Guhan, Aparna Guhan
Music : Manisharma

 

Release Date :  June 26th 2009


 

Evaraina Eppudaina has all the signs of becoming Varun Sandesh’s third successive hit after Happy Days & Kotha Bangaru Lokam. Like his earlier movies, it has the right ingredients of a decent storyline with enough twists, good clean comedy, catchy songs and the tried test love-story as the base. This movie will definitely appeal to the college crowd while also pulling in the family audiences.

 

Story : 

Venkat (Varun Sandesh) is a graduate who lives with his brother and his family. Venkat does not do any work and whiles away all his time in the company of friends. He also blackmails his friends and even total strangers and extorts money from them. He comes across Madhumita (Vimala Raman) and falls for her. He gets an opportunity to befriend her when his grandmother is in hospital and Madhumita’s grandmother is also in the same hospital.

 

Venkat manages to make a good impression on Madhu. He however hesitates to tell her that he loves her. Just when he wants to propose to her, he wrongly believes that Madhu is being engaged to his best friend. Venkat breaks up the alliance with a wicked pln only to realize that he had made a mistake. Venkat's friend was getting engaged to Madhu's elder sister and not Madhu.

 

The rest of the story is how Venkat goes about trying to undo the damage. In the process Madhumitha even starts hating him. In the climax, all is however forgotten and forgiven.

What is it about :

 

Venkat (Varun) is introduced as a self-centered, street-smart youngster who believes in “living for himself”. This philosophy changes as soon as he sets his eyes on Madhu (Vimla Raman) who is quite mature as a philanthropist who runs an old-age home. Varun woos her with total enthusiasm resulting in a lot of comic situations. Soon, due to his misunderstanding of a situation concerning Madhu’s sister, he ends up creating a conflict within Madhu’s family. The second half of the movie is all about trying to set things right while trying to win Madhu’s heart and also set right the villains who have their eyes on the old-age home land. In a slightly overdrawn and overdue climax, everything falls into place with everyone living happily ever after.
 

 

What is Good:

 

The best part of the film is the high entertainment value it provides. The first half is quite fast-paced with Varun providing quite a few laughs with his one-liners and comic acts. The film belongs to him and he pulls it through with his enthusiasm. He is well-supported by the rest of the cast including Vimla and Ali. The songs are pleasant and well-paced across the film while the fight scenes are kept at a minimum. The comedy is clean without resorting to double meaning dialogues.
 

 

What is bad:

 

If the last 30 minutes in the movie had been trimmed and the loose ends tied up quicker, it would have helped since the audience got a bit restless at that point. The lead pair seemed mismatched with Vimla looking much older in contrast to Varun’s boyish looks. The villainous sub-plot seemed forced into the script with Kota Srinivas Rao getting wasted in an ill-sketched role.
Me Thinks: Evaraina Eppudaina will definitely click with the audiences since it is a good timepass flick that will appeal across diverse audiences.
 

 

Tailpiece :

 

Watching the scrawny Varun single-handedly beating up a bunch of rowdies is hilarious esp. when he sends them flying across the room with his punches & kicks. He definitely needs a lot of muscles before his next release if he wants to look convincing!!!

 

Performance :

 

Varun Sandesh plays out a role of a good for nothing fellow whose only aim is to succeed in his love, by hook or by crook. Sandesh looks every bit the young and carefree college graduate he portrays. He is convincing but it is in the serious and emotional scenes that he fails completely. He needs to work hard in doing serious scenes.

 

Vimala Raman is okay but she does not seem to have too many expressions in her repertoire and keeps repeating the same ones again and again. She has done some hot intimate scenes without showing much inhibition. This may help her to bag a few more films.

 

There is nothing much for the rest of the star cast to do. The lineup of Giri Babu, Rama Prabha, Ali, Kovai Sarala, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Radha Kumari, Surekha Vani and others is used mostly in purely supporting roles. Ali and Venu Madhav try their hand at comedy. Brahmanandam makes a brief two minute guest appearance at the end.

 

Mani Sarma’s music is reasonably good and the songs have some fast music that will appeal to the youngsters. The production values are adequate.

 

The director tries to show too many things all at the same time. There is no novelty in the story and the screenplay is also a bit confusing.

 

The film moves in a lighthearted manner in the first half and also follows in a similar pattern for mot part of the second half too. It is only in the last 15 minutes that all the action takes place.

 

Evaraina Epudaina has very limited appeal – it is now up to the target audience, the college students to decide the fate of the film.

 

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