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Gopi Gopika Godhavari
Cast: Venu, Kamalini Mukherji, Krishna Bhagavan, Kondavalasa, Jeeva, Kalyan, Jayalalitha, Geethanjali, Sana and others
Direction:Vamsi
Production:Ramesh Valluri
Music:Chakri
Release Date : July 10th 2009
Story : Gopika
(Kamalini Mukherjee) is a doctor who runs a mobile boat clinic in
Polavaram. She stays with her mother Jayalalitha. A young doctor
from the US comes to meet her and he also wants to start a mobile
boat clinic like her in Srisailam. He also likes Gopika at first
sight and proposes to marry her
Gopika says that marriage is not on her mind at
that time and when she thinks of marriage, she will think about him
first. Gopi (Venu) is a singer and he runs a orchestra. He finds a
cell phone in a telephone both and gets a call from Gopika. The
phone belongs to Gopika's best friend. She has committed suicide
after a failed love affair.
Gopi helps the girl's father with the last rites and this impresses
Gopika very much. Gopi and Gopika talks over phone every day and
they slowly fall in love. They plan to meet in Hyderabad but Gopi is
mistaken as a communist as he is wearing a red shirt and is locked
up in police station for taking part in a protest rally.
Gopi then plans to meet Gopika in Polavaram. He sets out from
Bhadrachalam but is attacked by some robbers. They steal his bag and
hit him on his head teeth sticks and throw him into the river
Godavari. Gopika is upset as Gopi fails to turn up in Polvaram as
promised. Gopi later surfaces at Polavaram in a unconscious stage on
the river bed. Gopika and her team bring the man to the mobile boat
clinic to treat him.
Gopi looses memory due to the injuries on his head. Gopika still
waits for Gopi to turn up. She does not know that the man she
rescued and is treating is actually Gopi. Gopika's mother then asks
her daughter to forget Gopi and marry the young doctor as Gopi is
now presumed dead.
Gopika agrees and the marriage is finalized. Just before the
marriage is performed, some goons once again attacks Gopi and hit
him on the head. The injuries make Gopi to recollect his past. Sadly
Gopi realizes that it is too late and he does not reveal his real
identity to Gopika. Gopi's blind mother learns about the truth and
she tells everyone the truth and the film finally ends with Gopi and
Gopika coming together
Performance:
Kamalini Mukherjee plays the kind hearted doctor quite
well. She in a way continues her doctor act from Gamyam. Kamalini
looks good and she does justice to her role.
Venu plays as a singer and he is okay in his role.
For a change, Venu does not go all out as a comic hero but plays a
much serious role. Venu also carries his role with dignity
Geetnajali as Venu's blind mother is okay.
Jayalalitha plays Kamalini's mother and she goes about her job as
per the requirements of the script. Krishna Bhagawan tries to evoke
some laughter but fails. Sana and others are okay.
Music is okay. The film has been set against the
Godavari backdrop but the director does not capture the beauty of
the river and the villages fully. Except for the comedy track
between the compounder and a boatman over a box of stolen medicines,
there is not much comedy
The first half of the film moves at a snail's pace and the comedy is
also very dull. It is only in the second half that the film gathers
some speed. The last half an hour or so is interesting
Gopi Gopika Godavari is not one of the best films of Vamsi.
The film fails to live up to the expectations of the audience.
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