Manorama                                                

 

Punchline: film on humanism
Genre: Thriller
Type: Straight
Banner: Zee Motion Pictures

Cast: Charmme, Nishan, Dhanush, Pradeep, Lahari, Master Sai Kumar, Srivastav, Sridhar Rao, Ali, MS Narayana, Sudeepa, Narsing Yadav etc

Music: Koti
Cinematography: Jagan JRJ
Editing: Marthand k Venkatesh
Story - dialogues: Padmasri
Screenplay - direction: V Eeswar Reddy
Producer: P Goenka
Release date: 27 March 2009

 Story

Manorama chat bhandar is a popular hangout place for Hyderabadis in Koti area. Geetanjali (Charmme) stays at an apartment that is just opposite to Manorama chat place. A stranger arrives at Manorama chat and plants his bag containing a time bomb. The bomb is supposed to blast at 1 pm and it fails to do so. There are chances that it may go off at any point of time. That is when that stranger sees Geetanjali at chat bhandar and develop soft corner for her. The rest of the story is all about the bomb and the relationship between the stranger and Geetanjali.  

Analysis :

 

First half of the film is nice. The second half drags. The plus points are plot idea and humanism. The negative points are slow second half and excessive preaching. It is a risky proposition to make a film with limited locations and with an idealistic story with hours of time-frame. Producer should be appreciated for it. On a whole, Manorama is not a bad film though a better handling of script would have made the film more interesting.

 

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