Ye Maaya chesaave review

“Ye Maaya Chesaavey”..The title with poetic feel is making rounds for quite some days..As this is Goutam Menon Directorial and also boasts of music by ARRahman.It is a second movie of Nagachaitanya too. Music being already a chart-buster, expectations piled up on the movie. This made me go for it in spite of heavy snow last night.

Did the magic worked as the title suggests..

Story:

Karthik (A fresh mechanical Engineer) aspires to become a movie director. It’s a Love at first sight for him when he see’s Jessie.As the fate would have it, these couple has lots of barriers .They are of different religion, different mother tongue and added to it Jessie is two years elder than Karthik.Morover Jessies father thinks making movies is a mean job.

Amidst these many dissimilarities ,Did they unite at the end or not? Is all the movie about.

Movie also talks about simple guy who is straightforward, seeking a hand of girl with complex mind.

Actors :

NagaChaitanya as Karthik is excellent.While he was killed with heavy characterization in josh,This movie offered him quite a simple character of his age.He came up with brilliant performance combined with ease.He has improved a lot in his histrionics. But he has lot of scope to better himself in dances.He is just better than his dad in that aspect.There were many close shots and he passed the litmus test easily.He should remain doing lover boy roles for quite some time as his boyish looks suit them more.surely he is in the race now.

Samantha,she scores full with her debut.She is very beautiful in the movie. The husky voice given to her added to it (reminds you of Voice of gopika in autograph).Also she is brilliant in acting department .Her expressions are natural and she lived in the character of a complex women. She looks like kamilini in some angles. The costumes given to her are very nice and simple .Gautham always portrays his heroines in such an aesthetic manner(reema in cheli,Asin in Garshana etc).Previously we had Bapu and viswanath show their heroines brilliantly . And now I feel Gautham,Sekhar kammula Krishnavamsi etc are few who are good in that.

Krishnudu as friend of hero is very good and provided great relief if not movie would be more a dull movie than it is now.

Sanjay swaroop(husband of manjula(mahesh’s sister)) did the role of hero’s father.Devan acted as heroines father.

Technical Departments:

Goutam Menon was very natural in each and every scene with no melodrama.Screen Play flows from scene to scene as we see some story going in our neighbourhood.Fresh faces he has chosen for the script made a nice impact.

Music by ARRehman stands out in the entire crew.He is at his best yet again.Songs are still more colorful in picturization.Background score carries the mood.

Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa is top-notch.Locations captured in Kerala are simply superb.It’s even quite joy when we see all the places around Newjersey on the silver screen .

Production values of Indira Productions are excellent.

Analysis:

But there are few things that are not in sync

As of story, there is nothing new that is offered. I myself remember watching lots of these kind of stories right from my childhood (From Sitakokachilaka starring Karthik and aruna,Bombay etc etc).But a minor difference is attributed to it by strong technical team that worked in the back.

Movie as of can be divided into two halves where first is good and second is bad.

While the first half just moves on with some lighter moments,good songs,Comedy bits by Krishnudu here and there.

But you need to pay for it in the later part.Very slow narration post interval really tests our patience.Audience already came across several similar love stories so far with the first half almost the same which we saw before and they do expect some promising second half .Added to it heroines complex nature annoys us and it reaches peak at one point.

The director dissapoints with no great climax and i feel it ended up in a same lines of dil raju's recent movie.Somehow he managed a bit at the end to see the smiling faces on the crowd.

Final word:

Firstly it’s not a must watch as many websites suggest. Movie definitely deserves big round applause for the technical aspects and nice performances by the lead.But the dull second half brings us down for sure.

Do watch it only in group or with your better partner if you have nothing else to do.Or you can watch it even if you admire Goutam Menon and ARRehman.But still I am not in agreement that movie is great as such.

Tidbits:

Working title of the movie is ‘Jessie’(heroines name).Movie is supposed to made with Mahesh as hero.But as we know Mahesh is busy man with no work at all!!!So things did not happen.

Puri Jagan played his real life role.Incidentally he is the director of Manjula's earlier film Pokiri.

Gautam Menon acted in one shooting scene with Krishnudu.Observe it.

Get the glimpses of Princeton university and Bridgewater temple and many locations around Newjersey in the movie.

Cameo by trisha and simbu who starred in the tamil version added some relief.

Ask me for rating!!.

Chakri’s rating 2.5 (sorry boss far less than jeevi).