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Cast: Nani, Nitya Menon, Sneha Ullal, Chaintanya, Kriti Karbanda, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rohini, Hemant, CVL, and others
Dialogue: Lakshmi Bhoopal
Music: Kalyani Malik
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Ananth Sriram
Cinematography: Arjun Jena
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Executive producer : Vivekananda Kuchibotla
Produced by: KL Damodar Prasad
Banner: Sri Ranjith Movies
Story, screenplay and directed by: Nandini Reddy
Release date: Jan 21, 2010
CBFC Rating: U
What's it about !
A young chap Gautham (Nani) is on his way to Bangalore to stop marriage of his girlfriend who is getting married to another guy. En route, he is kidnapped by John (Ashish Vidhyardhi) and the kidnapper demands him to narrate his story. Gautham tells him that he works with a TV channel and falls in love with a girl (Kriti) but she ditches him for a doctor. On the wedding day of his former girl friend, he meets a drunken girl Nitya (Nitya Menon) who happens to be the former girlfriend of the doctor. Soon friendship blossoms between Nitya and Gautham. As the days pass by, Gautham falls in love with Nitya and when he is about to propose, enters Nitya's fiancée. More such twists and turns follow till the climax. In the end, will Gautham and Nitya meet again or separate forever?
Analysis
This is debut feature of Nandini Reddy who assisted Krishnavamsi for seven years. Her plot line is simple but her screenplay is knitted with many twists and turns and that makes the movie a pleasant watch. At the end of the interval, Asish Vidyaradhi says: "Nee Katha Param routine Gaa undi (your story is very predictable) and we get the same feeling at that juncture but post interval the movie engrosses you especially the funny and hilarious moments make us glue to the screens.
First half is really boring and lengthy. The director seems to have deliberately kept all her narrative acumen to show off towards the climax. Whatever be the case, the movie bores you sometimes and provides chuckles in the end. If only the same care is taken in the first half, the film could have given us more enjoyable treat.
Performances
Naani brings some verve to the dull moments with his performance. But he's beard and looks are not consistent, sometimes he looks as if he came from another movie and doing these scenes. Nitya Menon scores in performance although she is not that glamorous. But she should have chosen better dresses. But the real scene-stealer is Ramesh who plays the role of drunkard software engineer looking for any job. He is hilarious and livens up the scenes with his perfect coming timing. Ashish Vidhyaradhi also provides good comedy in the end. Director Uppalapati Narayana Rao (of Jaitrayatra and Rakshana fame) is okay in a father role.
After long gap, we have seen Rohini (plays mother to Naani) in this movie. Chaitanya, Sneha Ullal and Kriti play cameo roles and they have done justice to their small roles.
On technical front, the movie is dogged by bad visuals (whether it is due to bad grading, or bad digital transfer to UFO is not known). Arjun Jena 's camera work is unimpressive. Two songs by Kalyani Malik are good to ears.
Lakshmi Bhoopal' s dialogue is effective. As a director Nandini Reddy shows spark in handling comedy scenes. Like her guru, she has also extracted some cute expressions from the heroine. Unlike other women directors in the past, she has brought urbane look to the story narration.
Bottom-line!
Ala Modalaindi can be watched once for its comedy in the second half. The twists and turns are also novel. But on the whole, it is just an average flick.
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