Kotha Bangaru Lokam
Kotha Bangaru Lokam – Touches hearts with the facts it brings to light along with teenage love.
Release - 2008
The story of this movie dates back to the time when EAMCET was a pinnacle test for engineering aspirants in Andhra Pradesh. Balu is a teenager who is at the prime of his age to be in for all the fun, be it good or bad. He joins a college called SVC, which only goals to fill the matrix of the papers and posters with their student’s photos tagging their top ranks. In the college, Balu falls in love with Swapna, problems start arising as the world where they live doesn't regard their love as pure, and consider it as a mere attraction causing them to deviate from their careers. Will they last long enough to prove all wrong or will the strings get cut between them by the harsh reality?? forms the crux of the story.
These are the days when shows like Kota Factory and Laakhon Mein Ek see success due to their portrayal of the coaching institutes and the life of a 16-year-old teenager aspiring for medical or engineering in this country. But this movie, dating back to 2008 picks one of the rhetorical angles in the life of a teenager. The love angle. The story gets weaved excellently when it comes to characters and the intrigue they create with their screen presence. The direction, dialogues, screenplay, everything fit well. The writing excels in the intense emotions it portrays and doesn't shy away from accepting some eye-opening facts, be it difficult to accept. The congested college wherein students are stuffed in, the mentality of the teenagers, the narrow mindedness and the dominating nature of elders, all these aspects are portrayed without any faking. The director also captures the energy and lingo of intermediate colleges with apt visualization.
The casting and the way senior actors are given versatile roles to play makes the film more professional and less prone to artificiality. In the same way, the director’s choice of taking the fresh faces for the hero and heroine roles pays off making the movie feel like we're watching a real drama as to where these people are actually related. The roles assigned for Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh, Jayasudha, Ahuti Prasad are written so beautifully with keen detailing. The character of Rao Ramesh who plays as a gracious Physics teacher brings to limelight how teenagers are blindfolded and fooled to pursue studies for the welfare of their career, how these activities don't make their mentality grow, how much important having an out of the box thinking is at this age. We also get to see senior comedians like Brahmanandam playing a bit serious and stern role along with the good humour. These roles are perfect character graphs which have their own life to breathe in the runtime. The diverse yet resembling nature of the characters is the biggest strength of the writing.
The romance angle becomes the heart of the movie influencing every person in the story. The bond between 2 young, mellowed teenagers is dazzling and mundane and also heart wrenching at times. The strength of the relationship is shown tactfully with the help of rising conflicts due to the contrasting backdrops of hero and heroine and the rising tension of their exams that they have to at least pass for getting a seat in engineering college and the reveal of their romance in the least pleasant way to their parents makes things worst . The movie throws this ironic fact as to how elder’s misunderstanding makes teenagers feel caged to the harsh reality even when they’re with their parents. Amidst all this world of problems, they still have to keep their relationship healthy. The movie also has this Father-Mother-children trio in the hero’s and heroine’s family which though running under the shade of the lead’s romance, has a strong message on children’s upbringing and how both children and parents get their notions wrong about each other. The movie stuffs in such many underlying messages. The student-teacher relationship in this movie is as touching as the Father-son relationship in this movie.
The visuals of this movie have a big role as to they capture the densely populated college to the sparse, free frames of romance, the boundedness at home and many more. Music by Mickey .J. Meyer elevates the movie, especially the background scores. Lyrics penned by Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry covers everything, be it the song Kalashalalo where the lyrics bind science lessons with the stalk and mock of teenage boys or the Brathukante song where the symphony of Sitar gets added with words which makes the audience rethink on the disbelief and the short term goals that are set in the adolescent life .
The production design of this movie is apt and makes things very real. The movie has taken a bit of time to set the plot, and at instances also has this gimmicky portrayal of friends which slightly breaks the feel of naturality that it perfectly maintains all along. Overall, this movie is a triumph in writing an engaging teenage love story which lasts long in our hearts due to its characters, adoring scenes, words and music.
Release - 2008
Starring - Varun Sandesh, Shwetha Basu Prasad, Prakash Raj, Jayasudha, Rao Ramesh, Ahuti Prasad and others.
Diretor - Srikanth Addala
Producer - 'Dil' Raju
Language - Telugu
Available on - Youtube
The story of this movie dates back to the time when EAMCET was a pinnacle test for engineering aspirants in Andhra Pradesh. Balu is a teenager who is at the prime of his age to be in for all the fun, be it good or bad. He joins a college called SVC, which only goals to fill the matrix of the papers and posters with their student’s photos tagging their top ranks. In the college, Balu falls in love with Swapna, problems start arising as the world where they live doesn't regard their love as pure, and consider it as a mere attraction causing them to deviate from their careers. Will they last long enough to prove all wrong or will the strings get cut between them by the harsh reality?? forms the crux of the story.
These are the days when shows like Kota Factory and Laakhon Mein Ek see success due to their portrayal of the coaching institutes and the life of a 16-year-old teenager aspiring for medical or engineering in this country. But this movie, dating back to 2008 picks one of the rhetorical angles in the life of a teenager. The love angle. The story gets weaved excellently when it comes to characters and the intrigue they create with their screen presence. The direction, dialogues, screenplay, everything fit well. The writing excels in the intense emotions it portrays and doesn't shy away from accepting some eye-opening facts, be it difficult to accept. The congested college wherein students are stuffed in, the mentality of the teenagers, the narrow mindedness and the dominating nature of elders, all these aspects are portrayed without any faking. The director also captures the energy and lingo of intermediate colleges with apt visualization.
The casting and the way senior actors are given versatile roles to play makes the film more professional and less prone to artificiality. In the same way, the director’s choice of taking the fresh faces for the hero and heroine roles pays off making the movie feel like we're watching a real drama as to where these people are actually related. The roles assigned for Prakash Raj, Rao Ramesh, Jayasudha, Ahuti Prasad are written so beautifully with keen detailing. The character of Rao Ramesh who plays as a gracious Physics teacher brings to limelight how teenagers are blindfolded and fooled to pursue studies for the welfare of their career, how these activities don't make their mentality grow, how much important having an out of the box thinking is at this age. We also get to see senior comedians like Brahmanandam playing a bit serious and stern role along with the good humour. These roles are perfect character graphs which have their own life to breathe in the runtime. The diverse yet resembling nature of the characters is the biggest strength of the writing.
The romance angle becomes the heart of the movie influencing every person in the story. The bond between 2 young, mellowed teenagers is dazzling and mundane and also heart wrenching at times. The strength of the relationship is shown tactfully with the help of rising conflicts due to the contrasting backdrops of hero and heroine and the rising tension of their exams that they have to at least pass for getting a seat in engineering college and the reveal of their romance in the least pleasant way to their parents makes things worst . The movie throws this ironic fact as to how elder’s misunderstanding makes teenagers feel caged to the harsh reality even when they’re with their parents. Amidst all this world of problems, they still have to keep their relationship healthy. The movie also has this Father-Mother-children trio in the hero’s and heroine’s family which though running under the shade of the lead’s romance, has a strong message on children’s upbringing and how both children and parents get their notions wrong about each other. The movie stuffs in such many underlying messages. The student-teacher relationship in this movie is as touching as the Father-son relationship in this movie.
The visuals of this movie have a big role as to they capture the densely populated college to the sparse, free frames of romance, the boundedness at home and many more. Music by Mickey .J. Meyer elevates the movie, especially the background scores. Lyrics penned by Sirivennela Sitarama Sastry covers everything, be it the song Kalashalalo where the lyrics bind science lessons with the stalk and mock of teenage boys or the Brathukante song where the symphony of Sitar gets added with words which makes the audience rethink on the disbelief and the short term goals that are set in the adolescent life .
The production design of this movie is apt and makes things very real. The movie has taken a bit of time to set the plot, and at instances also has this gimmicky portrayal of friends which slightly breaks the feel of naturality that it perfectly maintains all along. Overall, this movie is a triumph in writing an engaging teenage love story which lasts long in our hearts due to its characters, adoring scenes, words and music.
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