#SCsuggests - Anukokunda Oka Roju

Anukokunda Oka Roju (English – Unexpectedly, One day!)  – Ticks all the boxes in a proper  Popcorn Thriller genre and does leave you with few more things to be remembered for.

         

   Release - 30th June 2005

  Language - Telugu

  Starring - Charmy Kaur, Jagapathi Babu, Shashank, Narsing Yadav, Harsha Vardhan and others

  Written and Directed by - Chandra Shekhar Yeleti

  Dialogues - Gangaraju Gunnam

 Producers - Gangaraju Gunnam, Venkat Dega

Available on - Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QtMPu89p-M

 Sahasra, a happy-go-lucky girl, studying B.Com in Hyderabad paralleled with her aspiration to become a playback singer for which she works under a renowned music director. Sahasra is too faster in spirit to live like a timid village girl and too slow and innocent to the urban space of the brawling city. She has a saddened and molested personal life as her father’s second marriage doesn’t come in terms with her lifestyle as she frequently gets taunted for her stay in Hyderabad with their family. One Friday evening, Sahasra leaves for a wild party upon her “urban“ friend's insist wherein she falls prey to the drugs served and has her consciousness disfigured. The next thing she remembers is going to her college on Sunday thinking that its a Saturday. Following this, she gets cautioned by an old man living in the same apartments of hers that pleasuring the city at night is tad bit dangerous for girls, she gets accused of a murder and herself gets threatened by the murder attempts that happen on her where the weapons just miss her life by the closest margins possible. Death rings the bells of Sahasra’s life as she gets scarred physically and mentally not knowing why. Living becomes a challenge for Sahasra as the fear of getting attacked strikes her time and again turning everything upside down.  What happened on that night?? Is the only question that remains unanswered forming the centre of the female-oriented suspense thriller.

The movie just like the writer-director Chandrashekhar Yeleti is very much unheard of. The writer-director has a very unique style of writing a story and running it with very odd yet entertaining characters. This movie has a very powerful template and a strong idea to infuse a story upon and the writer does complete justice by scripting it with keen detailing and complexities which it deserves. The story feels to be very thoughtful and the puzzling facts of the story create an engaging and suspenseful thriller. The story in itself is very complete with the aspects but the story has its brilliance in its characters as they multiply the feel of the story with its niche and intense characterisations which becomes a curious and more thrilling tale to watch out for. The characters are so designed that they don’t have the binary trait, like its either good or bad or its either black or white but they live and breathe in a greyer shade having a mix up of all the good and bad with a certain emotion hitting the top mark, be it misogyny, anger, frugality etc. It’s when these characters cross paths with each other or with Sahasra that they entertain and move the story further. The story has a continuous and more significantly a character anchored flow which progresses the story in the dark and more vicious direction. The story has a tight narrative by not simmering at any point in its intensity but not that tighter to keep you on the edge. It has a very own beating heart which thrills the audience throughout in a proper, more professional way not being prone to any substandard in delivering the story. The movie brings out a deserving version of the story with a concentrated and tactful presentation along with its dialogues, which suit and bring about the finesse of the story. The dialogues are well written by Gangaraju Gunnam, the creator of popular Telugu comedy serial Amrutham, having a balanced nature in them as they serve to lead the story along with entertaining the audience with its witty and dry humour. The confrontation between each character creates crackling dialogues which perfectly fits and gives a sense of completeness and pleasure to watch. Especially, the comedy portions stick out in the movie as they blend into the narrative rather than being individualistic and separated which normally Tollywood movies have.

The movie gets shot in a reddish-orange tint with unsaturated colours, in a trademark style to give a sense of tension or unsettling peace for the story. The cinematography Sarvesh Murari carry forward the emotion in a satisfactory manner with few innovative shots here and there. Same goes with the music my M.M. Keeravani, the songs hiccup the tempo of the movie makes it bearable only because of the melody and tuneful work of him. The background score is apt and gets the treatment what the movie deserved. The sad parts of the movie are its editing and the look of the movie as they feel dated and muffled as the film is shot in the early 2000s. The production design, budget and to some extent the casting gets more obvious and too simplistic at times. These factors don’t suffice and feel it’s slightly not up to the mark.

        In a nutshell, most of the elements in the movie unify and bring about the zing and zest that the strong and professional story is worthy of. The movies of such a kind will receive positive encouragement and love if it can make it to the theatres in the following years as it is a movie for which the movie industry and audience can feel proud of.

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