Film: Boni
Cast: Sumanth, Krithi, Chandramohan, Ahuthi Prasad, Sudha, Tanikella Bharani, Jayaprakash Reddy, Satyam Rajesh, Naresh and others
Dialogues: Rajasinha, Lakshmi Bhoopal
Creative Design: Ramana Gogula
Music director: Ramana Gogula
Cinematography: I Andrew
Editing: M.R.Varma
Art: Anand Sai
Fights: Ram-Lakshman/Vijay
Produced by: Ramana Gogula
Screenplay and directed by: Raj Pippala
Release Date: June 12, 2009
CBFC Rating: U/A
Whats it about!
DD (Sumanth) and Chinna are orphans and childhood friends. Their aim in life is to set up a Pulihora centre. DD joins a local goons (Jayaprakash Reddy) gang so that he could easily get money for the pulihora center. On his first job, he is assigned to kidnap a girl Pragathi, a ministers daughter with noble intentions. In fact, Pragathi herself hatches a kidnap plan with her friend to demand 4 Crores from her father to rescue farmer who are losing their land. She thinks that DD has kidnapped her on her friends advice. Later she knows the truth but by that time she starts liking him. Then DDs boss comes to him and orders him to kill her. But he flees with her. The rest of the story is finding the person who hatched the plan to murder Pragathi.
Analysis
Music director Ramana Gogula has turned producer with Boni and apart from producing it, he also handles the departments of music, picturisation of songs and creative design (whatever that means!). NRI director Raj Pippala has made debut with this film. The directors basic premise - a guy kidnapping a girl who herself wants to be kidnapped for noble reasons and during the episode, they start falling in love with each other - sounds good on paper. Sadly, the execution, especially the screenplay, is too hotchpotch that the movie finally ends up a cockeyed one. Writing is too bad (both the screenplay and dialogs). Till interval, hardly anything happens. Except cinematography and couple of good songs, this badly executed, badly written movie leaves the audiences in boredom. And it is too lengthy for this sort of a kidnap drama.
Is there any Pulihora center (exclusively Pulihora selling hotel) exists in Andhra Pradesh? Even if it does, how much it costs to set it up? Rs 7Lakhs? Hero joining a mafia leader to get Rs 7 Lakhs to set up a pulihora center is hard to believe.
Performances
Sumanth
has done such orphan-rowdy characters in the past and he does role effortlessly. His sidekick is irritating to the most, it is very purely etched role. Newcomer
Kriti is okay.
Jayaprakash Reddys role is in the lines of Paresh Rawals in Kshana Kshanam. Comedy track by Satyam Rajesh and Naresh, Bablu and others is mediocre. Chandramohan portrays the surprising role with ease.
Technically, it is cinematographer
Andrews camera and music director
Ramana Gogulas work is appreciable. New director
Raj Pippala has tried to present the movie in novel way but he is letdown by his own team of writers. Writing is bad, to say the least.
Bottom-line!
Boni tries to tread path with action-love backdrop but fails miserably.
Boni is not a right debut for the producer and director. The movie is laced with hotchpotch of screenplay, lengthy and unnecessary scenes and predictable humor.
Rating: 2.75/5
Reviewed by
JP
