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Film: Nuvvila
Cast: Avish, Ajay, Prasad Barvi, Yami Gowtam, Sarayu, Ramya, Kishore, Sudhakara Raju, Priyadarshini, Bhargavi, Atulith, and others
Screenplay: Satyanand
Music: Sekhar Chandra
Lyrics: Bhaskarabhatla
Director of Photography: Sudhakar Reddy
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: Narayana Reddy
Banner: Usha Kiran Movies
Presents: Ramoji Film City
Produced by: Ramoji Rao
Story, dialogues and directed by: Ravi Babu
Release date: Nov 03, 2011

What's it about!

A group of friends - Anand, Mahesh, Raju - work as pizza delivery boys to earn some money before settling in the life. Anand (Ajay) falls for the charms of girl next-door Archana (Yami Gowtham), but she is in love with another guy. Mahesh (Avish), a wannabe model loves Madhavi (Sarayu) but they soon break-up over a petty issue. On the other hand, Raju (Prasad Barvi), a musician, who hates his childhood friend Rani (Ramya) ends up marrying her by accident. Rest of the movie is all about how they realize their true love.

Analysis

By now, most of us in audiences are familiar with Ravi Babu's brand of "youthful" movies that replete with characters like youngsters who seek love but nothing else, parents who are either too friendly with their children or too strict with them. In fact, relationship (smooth /turbulent) between children and parents is recurrent theme in his movies. Nuvvila is no exception as it runs on familiar track with occasional fresh scenes and humor. There is nothing much that you haven’t seen before.

Usage of this generation's language, depiction of today's youth lifestyle and some comedy scenes are positive aspects of the movie. But the lengthy episode of gay comedy in second half of the movie tests the patience. First half of the movie ends in a jiffy, while second half fails to sustain the momentum.

Performances

Nuvvila stars mostly newcomers. Ajay in the role of Anand looks promising; Prasad Barvi provides some comedy especially with his lisping, Avish as an aspiring model who is harassed by a gay is okay. Hindi Television actress Yami Gowtham is pretty good in the lead role and is also charming, while Ramya scores with her expressions and acting skills. The guy who did the role of gay is good.

The film also has guest appurtenances by several music directors including Keeravani, Koti, Chakri, RP Patnaik, and Kalyani Malik. Sunil introduces the new actors with his voice over.

Among technical crew, only cameraman Sudhakar Reddy's work is appreciable. The artwork is more like for corporate film of Ramoji Group with too much of in-branding of the corporate group. Except for the title song, Nuvvila, Sekhar Chandra disappoints with his work. Ravi Babu's writing is pretty average. Fresh ideas that he infused in the taking of Nachchavule are missing in this movie.

Bottom-line!

In nutshell, Nuvvila is typical Ravi Babu's youthful film and offers some humor but there is nothing much that you haven’t seen before in his movies.

Rating: 2.75/5

Reviewed by: JP

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