SOMBERI MOVIE SHOTTING FROM SRIKAKULAM
Sombabu (Ali) is a nonchalant boy who whiles away his time with
friends. He does never bother to do some useful work though he is
very intelligent and had the ability to do anything. Being a lazy
boy, two village elders (Jayaprakash Reddy and Jeeva) grab his
property like land and a mangrove and also eyes the land which
remained with him. Once Rohini (Ruksha), the daughter of a builder
(Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam) goes to Srikakulam
and Movva in Konaseema region for
a project report on historical temples and
sites. Sombabu falls in love with Rohini. In order to grab
the remaining property from Sombabu's parents, the village elders
hatch a plan to drive away Sombabu from the village and implicate him
in a temple theft case. At this juncture, Sombabu proposes to Rohini
and the latter refuse him saying that he is a fit-for-nothing fellow
and also a thief. Somehow, Sombabu gets acquitted and gets out of
jail. When he was in the jail, he realises that he should work hard
by shedding his laziness and prove himself. Incidentally, he gets a
job in Rohini's father's office. How Sombabu proved that he is not
just a useless fellow and how kind at heart he was? What kind of
concern he had with his friends and well-wishers? How he was able to
win the heart and love of Rohini farm part of the climax.
Ali performed excellently in his role. His character
was etched well. The director was able to maintain good shades in his
character, as a wayward boy and as a hard worker who realised his
mistakes. He mixed good comedy in the character and elevated the real
heroism in him during climax. Ruksha was a minus as a heroine. Being
a novice, she failed to deliver any kind of performance. Though
looked glamorous, she could not perform even in a couple of scenes
which she was supposed to. Srinivasa Reddy and Duvvasi Mohan, played
the sidekicks of the hero. Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam did justice to
his role by maintaining good dignity. Comedy by MS Narayana was good
and hilarious. Tanikella Bharani, Jayaprakash Reddy, Jeeva, Benarjee
and others are okay in their roles. Once again, Paruchuri
Gopalakrishna appeared as a politician. His dialogues on political
system were heart touching.
Behind the screen, Mano, who had a good experience
as a singer, turned music director. However, he gave traditional and
routine music but did not go for any experiments and fast beat songs.
However, two songs in the film penned on social cause were good both
in terms of lyrical value and their tuning was also good.
Camera
work by MV Raghu is okay. He captured the skyscrapers and beauties in
Dubai well. However, the picturisation of songs was routine with not
much camera work.
Editing by GG Krishna Rao should have been a little
crispier further. As far as the movement of the story, the writer
turned director, being a novice failed to maintain good tempo and the
movement of the story was not at a steady pace. Once the scenes move
faster and at times turn dead slow.
The director failed to establish certain scenes like
how a boss takes an attender to Dubai along with his daughter. H
