Priya Priyatama Movie Review

Banner: Moserbaer Entertainments Ltd
Cast: Bharath, Tamannah, Sapan Saran, Santhanam, Nizhalgal Ravi, Ravichandram and Others
Music Director: Vidyasagar
Producer:Bhadrakali
Director: R Kannan



A few films are masterpieces in their own way that many try to replicate them in number of ways possible. Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor starrer Jab We Met (2007), written and directed by Imtiaz Ali, falls in the same category. The movie has been remade in Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam languages by Moser Baer, which is now releasing Tamil Kanden Kadhalai in Telugu as Priya Priyatama. Featuring Tamannah in Kareena’s chatter-box role and Bharath in shy boy Shahid’s character, it is usually estimated to be at par with the original. Moreover, it’s the second release of director R Kannan this week afterVachchadu Gelichadu. So, let’s check it out!
PERFORMANCES:
Bharath didn’t try anything different in his character and rather simply imitated Shahid. Probably, it’s the idea of director Kannan! Well, he is passable and reminds us of sweet boy Shahid all through with his dramatics. Tamannah too follows the footsteps of Kareena and comes out with a below average performance. The character isn’t made for her and the makers’ was a wrong choice. While Kareena was a delight to watch in the role, Tamanna is infuriating most of the times. She was more like a mimicry artiste than a heroine. Santhanam is the only character that the original doesn’t sport. But, it’s very cheap and gets on our nerves occasionally. The rest of actors are not even worth mentioning.
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS:
Cinematography is very mediocre. Vidyasagar doled out appalling tunes and the background score is annoying too. Story is the same like that in Jab We Met with an exception that Tamannah’s parents here want her to marry her uncle Santhanam. In Jab We Met, Kareena runs away to tie the knot with her love interest. Same dialogues and locations play spoilsport. Screenplay is so boring and direction is the same. Kannan is understood to have in no mood to take risk by making a change in even one scene! Hence, I give him zero credit.
PLUS-POINTS:
Tamannah in few scenes
MINUS-POINTS:
Same story
Screenplay
Locations
Dialogues
Treatment
Direction
ANALYSIS:
The movie is a photocopy of Hindi Jab We Met. It irritates you by flaunting the same story, same locales and the same characters; Tamannah’s uncle Santhanam replacing Kareena’s boyfriend Tarun Arora is an exception, however. It appears even more ridiculous when every dialogue that the actors deliver here turn out to be true translation of those rendered by the actors in the Hindi film. It’s a bad decision on part of Tamannah to accept the flick. It would have been better if Kannan had changed the script. The remake doesn’t need a director if the original is retained. At the end, the viewers are left with nothing but hatred towards the makers for their tortuous endeavor. The film will be one of the biggest disasters in Tollywood this year, for it is worth not even a penny and a mere waste of time. I regret watching it!
VERDICT:
I wonder why the makers attempted to release the dubbed version when the Tamil remake itself disappointed the trade pundits. The Telugu edition too has no scope at the box-office. Now that people have seen Jab We Met several times, they hardly come down to theatres to watch this dubbed version. Even if they come, they will be subjected to rigorous punishment for daring the act. I must say, it’s such a cheap remake I’ve ever seen in the recent past. I’m taken aback to see the same locations on screen and the characters delivering the same dialogues as that in Jab We Meet. Kannan really has no need to take pains to do the translation job, since the public really were amused watching the original. The lead pair is taken for a ride and the story treatment is worse. Kannan did a blunder by taking this project up. Avoid the flick for your best!
MY WORD:
Priya Priyatama is one of the worst remakes!
Priya Priyatama Movie Rating: 2/5