Movie Review : Ladies and Gentlemen - social network andi babuuu

Movie: Ladies and Gentlemen(Telugu)
Banner: Shridi Sai Combines 
Cast: Mahat Raghavendra, Adivi Sesh, Chaitanya Krishna and others
Story: Sanjeev Reddy
Dialogues: Nivas 
Director: PB Manjunath 
Relese Date: Jan 30th, 2014



APTrendz Rating: 3/5


Story: Like all films of this genre, the film follows the stories of three couples who are impacted by social media. So, we have a student Krishnamurthy (Chaitanya Krishna), a bored housewife Priya (Nikita Narayan) and a call centre employee Vijay (Mahat Raghavendra).  

Though Krish dreams of having a girlfriend, like all boys of his age, he is shy and awkward. So, he hunts the Net to make friends with girls. One day, his prayers are answered and Deepa (Swathi Dixit) sends him a friend message.  

Then, there is the rich but bored housewife Priya who has an ideal husband in Anand, who runs his own software firm (Kamal Kamaraju). But she wants the little joys of life which Anand has no time for due to busy schedules. So, when her college friend Rahul (Adivi Sesh) pops up suddenly, she ends up flirting with him.  

Last, but not the least, there is Vijay (Mahat Raghavendra). He is a call centre employee, but dreams big and does not think twice before taking huge loans and resorting to inappropriate means to make money. And he splurges on his model girlfriend Anjali.


Plus:
  • Climax
  • Concept
Minus:
  • First half

Technical details:
The main highlight of the film is surely the now popular Raghu Kunche song, Social network andi babu. The song is all over social media and is likely to be around for quite some time. Once again, Raghu Kunche comes up with that one song which the audiences will hum for a long, long time. 

Cinematography, editing, screenplay all are decent. The producer has taken care to provide the right backdrop for the film to make sure that it adds authenticity to the plot. As for director PB Manjunath, he debuts with the film. After working as an associate director for various films like Back Bench Student, etc, he gets a chance to make his own film. While his style of telling is in keeping with small budget films, he unfortunately gets to work with a stale story.

BottomLine : Message Matters!!!