The Mumbo Jumbo of Eastern and Western Values, Geetha Govindam movie: A Review

uma Jiji 03/20/21

On The Movie Geetha Govindam

Log line: 

A young man falls in love with an ideal lady, aspires to marry, however there are all kinds of hurdles of emotional conflicts and social drama, and finds himself a climb uphill.

Heroine's introductory scene:

The heroine RashmIka is at the temple (premise) offering flowers/doing  pooja and praying.

Intro scene: Exposition:

When Nitya ji's vehicle gets flat tire, she gets off of the vehicle. The driver stops in the middle of the road and says the vehicle is stalled and cannot budge. Nitya asks him to first get down, and shouts at the driver for the flat tire.

Q:Why is she losing her calmness?

Q: How come they do not have AAA?

Q: Not sure why the Stepni gas was not checked prior to the night time long distance journey.. 

Well anyways, story begins, and it is only introduction of a character who is more like a listener or prober. Could be that  she may be a researcher or journalist or editor...

Protagonist opening scene:

Vijay Devarakonda sits on a parapete wall of a culvert and sits as though he was with IQ of Forest Gump, when he appreciates the chocolates he was munching on, saying " My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get".. except Vijay Devarakonda is not playing anything close to Tom Hanks..

When Nitya ji asks this guy on the street if he knows of a repair shop or something, the dumbest thing you like to hear is he shouts at her if there is beer for him she can offer. Two dialogues more than necessary to explain how important CH3-CH2-OH is for this guy.

It doesn't matter if she carries Tharra or so as long as it is a spirit, he says, when the narrator(Nitya ji) offers a bottle of wine, from the trunk of the car.. Once again unnecessary dialogues saying her papa hides it in the trunk. Why would he not think she may have consumed the drink if it was half empty? Didn't make sense.

If she was drinking, she would have. She is over 21 so, who asks? Of course viewers do. Sometimes in Indian films you try to see people with Westernized (?!er really?!) thoughts, and sometimes holding on to traditional values. It is okay either way, because who is the target audience? A few urbanized intellectuals or the modern traditionists...

 Plot point 1:

Vijay as a male protagonist is travelling to Srikakulam, to meet his family members and relatives regarfing his sister's wedding. Rashmika, the female protagonist also gets on to the same bus and as if someone hears Vijay's prayers finds her reserved seat, next to Vijay. They try to show some kind of chemistry developing between these two folks. Crux of the plot is when the female protagonist is dozing off, male protagonist plans to take a selfie picture with the co traveller next to him, the female protagonist. At that point the bus driver drives into a bump. As a result male protagonist although posing for a selfie falls, to be kissing the female protagonist, as if by accident. It looks as if the male protagonist had no say in what happened at that moment. 

No matter what the reason was, regardless, the male protagonist crossing his limits is expected to be accepted as dashing performance. It was a felony to have done that.but cinema viewers are supposed to be liking and enjoying all this "creativity" as entertainment. 

Intro scene of Antagonist:The stranger from temple who the protagonist likes, and day dreams and behaves very rudely with, when she wakes up, calls her brother who is with two other people, who almost looks like a hooligan,  that is, when the antagonist is introduced, when his sister calls him from a travel bus similar to a Grey hound. This incident happens to be a time when story is going from first what happened, to then what happened to what turn it took, so to  say.. such as plot point1 continuation.

Interval is when the antogonist's fiancee calls him and tells him to find out the guy who eve teased and kissed the female protagonist, exploiting her decency, that's when the antagonist decides to arrive to Hyderabad, to catch the culprit, to figure out, with the help of some officials from law enforcement.

Story climax is, when the female protagonist is waiting for the male protagonist to be responsible and accept his errors and  express his love towards her, and most likely, seek forgiveness from her brother, the male protagonist, instead behaves as though a part of his brain is non functional. She gives him good when he tries to keep seeking her forgiveness, and never seek her love. What more can one conclude?

It was looking like a poor imitation of Chennai Express though.

Summary

In conclusion male protagonist learns his lesson as The firangi returned wannabe husband guides subtly. It is a jumbo gumbo of values of East and West mixed up and trying to please the mainframe viewers as well as influence them to think more responsibly.. Not a bad idea, I would give **** (4 Stars) generously. Nothing more .

"Geetha Govindam is a 2018 Indian Telugu language romantic comedy film written and directed by Parasuram, produced by Bunny Vasu under the banner of GA2 Pictures. The film stars Vijay Devarakonda and Rashmika Mandanna, while Subbaraju, Rahul Ramakrishna, and Nagendra Babu play supporting roles."

 Ref: 1. YouTube movie in Tamiz and 2. Wikipedia.

 

 ( ghar ko jaake Google karlo  yaa nahi to, iske bare mei Wikipedia dekhlo. Talaiva!👍💐)

Definitely needed element of humor, despite such wannabe electric people, slowly  ('story' with accent..) was verry (accent) slow.