Kavya's Diary Review

An off-beat story with no takers

Charmme, who bagged a big success with ‘Mantra’ had no hits to her credit after that film. She faced successive failures and was in depression. She kept high hopes on her latest film ‘Kavya’s Diary’ produced by Manjula. It is worth mentioning here that Indira Productions bagged a national award for best screenplay for its debut film ‘Show’. Though the second film ‘Nani’ with Maheshbabu was a dud, the banner not only regained its strength but also created a new record in the entire south Indian film industry through ‘Pokiri’ in association with Puri Jagannath’s Vaishno Academy, again with Maheshbabu as hero. Though ‘Kavya’s Diary’ was completed long ago, it failed to do any business possibly because of the successive failures of Charmme. Somehow, the film hit the screen on June 5.

Puja (Indira) loves Raj (Indrajit) and get married. The couple had two children, with a daughter Amulya and a son. They get into a new house and Raj, who loves Puja so much provides her an ample space to develop a garden for herself for research. They lead a happy life in their sweet home. One day, Kavya (Charmme) saves Amulya from an accident. On learning that she lost her job, Puja convinces her to stay with them to take care of her children. One day, Raj’s brother Abhi (Sashank) visits their house for festival and loses his heart to Kavya at first sight. Kavya refuses his proposal as she fears that her obsession towards would lead to disaster and she will lose it. But Raj and Puja convince Kavya to accept Abhi’s love.

True to her fear, Abhi dies in a hit and run case. But the truth is that Kavya kills him. Here the flashback gets revealed that Kavya develops animosity towards Puja and her family as she was responsible for the death of her husband Dr Kiran. It was because of the complaint given to the Medical Council of India by Puja against Dr Kiran, the latter commits suicide by jumping in front of a speeding vehicle. Kavya becomes an orphan. Though she was pregnant at that time, she suffers abortion and the doctors remove her uterus too preventing her from becoming a mother latter. Now Kavya decides to regain her family life, by eliminating Puja and occupy her place with Raj. So, she moves close with the children and pamper them and get them addicted to her.

How her true colours revealed? Did Puja realise that Kavya came to their house only to take revenge? What steps did Puja take to prevent Kavya from taking revenge? What was the fate of Kavya, who tried to take revenge against an innocent Puja? Answer to all these questions farm part of the climax.

PERFORMANCE:

It is a surprise that the film had two heroines and a hero. At the same time, none of them are heroines or hero. Indira, who showcased her acting talents right in her first movie ‘Show’ proved herself once again by playing a main role in this film. She is good at acting and though she could not express feelings very effectively, she is okay and did justice to her role. Indrajit who played Indira’s father also did his best. He did a good job as a middle-aged husband and a father of two children. Charmme played a role with negative shades. Her character runs with full revenge drama and she showed good expressions and could show cruelty through her eyes and spinning a smile in the lower part of her face. She did a romantic song with Indrajit for one rain song and did complete justice to her role. She really worked hard with an aim to achieve a hit. Satyam Rajesh, though tried his best to evoke a little comedy, could not do so. He also played a key role in the film.

TECHNICAL:

The story and screenplay of the film was provided by Indira Productions’ unit and the director had no other choice to follow the same strictly. However, he attempted to narrate the revenge drama in a different way, which needs compliments. He succeeded in explaining the value if human relations, family relations and the value of true love on screen. He etched the characters of Indira and Indirajit well and made everyone appreciate their happy living. The director’s technique to reveal the flashback and revealing method of suspense was quite poor and the rewinding of the entire episode like flash news, resulted in boredom to the audiences. Music by Manu Ramesan is average. Though the tunes or lyrics are not foot-tapping, he excelled re-recording and elevated the scenes in the second half. Camera work by Shyam Dutt is also just okay and not very great. Editing by Mahesh Narayanan is below average and he should have sharpened his scissors to cutshort the flashback episodes. Production values of Indira Productions are okay.

ANALYSIS:

As was the tradition, Indira Productions chose an off-beat story as the plot for their film. The film-makers need a word of praise for taking a daring step to bring out a film with mere human relations and family relations coupled with a revenge drama. The story provided by Indira Productions unit lacked the comedy and the audiences could not enjoy the film. Moreover, there are absolutely no commercial elements like mass, masala songs or item numbers. For the audiences, who welcome suspense and thriller stories may like the flick, but the slow narration tested the patience of audiences. The film has nothing to offer for the front benchers.

Cast: Charmi, Manjula, Indrajit, Shashank, Satyam Rajesh

Credits: Cinematography – Shyam Dutt, Editing – Mahesh Narayanan, Dialogues – Vakkantam Vamsi, Lyrics – Ananta Sriram and Ramajogaiah Sastry, Music – Manu Ramesan, Story and Screenplay – Indira Productions’ creative team, Producer – Sanjay Swaroop, Director – Karuna Prakash.

Banner: Indira Productions Pvt Ltd

Release Date: June 5 2009