'I am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona' (Kannada)
Director: Ravindra
Cast: Prem, Karishma Thanna, Sanjana, Tabala Naani, Srinagara Kitty, Nidhi Subbaiah
Director Ravindra, who made a futile attempt to handle the megaphone for the movie ‘Dhin Dhina Dhin’ a few years ago, has succeeded in proving his mettle as director with ‘I am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona’. No one expected this movie to pass the muster due to its post-release adverse as well as overdose publicity.
Had the director taken initiative to avoid such unnecessary publicity especially about the so-called lip-locking scenes between Prem and Karishma Thanna and Prem’s naked scene, this movie would have become a favourite of the family audience who are the lifeline for success of such movies at the box office.
Prem has done a neat job. Between heroines, it is Karishma who walks away with all honours. Her gestures are commendable and flexibility in song sequences deserves a pat on her back. It is unfortunate to see Sanjana in such a pity character that has no importance. Too much footage for her irritates the audience.
Had the director made a provision to show her indulging in social networking, it would have been a better justification for such footage to Sanjana’s character. It may be recalled that Sanjana, during promotional activities of this movie, had claimed of playing an anchor character in this film but the audience sees her playing a hi-tech prostitute on the silver screen.
The movie is about Sham (Prem), an architect, and Chethana (Karishma Thanna), a secretary, who falls in love at the drop of a hat and marry with same speed and enthusiasm. They lead a happy married life till Sham happened to meet Srinagara Kitty who requests him to hand over a cellphone, that was found in the lift, to its owner.
Sham finds that the cell phone belongs to Sinchana (Sanjana) whose profession is social networking. Sham, who hates people associated with social networking, makes it clear that he hates sex workers.
Sinchana tells Sham that there are good people among sex workers who continue to associate with social networking even after their marriage. She asks him to meet Geetha, a hi-tech sex worker who loves her husband a lot but still continue with social networking. Circumstances lead Sham to suspect his wife Chethana as Geetha. But he soon realises his mistake and helps Chethana who is suffering from brain tumour.
The climax of the movie is superb. Tabala Naani, who acted as a visually-challenged person in ‘Eddelu Manjunatha’, has played a similar character in ‘I am Sorry Mathe Banni Preethsona’.
His dialogues are meaningful. Cinematographer Ashok Kashyap has done a neat job behind the camera. Anup Seelin has composed foot-tapping tunes. Songs are good, especially the song —‘Joojuba Joojuba’ — is hummable. The movie is worth watching for all, especially husbands who suspect their sincere and loving wives.