Geethanjali:-This Love story is Magic.It gives a kind of feeling and touches your heart emotionally!

Geethanjali:-This Love story is Magic.It gives a kind of feeling and touches your heart emotional.!

Cast and Crew:

Prakash- Nagarjuna

Geetha- Girija

Geetha’s Dad- Vijaykumar

Geetha’s Grandmother- Radhabai

Lakshmi- Dubbing Janaki

Comedian- Chandramohan

Usha- Disco Shanti

Comedian- Sutthi Velu

Vice Chancellor- Sowcar Janaki

Dialogues- Rajasri

Lyrics- Veturi

Art- Thota Tharani

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Love Stories are not at all new to Telugu Cinema. Right from Devadasu to Gundejaari Gallanthayindhe, Telugu Cinema is never devoid of Love Stories or new concepts relating to it. Some love stories even go forgotten as time passes by. But Geethanjali is one unique Love Story which gets younger as years pass by. Let it be the music, freshness of Ooty, locations, minimal dialogues, performances- everything aided the film to become one perfect masterpiece love story which can always be remembered by a Telugu Film goer. Geethanjali fetched Nagarjuna a huge fortune of good name as a performer and an actor of brilliant taste. Though this was the only straight film of Mani Ratnam in Telugu, it became most impactful film in Tollywood till date.

Story Details:

Prakash (Nagarjuna) is a happy go lucky youngster who believes in enjoying life and during a partying night of the convocation day, he meets with an accident. Though the accident doesn’t do him much harm, the doctors diagnose him of cancer in liver and spleen. The vivacious youngster finds this news shattering and he feels lost. All his energy and happiness vanishes and he decides to go to some secluded place to live his last days in peace. Though his parents go against the idea, with Prakash’s repeated pleas they eventually agree to send him to Ooty where their relatives reside. Prakash arrives in Ooty, a peaceful and relaxed hill station and meets Geetha (Girija), a mischievous prankster who is pretty light hearted about life. Her fun loving nature is instantly shown in her introduction song where she dances in the rain as if there is no tomorrow. Geetha has a peculiar habit of fooling guys by saying she loves them and wants to elope with them and Prakash becomes victim of that prank once. But unlike other innocent guys, Prakash bounces back with his earlier vivacious nature which leads to lot of friction between him and Geetha. At one juncture he forcibly takes Geetha out and leaves her in a remote forest. After his anger abates, he brings her back but comes to know a shocking truth about Geetha’s health condition through her grandmother. Geetha is a heart patient who is living her last days. Prakash finds this news utterly shocking and questions Geetha how she is able to be so happy despite the health condition she is in. Geetha coolly says she is concerned only about the present but not about what happens in the future. This truth makes Prakash realize the greatness of life and he even finds himself falling in love with Geetha. What happens next? Forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Nagarjuna is excellent as the care not youngster initially and a great lover next. His performance isn’t over done in any point of the film and he looks quite mellowed down throughout. Nevertheless, the director makes sure Narajuna’s passion levels are never paled down.  Newcomer Girija does wonders for the role of Geetha and she looks amazingly like a girl next door in every frame. She is without makeup throughout the film yet looks stunningly beautiful with great histrionics. Her outfits were mostly Indian knee length sort of skirts which became popular as Geethanjali dresses after the film was released. Vijaykumar acted as Geetha’s father and does his best yet again. The kids in Geetha’s family make a great impact to the overall film. Sutthivelu, Chandramohan and Disco Shanthi are wasted in a pointless comedy track which is the only setback for a masterpiece like this. Veteran dancer Silk Smitha is seen in the introduction song of the hero.

Technical Aspects:

The story of the film was written by Mani Ratnam inspired by a true story he heard. Rajasri wrote the dialogues for the film with great ease and perfection. However, it is the cameraman P.C.Sreeram who was quite instrumental in making this film an epic. Every frame of Ooty, the fog and the decors were brilliantly captured by him throughout the film. Music by Ilaiyaraaja is another huge asset for the film where he got tremendous scope in scoring the backgroundscore with brilliant visuals. Geethanjali’s audio was such a big hit even before the film was released that- the film’s poster featured Ilaiyaraaja’s picture! Direction by Mani Ratnam is of top notch and established him as one of the directorial prides in South India by then.

Review by #knight reviews