Keka - Review

KEKA


Review
Rating: 2.0/5.0
Banner: Chitram Movies
Cast: Raja, Anup Kumar, Ishana, Dharmavarapu, Ralla palli, Duvvasi Mohan etc
Lyrics: Sirivennela, Veturi, Chandrabose
Editor: Shankar
Choreography: Shankar, Suchithra
Cinematography: PC Sri Ram
Music: Chakri
Story-Screenplay-Dialogues-Producer-Director: Teja

Story: Arjun (Raja) and Sujatha (Ishana) fall in love- Kiran (Anup) and Arjun are best buddies, all the three Study in the same college. Parents of Sujatha and kiran are family friends and they fix the marriage of sujatha with Kiran. Arjun leaves the city, as he doesn’t want to come in between them. What happens next?? Who will get married??? forms the rest of the story.

Performances: Arjun is o.k. as the debutant. Anup needs to improve but suited well to the role. Ishana has the grace and charm. She is good as the heroine. The remaining cast is new and none has given a memorable performance. The Editing is good. The Music is o.k. The cinematography is very good. The story is old formatted one .The screenplay is bad. The direction is also predictable.

Analysis: Teja has come up with yet another meaningless love story that has no soul and feel. The narration technique followed by him is new to some extent but failed miserably in sustaining the grip/Audience Interest. The Screenplay is so bad. He lost the track some where in the middle and tried to link completely two different backdrops---- of college and Street children in kolkata. There is not even a single Scene where the Audience gets entertained--- Added to it there are pages & Pages of Bengali/Hindi dialogues supported by Telugu Subtitles which irritate the Audience. The story itself is out dated. The love Scenes doesn’t deliver any feel. The film is completely in contrary to the hype created by Teja.
The Music is o.k. The songs “Love you” and “ Adigave maatayina” are very melodious and hum able. At last Chakri has come up with something new that he hasn’t done before. The back ground Score too is o.k. to some extent. The only best part of the film is Spectacular Cinematography by P.C.Sriram. The frames are Stunningly good. The lighting Scheme followed is fantastic. The reverse action Scenes are well shown in the Song “ Adigaave maatayina” .The locations in Calcutta are very well exploited. If any one can touch/reach the visual Standards set by P.C.Sriram is none another the master himself.

Teja casted mostly new faces except a few actors like Ralla palli, Duvvasi & Dharmavarapu whom we find in almost every film of his. Raja (Lyricist Sirivennela Seeta Rama Sastry's son) is o.k. , He has done a decent job for a debutante. He has to improve a lot in his expression, overall an average show. Anup's performance is ok and Ajay's dubbing suited well. Heroine Ishana resembles Neha Jhulka (Okkadunnadu fame) and Illeana in many a frames-she is o.k and has good screen presence. If the over action in emotional scenes is overlooked she has done reasonably o.k job. Like Teja’s previous films titles this title ‘KEKA’ also is no way related to the story- he has just gone by his sentiment of having a two-lettered Movie title (he has been following).

Previous Teja films at least have the immature love Subject as center theme and revolve around the youth-this film lacks that too……… Keka is a Big Disappointment



Plus: Cinematography, A couple of Songs
Minus: Weak Story line , bad narration, lack of entertainment




Verdict: Strictly Avoidable – Flop







Reviewed By
Vinay