Review: Akasame Haddu - a pleasant surprise

Hyderabad: Akasame Haddu is a surprisingly good film for what it tries to achieve. It has an important message that life and career is more important than love.

Yes, we have had films which run on similar lines; however, Aakasame Haddu keeps you engaged with its interesting turn of events. Directed by Ravicharan, the film follows the life of a brilliant college student and how he almost ends up committing suicide when the girl he loves rejects him.

Rajeev stars as Narayana, a brilliant student who lands himself a job. As he looks forward to a bright future, he happens to see Keerthi (Panchi Bora) at a bus stop and falls in love with her.

Slowly, he begins to neglect his studies, parents and career while trying to confess his love for Keerthi. When she rejects his proposal, he contemplates suicide.

He heads to a bar to get drunk before dying and all of a sudden, Karthik (Navdeep) comes into his life as a messiah. Karthik promises Narayana that he would solve all his problems in his love life and how he does it forms the rest of the story.

The first half of the film is narrated in intermittent flashbacks, which makes it easier for us to empathise with Narayana's characterisation. Keerthi believes that Narayana has been stalking her and tries her best to avoid him and even reprimands him couple of times. Both Rajeev and Panchi Bora do justice to their roles and Navdeep stays within his characterization.

The film is more about Narayana's (Rajeev) life and everything which Karthik does makes sense because Karthik sees himself in Narayana, since he too faced similar situations back in college. Sashi, who plays one of Rajeev's friends in the film, is very impressive. He acts well and it would be nice to see him in more films in future.

The big twist in the tale is bound to take us by surprise and it's here that the intention of characters is debatable. The only explanation given is that when you are young, all you can think of is love and you are not matured enough to understand the complications.

Navdeep's desperation to save Rajeev's life from the brink of destruction is understandable; however, the conflict which Rajeev goes through once he comes to know the truth could have been handled in a better way.

His realisation is a tad too swift and dramatic as if the director was in a hurry to give a happy ending to the film. Mantra Anand's music is soothing on the ears and most of the film has been shot in Ramanaidu Studios.

Director Ravicharan shows good command over his narration and manages to extract good performances from all the actors, although the comedy is not so well etched.Aaksame Haddu is a decent film and Navdeep plays a sensible role after a long time. Watch it, if you have nothing else to do.