Review: Pavitra - utterly non-sense
Glam Doll (Pavithra ' Shriya) is out in the bad-bad world where the guys are starved of the four letter word. Ms Good Looks is also Ms Scantily Clad. Ok.
She works in a trade/profession/assignment said to date back even before Lady Warren chose her profession. Glam Doll took to the profession through Uncle Baldie (AVS) when mama was suffering from cancer. Dr Money Sucks keeps making demands for big money.
So Glam Doll resorts to money making through the profession. Her 'customers' include Killer Politician (Saikumar), Swamy Lewd (Ravi Babu) and the rest.
Glam Doll saw Zakmi Aurat (a Dimple Kapadia starrer) and thus instead of 'Operation Bobit' catches up with Crazy Camera (Sivaji) who is always taking pics of gals 'in-the-act'.
Glam Doll decides to get even with Crazy Camera. She picks every guy's instrument and not only blackmails Crazy Camera, but organises regular meetings for his victims, gets back the cash and sends him packing to prison.
Also Killer Politician is not just starved of sex though he has a wife and a relationship decides to pawn his son Mr Juvenile (Kaushik Babu) for his political ambitions. Mum Mom (Roja) watches and predicts Mr Juvenile has a predestined life partner. She could be Glam Doll.
Over to Script: Worse; Story: Ditto. One moment of seduction by Glam Doll our Juvenile promises to marry her. What was hitherto manipulative now gets dramatic, loud and even more painful.
Obviously Mr Juvenile's choice irks Killer Politician and Mute Mom. With Glam Doll being belittled she decides to take on everyone (the audience included).
She now contests an election, misbehaves at the party meet and makes her claims to be a Minister for Women Protection. She pleads for a separate department for protecting women against contemporary evils against the gender. Obviously does not know about the Vishaka directions by the Apex Court!!
You have a choice. Take this as a social document and cringe at the times we live in, the Double Speak, or in the alternative see this as entertainment with comedians, stars, songs and the works.
Then you have the third alternative. Crawl out of the theatre at the first opportunity because that is safe. The first, you may not since it is too grotesque and bereft of any serious attempt to deal with the malady and is so, so emotionally dramatic and screaming that you cannot take it seriously.
The second is even more challenging. Even if you are a part of the audience of the sixties where women centric films dealt with tears glycerine and weeps, you would find this too aggressive in that context.
The only purpose for which you may stay at the theatres is if you are hopeful that you may by accident run into something good in the flick. The third is suggested since you are not going to find anything positive.
Janardhan Maharshi who had earlier made the praiseworthy 'Devasthanam' returns with a howler with his treatment of a tale which is as old and surely as abused as the central character.
No one in the cast warrants any attention. Even Shriya who has a golden opportunity pays more attention to her looks than to emoting. Though she looks prim and propah (in fact too prim and propah for the role!), she lets go the demands of emoting in sync with the character.
'Pavithra' could well have been a biopic on an outsider but is lost in a quagmire of loud characters, grotesque situations and poor treatment.
News Posted: 9 June, 2013
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