Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada, Mathsarya stops a human from achieving his Moksha. Srinivasa Kalyana focuses on Srini's journey of being L.K.Balu and becoming Srinivasa again where Akshara and Radha become the crucial partners in his journey.
Movie -
The narration of the story is towards projecting it as a slice of life story with raunchy dialogues added to keep the flow entertaining. All the supporting characters are sketched in a way to serve this purpose. The film is told in flashback mode to showcase the life of Srinivas (played by M.G. Srinivas) right from his childhood to adulthood. The first love as he claims to be, Akshara (Kavitha Gowda) plays his teenage crush during his school days whereas Radha (Nikhila) is his love interest as an adult. The first half mostly is dedicated to narrate his first love story & how it ends. The pace is crisp as the proceedings are as real as it can get, beautifully capturing the innocence. None of the songs act as speed breakers in the first half.
The second half narrates his love story with Radha, journalism student who brings balanced amount of maturity & crazyness to the relationship. L.K.Balu representing the carefree, immature to handle any relationship, learns what it takes to be in a mature relationship built on trust. The situation Srini gets into unknowingly out of his carelessness threatens this very relationship & his hilarious attempts to salvage the situation intended towards providing entertainment doesn't really divert the film from it's basic premise. The film does get melodramatic towards the end, more or less as demanded from the commercial point of view, raises to top form with the climax.
The real highlight is the climax where the concept of Arishadvargas has been beautifully inserted to explain Srini's life. Srini achieves his Moksha. This is no spoiler, but the way it is explained to the viewers using the concept of Arishadvargas brings out the brilliance of the writer.
Performances -
M.G.Srinivas fits the bill, has screen presence & dances really well in the introduction song. His performance is as required by the script. Kavitha Gowda excels in her simple role where she wins over her infectitious smile. Nikhila Rao succeeds in bringing in the maturity & is good. Achyuth Kumar playing the father role once again proves his worth as an actor. Sujay Shastry is funny as the friend with his flop ideas. Aruna Balraj is hardly there. The actress playing the prostitute is first rate.
Special mention for senior actor Dattanna for the awesome climax.
Plusses -
1. Screenplay the doesn't drag.
2. Couple of songs & the use of stop motion technique.
3. Funny one-liners that mask those few sms jokes used.
4. Performances by the lead characters & of course a strong supporting actor Achyuth Kumar.
5. Climax.
Minusses -
1. Those abusive words were unnecessary. Though it helped create the buzz, the film would've come out the same even without these words.
2. Drags a bit due to melodrama pre-climax as a slow sad song is inserted.
My Rating - 3/5
Final Words - Definitely do watch Srinivasa getting his Moksha.
