JOIN USI Am In Love
Kannada (U) ¬¬
Director: Nandakumar
Cast: Mahesh,
Kavya Shetty, Suraj, Dharma, Ramesh Bhat, Tilak and others
Boy meets girl, girl meets boy and they fall in love. Which is not tolerated by girl’s brother. Nor his business partner who has an axe to grind. Why? I am in love will provide the answer!
The old as hills story has fresh leads and simple narration with clean dialogues. Even the fights are believable minus all theatrics. Placing the hero as a fashion photographer certainly induces confidence in the newcomer who is otherwise a bit clueless, unable to get beneath the skin of his character. But not the girls. Be it Kavya or Neha or the others. As models or as the innocent girl, each one of them perform well. Kavya Shetty’s freshness is a plus point. Dharma, Tilak, Ramesh Bhat and Malati Sardeshpande are all good. Sai Tilak’s music and PKH Das’s camerawork go nowhere.
Credit must go to the director for keeping most of his story simple that it is understood even by someone who has lost the capability.
His leads back him for most of the time before inexperience claims them. At the same time, the script meanders and loses credibility slowly. In these days of MMS and other scandals, looking at a few photos and believing another girl saying she was cheated, beggars belief. It is to his credit that Mahesh stays perplexed and an unusual twist towards the end, lifts the film only to let it crash with a squeak at the end. The message intended for the audience is noble, but the route taken is absurd. I am in love fails to impress.