<p><em>Ajith<br />Kannada (U/A) ¬¬<br />Director: Mahesh Babu<br />Cast: Chiranjeevi Sarja, Nikki and others<br /></em><br />Boy flips for girl at the bus stop so much so that he skips his job interview in her pursuit. <br /><br />Soon, he grabs the chance to drop her to Hyderabad along with her “uncle”. </p>.<p>Things take a turn when at a petrol filling station, the girl urges him to leave the man behind and scoot! <br /><br />Is it the boy’s luck or is there something else in store for the two of them?<br /><br />Chiranjeevi Sarja as Ajith seems to have borrowed a few points from his earlier Chirru; his girth and hairstyle do not lend themselves much to the carefree, happy-go-lucky persona he’s supposed to show. <br /><br />The actors who play his friends show better pluck with director Mahesh Babu keeping the dialogues quite clean. </p>.<p>Nikki Galrani gets a much better debut than her sister Sanjana and can go places with a little more effort.<br /><br />Ajith really perks up with the first fight and thereafter it's a smooth ride till about the climax. Kudos to both Raviverma and Venkatesh for the well thought out details in action choreography. <br /><br />The same can’t be said of some slip ups the screenplay is infested with — like “Telugu” rowdies mostly speaking in Tamil. <br /><br />Harikrishna’s background score adds zing while Loganathan’s camerawork, the lighting and colouring are all commendable. Vinod Manohar’s editing too is spot on. <br /><br />Yuvan Shankar Raja brings all his tunes, and lyrics, of Linguswamy’s Paiyya, peppering the score with traditional percussion instruments. <br /><br />However, a loose thought refuses to go away throughout the film and long after people have left the hall: Would a dubbed Paiyya have saved all the expenses in making this film? <br /><br />Of course, watching suave and earnest Karthi contorting his mouth while someone else’s voice is saying something else would be a little squirm-weird.</p>
<p><em>Ajith<br />Kannada (U/A) ¬¬<br />Director: Mahesh Babu<br />Cast: Chiranjeevi Sarja, Nikki and others<br /></em><br />Boy flips for girl at the bus stop so much so that he skips his job interview in her pursuit. <br /><br />Soon, he grabs the chance to drop her to Hyderabad along with her “uncle”. </p>.<p>Things take a turn when at a petrol filling station, the girl urges him to leave the man behind and scoot! <br /><br />Is it the boy’s luck or is there something else in store for the two of them?<br /><br />Chiranjeevi Sarja as Ajith seems to have borrowed a few points from his earlier Chirru; his girth and hairstyle do not lend themselves much to the carefree, happy-go-lucky persona he’s supposed to show. <br /><br />The actors who play his friends show better pluck with director Mahesh Babu keeping the dialogues quite clean. </p>.<p>Nikki Galrani gets a much better debut than her sister Sanjana and can go places with a little more effort.<br /><br />Ajith really perks up with the first fight and thereafter it's a smooth ride till about the climax. Kudos to both Raviverma and Venkatesh for the well thought out details in action choreography. <br /><br />The same can’t be said of some slip ups the screenplay is infested with — like “Telugu” rowdies mostly speaking in Tamil. <br /><br />Harikrishna’s background score adds zing while Loganathan’s camerawork, the lighting and colouring are all commendable. Vinod Manohar’s editing too is spot on. <br /><br />Yuvan Shankar Raja brings all his tunes, and lyrics, of Linguswamy’s Paiyya, peppering the score with traditional percussion instruments. <br /><br />However, a loose thought refuses to go away throughout the film and long after people have left the hall: Would a dubbed Paiyya have saved all the expenses in making this film? <br /><br />Of course, watching suave and earnest Karthi contorting his mouth while someone else’s voice is saying something else would be a little squirm-weird.</p>
