Morning Show Muchatlu - Navvule Navvulu

Ali, AVS, Kondavalasa, Krishna Bhagwan, MS Narayana, K Chidambaram, Sunil, Jayalalitha and company assure you from the posters that this film is a complete comedy. Navvule Navvulu does not come remotely close to it, infact it is tasteless, crude and maybe being stoned would make this movie an absolute laugh-riot. Prithvi plays the hero who is in love with a college student.

There is another man in love with the same girl and Prithvi picks up a fight with him while he teases her. The young man dies accidentally and Prithvi on the insistence of his girl friend agrees to dress up like a woman to protect himself from the police. He finds a shelter in a women’s hostel and attracts attention from all and sundry. How he helps others, steers himself clear from the accidental death forms the crux of the story.

Except for Kondavalasa who plays the suspecting husband, the rest of the characters are more horrible than funny. AVS plays a transvestite who keeps jutting in and out of every scene overdoing his bit, Prithvi in a woman’s attire is anything but decent, his desperation to come back to the commercial stream is evident here. Sunil is the police and Ali as the confused son wears a bemused look throughout.

Chalapati Rao’s work is artificial as the father who wants probe into his son’s death. The first half of the film is always looking out for an excuse to break into a song but post interval there is some trace of substance. Anju Asrani the leading girl is convincing. , This film is inspired by a novel ‘Kodekaru’ scripted by Bollimuntha Nageswara Rao and produced by Paleti Venu and V Sivaramakrishna Prasad. There is nothing in the film to make the viewer stop and think, except maybe for the thought popping into one’s head; “why am I watching this?”