Morning Show Muchatlu - Pelli Kaani Prasad

Allari Naresh and Sivaji would seem to be a pretty good bet to throw off some laughs, wouldn’t you think? One of these people should have been able to do something to save Pelli Kaani Prasad but that doesn’t come close to happening because, quite simply, this is one bad script. If director Satyam had been able to give it some pulp, or occasionally display a sense of humor, it might have promised a reasonably decent audience but a pathetic screenplay mars that hope too.

Gopal Rao (Raghuvaran) loathes girls who elope and marry against their parents wishes and as such wants his daughter to marry someone of his choice but is shocked when his daughter Sujata (Sridevi) expresses her love for a vagabond Varaprasad (Naresh). Like a dutiful daughter she marries Siva Prasad (Sivaji) and then the story moves on without the steam never building up. Suddenly there is a twist which lands on your head like a cat falling out of a tree.

With regard to the performances, both Naresh and Sivaji are not as bad as many people think. Infact they are the saving grace, they do a good and credible job. Naresh’s role did not have much substance and all he does is crack jokes that falls flat. Post interval Sivaji’s character is only somewhat more fleshed out, but only in one real direction.

Overall it’s a lousy plot and disastrously directed. Wonder what made the director settle for Tulasi and Raghuvaran when there are so many character artistes languishing in the telugu industry. About Sridevi, it’s unfair to say she cannot run around trees. With cardboard dialogue that sounds like bad first draft material, a painfully inept screenplay, and technical aspects that flounder the director just tosses Pelli Kaani Prasad in front of the camera with no help whatsoever.