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Background Score
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Cinematography
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Charmme Kaur
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Satya Dev
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Editing
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Songs
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Characterization
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First Half
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Screenplay & Narration
Bottom Line: Jyothi Lakshmi – Highly Unconvincing…
Story
Coming to the story of the movie, Jyothi Lakshmi
(Charmme) is a really high class call girl. She lives in brothel house
on her terms and doesn’t really worry about what others think about this
profession. One fine night, she accidently meets with Satya (Satyadev)
in the brothel. From the first moments Satya only shows his true love
towards Jyothi Lakshmi rather than seeing her as a prostitution. Satya
in a short time proposes his true love to Jyothi and wanna take her out
of Narayan Patwari’s (Ajay Ghosh) brothel house. Jyothi runs away with
Satya’s and marries him with the help of a Police Officer. But Narayan
Patwari and gang starts going behind Satya. Will Satya survive Manju’s
(Tarzan) blow? What goes on with Jyothi Lakshmi? For that complete story
you have to watch the film on screen.
Star Performance
What one expects most from a movie like
JyothiLakshmi in strong performances. One marvels why is Satyadev is not
seen more often on the Telugu silver screen, he does his part with
poise. His character wasn’t properly inked, but he managed to pull it
off with honest performance. First we have an actor like Charmme Kaur
who’s been known earlier for her truly path breaking movies like
Anukokunda Oka Roju, in which she really did display talent and great
screen presence. Then there is the movie’s USP namely the lead character
Jyothi Lakshmi, the prostitute with golden heart storyline. The
portrayal of the Prostitute is superb, to say the least. She gives a
reeling performance though at times she goes over board at times. Her
looks, expressions and body language are typical of those of a
professional prostitute. And the character is well nuanced. There have
been attempts on comedy lead by Brahmanandam, Sampoornesh Babu, Satyam
Ragesh and Uttej providing the rear guard. Needless to say it looks
completely out of place. Ajay Ghosh & Tarzan are fine in their
roles.
Techinical Team
Jyothi Lakshmi is focused on the life of a high
class prostitute, but never delves deep enough into her life and as a
result, her anguish doesn’t affect the viewer much. The storyline looks
silly, a prostitute after getting married single handedly wipes out
brothel houses. But the issues could have narrated in a proper way, if
someone revealed lead pair feelings at the right time and the director
could have told the viewer’s something meaningful instead. With too many
relatively small issues narrated simultaneously, the focus tends to
drift away all too often. Well, it could also have been intentionally,
as there is no real story worth mentioning in the whole film. In all
fairness the film has some sincerity that has gone into its making but
its turns out to be lengthy even at around 2 hours and 13 minutes from
sentiments, confusion, insecurity, fights, every formula in the book has
been used in a good measure here.
The highlight of the
film could be the visuals by P G Vindha and to a certain extent the
music by Sunil Kashyup. Even in these days when mindsets and lifestyles
have taken a complete change from the days when he wrote the script, the
inimitable Puri Jagannadh has succeeded in presenting the story in a
puri-sh tone. Dialogues by Puri are good in parts, dialogues like;
Aadadi prostitution ki vasthundi ante kaaram society fail avvadame;
Condom ki Thali ki competition pettodhu; Devudu kuda aadadi ante
chulakanna anduke Moggalane kannadu aadalani kanaledhu.. etc deserves
some applause. Editing by S R Sekhar editing could have applied his
scissors more sharply. Production Values Charmme Kaur presents are good.
Analysis
Jyothi Lakshmi is movie which doesn’t full fill
the scope of its theme. Also the subject will be seen by some groups as
it’s controversial. There is a pretty serious storyline looks into some
idealistic mindsets that find it difficult to digest the effects of
revolution. But sadly Jyothi Lakshmi neither gets deep into the minds of
the characters nor succeeds in narrating the story amidst of sex
racket, in a convincing way. All in all, Jyothi Lakshmi coupled with
very narrow cross section of the viewers who will accept this kind of
motifs, stacks are odd against the film.
Cast & Crew
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Star Cast :
Charmy Kaur
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Producer :
Charmy Kaur,Swethalana,Varun,Teja,C. V. Rao,C. Kalyan
- Director :
Puri Jagannadh
- Music :
Sunil Kashyap
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Released on:
12-06-2015
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