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Story Gubbi, Camera Brahmastra!

Haage Summane Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag

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“Rich people do not watch Kannada films. They watch only Hindi and English films. Kannada films are competing in the market against other films only because of audience such as auto drivers,” lectures Pavan, who plays an auto driver in Kannada film Haage Summane. The so called rich people who had come to watch this film in PVR by paying 150 rupees nodded their heads in quite agreement. Only, the golden advice came two hours too late, they say.

Acclaimed story writer Preetham Gubbi’s directorial debut Haage Summane represents a disturbing trend in Kannada which is fast gaining popularity with filmmakers. Like a dilapidated building that has stunning interior decoration, Haage Summane has refreshing camera work, a heroine who looks great even without good camerawork, good music and a lineage of character artists who play the picture perfect family and grin whenever the camera focuses on them. Only factor missing is the freshness in story and that’s frightening to say the least.

Director Preetham Gubbi opens the film with a very interesting sequence, but fails to carry on the momentum as the film progresses. Preetham (the name of the hero) is the son of a rich businessman who can’t wait his son to fall in love. He once Haage Summane gets hold of a diary in an auto, and falls in love with the girl who wrote that diary. By this time, you would start hating the writer who wastes such precious film stock to narrate such a simple thing in this time of economic recession.

By the time you yawn a hundred times and the ‘boy woos the girl’ monotone is finally over, the hero makes a startling discovery that heroine is the not the one who wrote the diary (well, it was startling at least for hero!) So what? Big deal?

Oh yes. Because in the second half, Preetham Gubbi remembers people who went out in interval and came back have courage to face the odds. So he decides to reward them with some interesting sequences, which will at least make your decision to come back not look foolish. There are some excellently shot songs, some beautiful locations and some good scenes to give you company.

With a good music director and a very good cameraman, Preetham Gubbi’s lack of imagination in narrating a story is somewhat concealed. Both the story and the narration are like an expensive meal in a posh restaurant; lots of decoration, but no taste.

Kiran looks good but things go irritatingly wrong when he tries to emote. But there aren’t too many people who can play college kids in an industry that is dominated by 40 plus stars. To add to the woes, newcomers such as Yash, Kiran and Suraj (guess which movie he starred in recently!) have grown shrubby beards which make them look like siblings separated at birth (oh, that old story again!)

Suhasi is neat and looks cute, which is the biggest asset for the heroine in an industry that has the highest disregard for the story. Other actors like Chadrashekhar, Sharath Babu, Yamuna and K.S.L Swamy are good.

As the auto driver says, Haage Summane is not for those rich people who have grown up on a staple diet of Hindi and English films. Heck, you don’t even need to see this film if you have seen Mungaru Male.