Krishna Ni Late Agi Baro Movie Review

Better Never than Late!

So, what really tickles that funny bone of yours? Does a nutty professor in a women’s college who naively trips over a water bottle every time he steps into a class make you laugh? Does a girl who breaks into Shivappa Kayo Tande song every time she hears the sound of a train make you crack up? Or will a scantly dressed Guru (male!) floating above the water will do the trick for you?

You see, it all depends on the perspective. If you found the above tomfooleries funny, there are chances that you may actually end up liking this maiden directorial venture from Mohan. For those who believe in logic and sensibility still have a place on this earth (even if it’s a comedy film!), you can go back to movies like Rama Shama Bhama, Satyavan Savitri, and oldies like Golmal Radhakrishna.

Mohan, who has probably fiddled with more departments in this film than he can handle; first creates a story plagued with too many coincidences and then kills it as a director with some seriously over the top narration. As an icing on the cake, the dialogues are bland at most places (except some) and songs invade you inside the dark theatre without any warning.

Krishna Ni Lataagi Baro is the story of a mathematics professor in an all-girls college who is practicing celibacy and a mallu photographer who is in love with Neethu, whose father wants her to marry an Iyengar. So, we have a whole college ogling at Ramesh Arvind every time he steps into the college (Boys, hurry, there are still some posts vacant in that college!) Then, we have Neethu, who studies in the same college and who leaves her house fully clad in a traditional saree and then changes into short clothes once she is on college. No wonder you always want her to be in college!

Nidhi Subbaiah is Ramesh’s maavana magalu, and she can’t help singing a song whenever she listens to the sound of a train; and she also can’t help falling for Ramesh Arvind who keeps turning her down (Great acting by Ramesh, it’s not easy to turn down Nidhi Subbaiah!) There are some misunderstandings between these would-be couples and they all end up in a resort in Calicut for the climax. Strangely Mohan checks into that resort even though he has his house in the same city!

Just to make the climax interesting, we guess!

In Calicut, Mohan introduces some more demented characters like that of Tennis Krishna, a police inspector with short term memory loss (aka Ghajini) and keeps scribbling all the cases and names of the complaints on his body (now, that’s really funny!). Everybody has a great time in the end in a swimming pool at the resort and the film finally ends.

You see, it’s that kind of story, where the scenes are forced down your throat just to make you giggle. There are some who find that absolutely side-splitting.

We didn’t.

-Movie Review By Raju Shanbhag