Love Story - Movie Review

After scoring blockbuster with Fidaa, Shekar Kammula is coming with Love Story. This is the 1st combo of Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi. They were supposed to be in Premam, but Sai Pallavi didn't want to do remake films, even though it would be recreating her character of "Malar Miss" from Premam original version in Malayalam. The same character was later offered to Shruti Hassan. 

Story :-

A selfmade zumba master who comes from downtrodden family and lower caste dreams of opening his own centre. A girl comes from her village to city, to get a job, stand on her own legs and take care of her family, instead of begging her own uncle for livelihood. Despite being from an upper caste, she has a dark past which disturbs her very often. How these 2 meet, fall in love, move ahead in life chasing their dreams and breaking the socio economic barriers forms the story. 

Performances :-

Sai Pallavi just killed it. You can't take eyes off her, be it the dance, emotions, anger, love, pain, she is just too good. Especially in the emotional scenes, you tend to feel her pain. Her dance moves were extraordinary. She's the best dancer I've ever seen on Indian screen till date. This is Naga Chaitanya's career best performance till date. His body language, dialogue delivery in Telangana slang, hai expressions were on par with Sai Pallavi. Though he is not a great dancer and knowing Sai Pallavi is a pro, he improved a lot and gave his best. Rajeev Kanakala as uncle is terrific and menacing. Uttej, Eswari Rao, Devayani were good in their roles. 

Technicians :-

Music is one of the biggest asset of the movie. Audie was a big hit long before it's release and the background score was also apt. Costume designing was very natural and neat. Cinematography was good. Unnecessary graphics of old city area should have been avoided, as it was clearly evident and made it look cheap. Picturization and placement of songs was good. Shekar Kammula dialogues were simple, real and striking. Direction was very well done, involving us in the story from first and makes us connect with lead pair. 2 serious and delicate social problems were addressed through a love story, which was very effectively done and it's not an easy job to do. 100% marks for that. Editing could have been crispier, as some parts felt boring. 

Positives :-

Sai Pallavi & Naga Chaitanya

Music

Basic plot and it's narration

Negatives :-

Slow pace

Editing and run time

Hurried climax 

Analysis :-

Love Story is an intense and emotional story with a strong message. Well perceived and is worth watching. 

Rating - 3/5