Soombe seeks to escape the influence of theatre

Soombe (Tulu)

Director, screen play: Saikrishna Kudla

Cast: Rahul Amin, Shritam Banerjee, Vaijanath Biradar, Bullet Prakash, Devdas Kapikad, Navin D. Padil, Arvind Bolar, Bhojaraja Vamanjoor, Sundar Rai Mandara

This romantic comedy with a mixture of Tulu and Kannada dialogues is a sincere effort to make a Tulu cinema that gets out of the shadow of Tulu plays. The storyline keeps the interest of the audience till the end. The song “Rang Rang Rangaand Madrangi…” with impressive music, catches you. But the multitude of alcoholic scenes is a bane.

Described as a film within a film, the ‘masala’ story for Soombe revolves around a Kannada producer (Vaijanath Biradar) producing a Tulu cinema. The main theme of the story revolves around a financier who is after the hero (Rahul Amin) to recover the loan given to him.

Meanwhile, the hero and heroine (Shritam Banerjee) who are to perform as a pair in love in the film within film end up being attracted to each other in real life.

As the main story develops, incidents relating to it showcases the talents of noted Tulu artistes Devdas Kapikad, Navin D. Padil, Arvind Bolar, Bhojaraja Vamanjoor and Sundar Rai Mandara, with entertaining scenes. Biradar, whose acting in Girish Kasaravalli’s Kanasembo Kudureyaneri won him the Golden Wheel Award for Best Actor at the ImagineIndia Film Festival in Madrid, Spain, in 2011, continues to draw the attention with his Kannada with Bidar accent. But he has little scope to exhibit his talent in the film.

RAVIPRASAD KAMILA