Vasu

<p>After graduation, Vasu runs a college canteen and a music school and teaches music for seven years to make his living. His father Rao is an IPS officer and wants him to appear for Civil Services examinations to take up an IPS career, but Vasu has different plans for his future: he dreams of becoming a musician and a singer. One day, a young IPS officer Subramanyam comes to Vasu’s place to seek the blessings of Rao. He admits that Rao is the source of inspiration for him to become an IPS officer. Vasu’s father feels dejected that his son does not heed his advice to take civil service exams. Meanwhile, Vasu spots a beautiful girl Divya on the street. He plays every possible trick to woo her, but all his plans backfire and make him appear foolish in Divya’s eyes. Rao spots his son bashing up men in the streets and asks him to leave the house and stay outside, to which he does. Divya goes to Vasu’s place along with her luggage when Vasu is about to leave the house. Later, Vasu learns that Divya is the daughter of Vasu’s father’s childhood friend and sees this as an opportunity to get close to Divya. He returns to his home and promises that he will not touch music again and concentrate only on his studies, but he secretly pursues his musical ambitions. Vasu passes the preliminary auditions of the Music Talent search conducted by Sony Music Company. When Rao spots the letter from Sony, he argues with his son and asks him to either be there in the house and study for IPS or leave home to pursue his dream of becoming a musician. Meanwhile, both Vasu and Divya fall in love with each other, but they never express their feelings towards each other. Vasu’s sister loves Divya’s brother, and it is okayed by the parents of both parties. It is also revealed that Divya already okayed a man named Manohar by looking at his photograph (this is much before she met Vasu). Vasu is on the stage to prove himself as a singer and musician in the final auditions of Sony Talent Search. Divya and Manohar are to marry on the same day, and Vasu’s sister is to marry Divya’s brother. Vasu wins the prize at the audition and sits in a park mourning his heartbreak. Then, his father and sister arrive, and his father apologizes for his opinion of Vasu’s career. It is revealed then that Divya did not marry that day along with Vasu’s sister as she loved Vasu. In the end, the lovers unite, and the two couples’ marriages are rescheduled. Music composed by in his Telugu debut. The music was released on ADITYA Music Company. (The audio got unanimous hit talk all over airplay and within 4 days of its release it had sold over 2 lakhs. The peppy number “Sportive Boys” topped the charts for many weeks.) The song “Paataku Pranam” is inspired from ‘s ” “. All tracks are written by . Jeevi of rated the film three out of five and wrote that “Karunakaran concentrated too much on the character of hero and did not really expand the role of heroine, which is very uncharacteristic of him (if we look the way he beautifully explored the roles of heroines in and ). That hero orientation for has robbed off the family story tag this film”. of wrote that “Venkatesh is as ebullient as he has been in other films. Bhoomika has a limited role. But for the last part, where she encourages to take to music, her character remains passive. The comedy is worse, because of senseless and tasteless scenes”. A critic from wrote that “Director Karunakaran has tried to re-work his where career, love and affection to parents form the base of the story but in it has fallen flat! The only highlight of the film is the brilliant music of Harris Jayaraj. However lacks soul and style”. wrote “Venkatesh in a novel get-up along with fine music and well conceived scenes make the movie special. Although the message is an old one, the director succeeds in narrating it neat and straight to the audience. The scenes with the hero and heroine are very entertaining. Major part of this success can be attributed to dialogues written by Trivikram”. Reviewing the Tamil dubbed version , K. N. Vijiyan of wrote “There are no surprises in the story and it is very predictable. The climax is also unbelievable”.</p>