Chaitanya (Shiva Balaji) is an idealistic young lad who is less concerned with getting a job and making money, and more with helping the downtrodden. Shanti (Sindhu Tolani) is his childhood buddy and does not subscribe to his point of view. A lot of Nuvve Kaavali style confusion between love and friendship ensues, and ultimately they decide it’s love after all.This 3/4ths of the movie having gone by, Chaitanya gets shot dead in a naxalite ambush. Shanti takes up his cause, files a case against the naxalites, rouses the entire nation and grins into the camera.It is only at the halfway point that you realize you’ve been conned, and start twisting and turning painfully like a colic baby. The movie is pedestrian till the interval, after which it getsaggressively boring. On one hand it leads you on, because you can’t second-guess the ending, and yet it still pulls off the feat of dumping another cliché on you from its magic-hat.

Analysis :

Shiva Balaji is mostly lover boy and fractionally idealist. He could do with a good shave, but he is all right otherwise. Left unescorted in a script that whirls around like a dervish, he does his best to ground himself and act sensible. He manages.The music is the saving grace of Pothe Poni. Micky Meyer’s tunes are melodic, and he clearly has a penchant for using echo effects. He brings in a lot of instruments too – trumpets and vibraphones among others. The song Cheliya is strongly reminiscent of Shankar Mahadevan’s Breathless, and gets you tapping your feet and grooving away as much as you can while sitting down.

TeluguOne Perspective :

Inadvertently, Pothe Poni got christened appropriately, for that is the attitude you should adopt for this movie.