Ishtam Review

How today’s youth see life and what is their outlook on relationship is what the movie portrays. The movie is a remake of Telugu blockbuster Yemaindi Ee Vela has some potential. Directed by debutant Prem Nizar who tries to bring out the right feeling of the youth.

Finding Vimal as a city breed techie is new to the audience and the actor is not comfortable in his new avatar but yet his performance is passable. The heroine Nisha Agarwal has done a decent job and was able to pull it off comfortably as she has played the same role in the Telugu version as well.

Saravanan (Vimal) and Sandhya (Nisha) fall in love and part ways due to circumstances. The duo now fall in love for the second time but this time Saravanan falls for a girl played by Parvati Nirban and Sandhya is wooed by Anoop. What will happen to Saravanan and Sandhya in the end is told in a convincing manner. Santhanam fills in the comedy quotient but could have done more. Others in the cast Pragathy, Yuvarani, Sampath, Nandi have done a good job.

Music by S Thaman is pleasing to the ears and camera by Seka Joseph needs applaud. Despite logic failing sometimes the movie is a sincere effort by debutant director and can be watched once.