4th November 2004
Virginia

Here I am from the land of Porche`s, BMW´s and Mercedes to name a few. I was one those lucky few who ´ve witnessed the Shankardada MBBS hungama at Bochum in western part of Germany. It was one of those rare ocassions in this part of the world that many Indians got together. Ever since telugu movies started to hit the screens here, never before have we had this kinda response. It was on oct´27 evening at 7:30pm in the heart of Bochum city. UNION KINOS, the place where the movie was screened was abuzz over this movie. A never before crowd of 125 turned up and the theater was packed to capacity.

As the clock ticked 7:30 we were all set for the show. Gosh!!! The theater erupted all of a sudden with people shouting and whistling, the moment Chiru was shown on screen. Theater manager warned us of high decibel levels and put up a notice that it's forbidden. But how r we Indians without breaking the rules???

We pumped up the sound for all the songs. As for the movie, it was a complete entertainer right from frame one till the subham cards. It was Chiru´s show all the way. Be it his comedy timing, dances, his portrayal of emotions and whateva. I can say Chiru is one star who can create humor with his expressions and dialogue delivery. He has this gift of wonderful expressive eyes. In the scene where he interprets Sunita as`SUN´´ITA´ was hilarious and it evoked mind blowing response from the crowd. And his BEWARSE walking when he first goes to the college I bet would tickle anybody's funny bones. I would say it does not get any BEWARSE than this. I wish that walk should´ve been placed in movie in some more college scenes. The way he says maaya to Paresh Rawal and kopam lo entha mudduvastunnavo maaya!! had the whole theater in splits. Chiru did it in his own style. Never was there any dull moment through out the movie. Dances looked fresh after all those mundane lawrence kinda steps. Background score jelled well with the movie and keeps u intact.

Over all we had one hell of a fun filled experience. More than we hoped
For! Everybody were so happy to be part of this event. I thank all those people for making their presence felt and making this event worth remembering. I thank Venki for distributing the movie in GERMANY. Hema our exhibitor for bochum and appreciate his effort in choosing one of those well equipped theaters. Logic Sreenu for always coming forward and advertising. Bubuk, Murali, Subhash, Sashi and Rajkiran for lending ya valuable support and providing all that entertainment with ya electric presence. I bestow my gratitude to Arvind for capturing few moments during the movie and in the theater and Naveen for lending his camera.

Last but not the least I thank jeevi for posting this article.

thank u all
sumanthkumar anapalli
A fellow idlebrain visitor[murcielago]
[email protected]