'Pati, Patni, Avalu' a big yawn

Film: "Pati, Patni, Avalu"; Directors: N. Shivakumar, Vijay Gujjaar;

Producer: N. Shivakumar; Cast: Adarsh, Amrutha, Ruchitha Prasad, Ramesh

Bhat, Chandra Mayur, C.R. Simha, Roopa, Shankara Bhat and others; Music:

Shyam Sunder.

If the title of the film reminds you of the Hindi film "Pati, Patni Aur

Woh", which had superb acting by the unforgettable Sanjeev Kumar, forget it!

The Kannada film is not only mediocre, but falls flat right from the opening

sequence.

The film is a story on organ transplantation, and the hero of the film

undergoes this operation not once but twice. However, the film's focus is

scarcely on advanced medical science.

The narration lacks seriousness, but doesn't make up with anything comic

either. If you thought the theme promises funny situations, you are sadly

mistaken. The film makes the audience neither cry nor laugh, but only yawn.

The story: Adarsh and Chandra Mayur are brothers, and both are motor race

addicts. Adarsh loses his limbs and his brother Chandra Mayur dies in a race

accident. A doctor (C.R. Simha) advises the family to come to terms with

reality and use the advantages of medical science by transplanting Chandra

Mayur's legs and hands on to his brother.

Chandra Mayur's wife (Roopa) objects at the beginning, but later agrees,

after Adarsh's wife Madhu (played by Amrutha) requests her. Roopa's

affection for her brother-in-law and her actions make Amrutha suspect her

motives.

Adarsh loses his eyes in another accident, and the eyes are transplanted by

an unknown person who had died in Delhi. Adarsh becomes a normal person, but

unfortunately he has to contend with another woman who was the wife of the

person whose eyes were transplanted on him.

The woman likes her husband's eyes so much that she comes to Bangalore to

see the eyes now transplanted on Adarsh. She also wants Adarsh to be hers.

How this complex request gets sorted out is the climax.

The film proceeds at an agonisingly slow pace. The artistes look

emotionless, enacting an insipid script.

Shyam Sunder has provided some good tunes, but the filming is totally out of

place.

Adarsh, who was so good in his first film "Dumbi", and the glamorous Amrutha

have utterly failed to deliver the goods.