Arjun (Sushanth) is 27 year old who doesnt believe in arranged marriage. But his mother arranges an alliance and forces him to meet the girl Anjali (Ruhani Sharma). They meet at a place.
During their conversation, she narrates her other experiences at pelli choopulu and he talks about his aversion towards arranged marriage. They form a connection. An incident gets them involved in a murder case.
Arjun saves her from this case and she develops affections towards him. But a misunderstanding spoils the budding romance. What happens next?
Actor Rahul Ravindran has written a simple story for his maiden directorial venture. The oneline story is Two youngsters meet for pellichoopulu and fall in love by end of the night. In other words, an hour long pelli choopulu episode gets extended into hours in their life and that becomes two hour movie.
The story (mostly) happens in a single night but he has written screenplay in a way to hold the audiences interest by adding a backstory for heroine and a murder mystery in the second half.
The film begins on a very wrong note and proceeds in dullest way for about 30 minutes. The real drama begins when the heroine enters into the picture. She comes to meet at his place for the pelli choopulu.
Over their conversation, she reveals her story her mothers condition and what would happen to her if he says no to her. This portion is handled in matured way by Rahul Ravindran. The soul of the movie is seen in this portion.
As we are warming up to the drama, the film comes to the intermission and later the director brings a silly and boring song at a restaurant and adds some boring scenes.
Thankfully, the film turns interesting again after 20 minutes and ends neatly. Where Rahul Ravindran gets it right is in the heroines emotional scenes but he goes completely wrong in other sequences. For a wafer thin plot, he should have used taut narration, much less run time.
It is also strange to see that heros mother, who belongs to affluent section of society and talks posh English, forces his son to get married because if he prolongs it for next five years, his arranged market go down?
When middleclass, rural men are getting married in 30s, it seems implausible that the modern mom forces her son about marriage at 27.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it bores such is the screenplay. The uneven narration and loose editing is the drawback.
On the whole, Chi La Sow has some good moments, some boring episodes. Second half is fairly better if you excuse the slow pace.