Abhinandana (1988) User Reviews (2)

good movie and great actors

[anish-hyderabad · 8/10 · 16 June 2006]

this movie can be called as a classic tragedy movie.it has good performances from shobhana,karthik and sharath babu.the music is very good (it's by illayaraja).the first 2 songs are the only "happy" songs, the other four are all sad ones.the mood of the film also changes likewise.

In the first half-hour shobhana meets karthik and they fall in love (i must say that this part is as routine as u will get in all movies). but after that the real drama unfolds before us.shobhana has to make a choice between karthik whom she loves dearly and her widowed brother-in-law (sharath babu), as her sister dies suddenly in an accident. so we have three characters who are affected by her decision. the first one, karthik can't take this and he starts drinking to death. sharath babu , on the other hand cannot see shobana as his wife at all.then we have shobhana herself. somayajulu as shobhana's father has also given a good performance one thing i noticed in the movie is that all of the incidents in the movie are connected - there are no loose ends. a must watch for any one who likes to see good cinema.

Breezy romance .

[cohuman · 6/10 · 13 May 2020]

Karthik was a rising star in Telugu in 80s . Later he shifted wholly to Tamil. Wish he had done more in Telugu .He had a big fan following . Both Shobhana and Krathik have great screen presence and chemistry . Both are tall pretty and slim. Shot in green Kodiakanal , Shibhana and Rajalakshmi are twi daughters of wealthy Somayajulu . Rajalakshmi is married to Sarat babu ( who runs a music company ) and comes to her father's house for a holiday . she realises that her sister Shobhana is in love with painter Karthik . Before she could fix her sister's marriage she dies in a freak accident . Though Somayajulu comes to know about Shobhana's relation with Karthik he requests her to marry Sarat Babu for the sake of his two small children. he never forces her . finally Shobhana herself relents later and bids good bye to Karthik. she starts life afresh dedicated toher sister's family . Karthik meanwhile starts wasting away drinking painting singing .Sarat babu realises this story about Karthik much later thanx to a late delivered letter from his wife . He goes in search of Karthik and brings him back home to record his music. when Shobhana and Karthik encounter each other , both try to avoid each other's paths . Finally Sarat Babu eats some poison and lets Karthik and Shobana to live with his kids . Nice hummable songs in lush locales . Shobhana wears skirts and pants initially but later shifts to cotton sarees as a wife . Karthik looks bloated to show his drunk status . Sarat babu is as always dependable , quite and composed all the time . A remake of Mala Sinha's Gumrah with some changes .