
You laugh when Naresh or Sudheer Babu takes a dig at whatever is of inferior quality about Telugu cinema. You allow yourself to be romanced by seemingly little moments. Thanks to these traits, you don't wait for any big moment in the story to arrive at least in the first half. The biggest strength of 'Sammohanam' lies in the fact that its characters are strongly-etched, they have a thinking process, they respect their world, and they are so expressive. The rest of the story is about how he copes with the aftermath, what ails Sameera's personal life, and what follows when she takes a stunning decision out of helplessness. But when he goes to Manali to confess to her, Vijay discovers that Sameera never had any feelings for him. This is when Vijay realizes that he is in love with Sameera. It's separation time when the unit has to pack up. When he starts coaching the Hindi-speaking Sameera in Telugu, a bond (predictably) develops between them. Thanks to his father's (played by Naresh) passion for acting, he ends up meeting film actress Sameera Rathod (played by Aditi Rao Hydari) when their house is lent for shooting. Vijay (Sudheer Babu) is a children's book illustrator who eschews the "artificial" world of cinema. 'Sammohanam', starring Sudheer Babu and Aditi Rao Hydari in the lead, hit the screens this Friday.
