Pallakilo Pellikoothuru

Love's Labor Lost

Our film directors and producers must be the most optimistic people going around. They are the ones who believe that the audience will lap up any kind of film ----even if they are unabashed and tacky rehashes of some of the popular flicks of the time.

Take Pallakilo Pellikoothuru, the basic story (boy-meets-girl-falls-in-love-but-she-is-already-engaged-but-he-wins-in-the-end) has been hammered into an unbearable cliché recently by all and sundry. It is a sure bet to reduce even terminal insomniacs into sleeping jellies.

So to…