About Trivikram by Trivakram:)

My favourite movie director and writer is Trivikram Srinivas. He is a favourite for many Telugu film buffs. Broach his name or any his movies i bet it evokes a chuckle or a "punch dialogue" from his movies. Humour is one of the ingredients of a good film and we all crave for that humorous dialogue or a comical scene when we watch a movie. After all we watch movies for entertainment. But humour is rather difficult too. In many supposedly comedy movies we see jokes falling flat or gives us a nauseating seen-that-heard-that feeling. No wonder inspite of many attempts to make funny or humorous movies only few of them succeed. We love humour that is slapstick and the subtle, neutral or dark humour.
Coming back to the main topic Telugu movie comedy is primarily based on subtelty of the dialogue and originality of the situation. Most of the successful comedies in Telugu were dialogue based and situation based and these are the ones that click. Others leave a bad taste or just fissle away due the lack of originality. Particularly the one of the earliest comedy-film director writer who comes to my mind is Late Jandhyalagaru. He gave us many memorable comedies. His comedies are mostly based on the eccentric and subtle characterisations garnished with the humourous satirical dialogues. But after him there werent many people who could emulate him or create a mark for themselves save an EVV Satyanarayana or an SV.Krishna Reddy. But they tend to be repetetive and the former some what cheesy. The advent of Trivikram on to the scene brought a whole new dimension to dialogue based comedies in Telugu films.
He makes use of the rich vocabularly in telugu mostly colliloquial to create meaningful dialogues that rhyme. Its like listening to a sweet song. At the same time the dialogues which are apt to the situation are rib tickling literally. His dialogues and characters are mostly self deprecating or sarcastic. The characters throw witty reparts at each other. Or the characters make humourous observations with analgies of the situations they are in. He shows that everyone can have a good sense of humour. He started off as a dialogue writer and gave us memorable movies like Nuvve kavali,Nuvvu Naku Nachchav,Manmadhudu,Jai Chiranjeeva, Malleswari,Chirunavvutho.
His dialogues are also laced with wisdom and very pithily told without sounding preachy. Tacit,lucid and concise are the hallmarks of his dialogue writing. He proved that one can give a profound message by using the minimum words without resorting to melodramatical, high pitched utterances. And the way he explains or propounds a situation with analgies is truly commendable. You get a feeling as though you are listening to a wonderful lecture which is being told to the audience in an entertaining way leaving the exposition of the statements and debating to the discerning minds of the audience. You like a movie when the director and the writer respects you as an intelligent individual and does not take you for granted. The point is his dialogues are very logical, amusing and at the same time gives the emotional depth as required by the scene.
No wonder he was the highest paid writer in the industry during his early days and he won consecutive Nandi Awards, which are the highest state awards given to successful and creative cinematic efforts.
When he turned to direction that lucidity and the style of his writing translated into the visuals effectively. He is the dialogue writer for all his directorial ventures. He is just three movies old as a director but each of his works are commendable and highly successful. His first movie as a director is nuvve Nuvve, which tells the tale of a relationship between a father,his daughter and her boyfriend(the hero). Her daughter wants to marry the hero against her fathers wish. The ensuing clashes between him and the gal's father are arresting cinematic experiences. The characterisations were beautifully developed and will always be etched in our memories. The dialogues are as usual laced with humour and the same time the emotional and the crucial dialogues are piercing. The way the hero convinces the heroinne's father is very interesting. The hero's characterisation is truly wonderful. The he handles a situations and reacts to them is eyecatching. A hero need not be bashing up villians and throwing them airborne several feet high rather he should be fighting his opposition with his wits.
Then comes his second movie Athadu. It really propelled him into the zone of exalted directors of Telugu Film Industry. The shots were canned stylishly and as usual the hero's characterisation is truly wonderful. It tells the tale of a professional killer who by fate has to impersonate a dead man and later solves the miseries of the dead man's family and also cracks a murder mystery which might jeopardize his life. Wonderfully played by Mahesh babu who is adept at underplayed dialogue delivery. The way a villain marvels at the hero's bashing up of his henchmen elevates the heroism. The scene is equally humorous without losing the impact. The action scenes are very stylish and i guess it even made the housewives and ladies watch the fights with enthusiasm. He doesnt show much blood and gory rather displays the hero's prowess in a great way. His movies have many powerful scenes and dialogues and the comedy is truly hilarious as is his mark. The third movie that has come in the recent past is JALSA. Another wonderful and successful movie. He completes a hatrick. It is a story of a reformed naxalite who is search for love and about his carefree attitude. The movie starts with showing him as regular compulsive drinker. However the way the narrator(Mahesh Babu again) describes his habit and his propensity to drink on all the 7 days of the week is truly hilarious. During the later half of the story the powerful confrontation scenes between the hero and the villian are wonderful. Ofcourse there are many of his characteristic punch dialogues throughout the film. Regardless of the early bad reviews people wrote its stands as a cute movie which revitalized Pawan kalyan's charm on the silver screen. You will never forget the character Pranav played by Dr.Brahmanandam(I think nowadays they are calling him like that).
And you cannot ignore the way Trivikram shows his women leads in his movies. They appear truly beautiful and angelic and everyone would long for such women in their lives. He shows them as simple and beautiful women without resorting to vulgarity. There is never a vulgar dialogue or a disgusting scene in his movies. Clean movies. I guess every one would agree with me that we wish to have a girlfriend like "Anjali" in Nuvve nuvve, or "Bhagi" in Jalsa, or a playful and childlike cousin(Maradalu) like "Poori" in Athadu.
All his movies which he has written or directed call for an encore. Movies are memorable when they have the repeat value.
I havent mentioned any of famous dialogues. I wish to add a little more on that. But Iwould like the readers to go and see his movies and enjoy them. Great going Trivikram. Looking forward for his upcoming move Varudu starring Mahesh Babu Again.