Swagatam

KK (Jagapati Babu) is a principled businessman who wants a perfect wife. He meets the match maker Vidya (Bhumika Chawla). Even while searching a right girl for KK, she herself falls in to love with him. And they get married and suddenly some incidents take place forcing KK to leave for the USA along with his daughter. There he meets Sailu (Anushka) who is distressed due to personal and financial problems. The rest of the story is all about the connection between KK and Sailu and what happened to Vidya.

Story - screenplay - direction: Story of the film is little complicated and has a potential winner in it. The USA backdrop part of the film reminds us a bit of Kal Ho Na Ho. Car crash aspect seems to have been taken from 'An unfinished life'. Dasarath handled the budding love and relationship between Jagapati Babu and Bhumika in an entertaining and soulful way. But he could not get the thing right in the first half that handles with the depressed Anushka and enigmatic Jagapati Babu.

Analysis: First half of the film is very slow and mediocre. The flashback episode which almost spans for one hour in the second half is good. The plus points of the film are Jagapati Babu, Bhumika Chawla and the (entertainment + emotion in) flashback episode. The negative point is the first half. Jagapati Babu who is known as the successor of Sobhan Babu in attracting family crowds would not find it difficult to make the Swagatam film a minimum guarantee one.