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Critic Review
Tarak This film has a message for the youth- not to commit suicide if they fail in their exams or get less percentage of marks. Tarak (Tarak ratna) takes up this mission as he had a bitter experience in his life, when his sister did the same. Tarak is an engineering graduate, but has an ambition to write about problems of youth. He does not want revel his name. He joins a newspaper named Punya Bhommi being run by one Jagdish Prasad (Krishna). Jagdish is thrilled at Tarak's reporting on youth problems, under the fictitious name of 'Taarak'. Tarak rejoins college again to study the problems of the student community. His weekly column becomes immensely popular and the circulation of the paper goes up. This irritates the proprietor of rival daily, JP (Jaya Prakash Reddy). So he wants to recruit 'Taarak' in his paper. But fails to find out the identity of Taarak. Unfortunately, this sub-plot is not given a proper finish.
There is a separate love track as well. Tharak loves Varsha (Sharmili). Once he realizes she is the daughter of his newspaper boss Jagdish Prasad he distance himself. But Varsha fails to understand his behavior. She gives an ultimatum in the form of a newspaper advertisement, that she will disappear from this world if he does not turn up at the college football stadium, where a football final is being held. Tarak notice the advertisement rather late. He rushes to the scene but faces all kinds of cinematic problems like police arresting him for violating rules. At the football stadium Varsha requests the match referee to delay the game.
Does Tarak arrive? Thus the story is two-pronged - one narrating the love story of Tarak and another showing him as a journalist. Both these tracks suffer due to lack of a cohesive story line and professional touch.
There are the usual scenes of college ragging and Varsha chasing Tarak just to pick up a telephone number that she wrote on his palm and Tarak going to the rescues of tenth class student trying to commit suicide. Another scene shows Tarak reprimanding a college lecturer (Benarji) attempting to rape a college student. These and many more scenes are designed only to make the heroine admire Tarak. Shalini, who plays this role, looks chubby and is quite dull - performance wise, sporting blank looks now and then..
The basic point of youth taking quick decisions to go for suicide is a powerful point. The director tried to create an impact of that using the flashback. But the narrative meanders from the basic objective towards the love track between hero and heroine..
The movie's intentions were sacred, aiming at the increasingly suicidal youth. But the execution will definitely not decrease any, to say the least. Tarakratna suffers from the Uday Kiran syndrome - he cannot even spell voice modulation and dialogue deli.
