Spoilers ahead…
Rakshit Shetty and Rukmini Vasanth play a fully formed couple right from the beginning. They seem so right together that their union seems a matter of destiny.
In the heart-swelling Sapta Saagaradaache Ello – Side A, director Hemanth M Rao, his co-writer Gundu Shetty, and cinematographer Advaitha Gurumurthy give us a very real love story. Except for a sequence at the end where emotional violence on one side is edited in sync with physical violence on another side, this is a romantic drama where almost nothing is heightened, almost nothing is “cinematic”. Given the title, the colour blue inevitably flows through the film, but in muted shades, in sync with the muted-ness of the moments and the performances. Rakshit Shetty has never been this naive, this open, this vulnerable, this much at the mercy of the fates, and his performance is complemented beautifully by that of Rukmini Vasanth. He plays Manu, she is Priya. She has that connect with the audience only a few special actors have. When she is going home in a bus and pulling away from him, she seems to be saying goodbye to us.
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