Athi I Love You

Athi I Love You is a Kannada film written and directed by Lokendra Surya and starring Lokendra Surya and Shravya Rao. Ananth Aryan is the music director, with the sound and music being supervised by Sevenraj.

The movie takes place over one day, inside one house. What makes it is its exploration of sexual moments between the husband and wife characters — in particular those that tell us more about their complicated marriage.

Overview

Direction

Juggling his hats as both director and lead actor, Lokendra Surya brings heart into his depiction of love. He doesn’t let it get complicated and stays with a straight-forward narrative that is more about feelings than drama.

As a director, Surya maintains a leisurely pace of the proceedings, and lets the love to blossom on its own. His method also insures that the film is grounded and warm — as if the story is happening right in your own neighborhood.

Lead Cast

Lokendra Surya as the endearing, naive lover ready to jump in with all his heart for his lady love. His performance has an air of authenticity, sweet and awkward the way first love often is.

Shravya Rao brings a certain amount of elegance and confidence to her character and the on-screen chemistry feels new and cute.

Together, the two make for an adorable and realistic love story that keeps audiences smiling.

Music

A good love story always has its soul in music and Ananth Aryan has got some of nice songs for the film. Connected to the story and help enhancing romance as well as emotional moments; songs are to the point, melodious, light.

Be it in the feel-good romantic songs or the emotional background music, it’s Aryan’s music that gives the film its pulse.

Production

Sevenraj has produced the movie. The star has however tried to stay away from high budgets and lavish sets. Rather, it remains delightfully itself, character-driven, heart-felt emotions and all. And the production comes across like an intimate affair, which makes it easier for the audience to relate to the characters.

Athi I Love You Story

Touch wood, Vasantha would normally get up veyirnu kiri vaithu in the morning. When the early morning sun comes creeping in through his windows, slipping between the blinds, it is there to nudge him from bed and send him on his way to work — athira, the wife of Vasantha, sleeps a bit longer with the sun rising above one man, but not another.

When Vasantha comes back home early, she can smell something wrong: the setting is peculiar, there is a stress factor present that she had not felt before. Attuned to the subtleties of his home, Vasantha starts to reconstruct this odd atmosphere.

Review

There’s a stunning, 11-minute single take, beautifully executed and meticulously mapped out by its film crew, that can be found in the film. Prep work was implementing different lighting angles throughout the house and choreographed camera movements, behind which the team managed to find what they are and even come up with more than people had hoped for.

Ananth Aryan’s music gives a dimension and soul to “Athi I Love You” which will remain etched in your memory circuits as a perfect visual statement. It is more than a movie, It’s an experiment with relationships, It’s a one day story set in a single house.

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