Miss You Review: Siddharth's cliched memory loss story falls flat

Direction: N Rajasekhar

Rating: 1.5/5 stars

Popular actor Siddharth, known for his lover boy roles in films like ‘Bommarrilu’ and ‘Hello Friend’ has returned with a unique love story but the treatment is a bit shabby.

Director Rajasekhar presents it as a cliched hero-centric film in which he is unable to control his anger and flexes his muscles a couple of times.

There are some good moments but not good enough to salvage a tedious narration and a few stale jokes.

The hero falls for a pretty girl (Ashika Ranganath) instantly, who is seen protesting on the roads. He pursues her but she declines his proposal. When he goes home and informs his mother that she wants to marry a girl and shows her pictures, his family and friends are surprised. Earlier, he met with an accident, suffered an intermediary memory loss, and has forgotten events that happened in his life in the last two years. Now, the hero is determined to know about his past and wants to find a connection with his lady love.

In between, a minister threatens to kill him, if he doesn’t withdraw the case against his son who has killed a person, but the hero is reluctant.

Later, the hero gets to know that he is married but it isn’t to his liking, and had to undergo a lot of stress and sleepless nights since their wavelengths don’t match.

“Bad marriage is not about violence or illicit affairs, but a couple who are not in sync on many issues and are at loggerheads is also bad marriage,” laments Siddharth to his friends in the film, and interestingly it sums up the story of the film.

The whole film banks on Siddharth marrying a girl on the insistence of his parents but later realizes his folly looks forced. Thereafter, the sequences like changing bed positions, bookshelves, and her early morning devotional prayers are piled up to separate the couple, and her advice to eloped lovers, also looks contrived.

The film begins with goons arriving at the hero’s place and threatening to kill his son (Siddharth) if doesn’t’ withdraw the case against Minister’s son and the family is worried. While the hero is in a coffee estate in Coorg and promises to return home. Unfortunately, he met with an accident and was hospitalized with severe injuries. Although, he survives the major accident, but suffers a memory loss. He consoles a stranger(Karunakaran) who is worked over break up and they become good friends and the hero reaches Bangalore with him. He falls in love with a pretty girl (Ashika) who is an activist and auditor. When he proposes, she rejects it. Will he be able to win her love, forms the rest of the story.

Siddharth is convincing in the role of an angry young man who fails to find compatibility with his wife and impresses in a self-piteous role. Ashika looks pretty and has her moments, while others like Karunakaran, Jayaprakash and Ponvannan are just ok.