RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA: Will Prabhudheva score with a romantic saga?

For Prabhudheva as well, RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA would be an acid test, as
it would be perhaps for the first time that he would be directing a
movie which is not peppered with ample dozes of South Indian style of
action that was catalyst in giving a new lease of life to the acting
careers of Salman Khan through WANTED and to Akshay Kumar through
ROWDY RATHORE while ABCD was a film that had dance as the reference
point, which is the
forte of Prabhudheva.

So along with Girish Kumar and Shruti Hassan there is credibility of
Prabhudheva at stake as well, with RAMAIYYA VASTAVAIYA and it indeed
would be a real challenge for Prabhudheva to deconstruct himself
before his fans in the world of Hindi cinema and carve a niche as a
director who can also create romantic sagas as well.

The film industry believes in totems and one of the totems associated
with Prabhudheva, it may be accepted or not accepted, is the fact that
his numbers on the screen, be it in the form of item songs or as a
song become a roaring hit and they ensure the footfall from the
audience, be it ABCD, or OH, MY GOD!, or WANTED, or ROWDY RATHORE the
dance numbers that he enacts on the screen for his films, turn out to
be the talking point. In case of RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA as well it is
'Jadoo Ki Jhappi' which has started making waves and Prabhudheva has
ensured that this item number would bring in footfalls.

As a matter of fact Prabhudheva would be one of the those rare
directors who is one of the most successful male item number dancer as
well, be it 'Govinda' from OH MY GOD, 'Chinta Chinta' from ROWDY
RATHORE or 'Jadoo Ki Jhappi' from RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA and his item
numbers bring in footfalls which no other director perhaps is able to ensure.