However, when he meets her the following day, she humiliatingly rebuffs him. There he runs into Satyabhama (Bhumika), who he charms with his smooth-talking and wins another date with just the next day. Krishna (Sivaji) is a sand-sculptor who wins a contract from the Department of Tourism to work on the beaches of Goa. What don’t work for it, however, are a rather bland narration and presentation, a B-list starcast, and plenty of gaps of logic – you know, where you start off innumerable times with “why don’t they just…” All these work together to make a promising film quite ordinary. Which is to its credit, since you’d have assumed that the ending would’ve been Tollywoodized for easy consumption by Telugu audiences. Satyabhama stays faithful to its original almost to the point of hero-worshipping perfectionism, right to the ending. So when Sandler falls in love with her, he has to court her afresh each day. Satyabhama is a quick-and-dirty, no-frills remake of 50 First Dates (starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore), which was an innovative and perceptive tale of a girl who has short-term memory loss disorder – each day when she wakes up, she’s forgotten everything that happened the previous day.
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