Sai and Shujath talk Cinema

After exceedingly dreadful movies like Naa Alludu and Narasimhudu, NTR teams up with director Surendar (Athanokkade) for this movie. Compared to those disasters, this movie is so much better. Surendar shows once again that he has style as a director but his screenplay based on a story by Vakkantham Vamsi falls short. The story is mundane (thankfully it is not based on faction feuds) and the screenplay is quite predictable. Ashok is an angry young man that unknowingly gets into a fight with the brother of a goon turned politician. Meanwhile, the goon falls in love with Ashok’s girl. In another subplot, Ashok is sent away from home by his father. The movie is an intertwining of all these threads.

This movie could have been very uninteresting. However, Surendar makes it interesting with his narration. He makes good use of short flashbacks in the movie to make otherwise dull scenes more exciting. However, he overdoes it and you see it coming after a while. The love story is dealt with in a hurry and is very humdrum. There isn’t much humor in this movie and what is has isn’t very funny. Quite a lot of money was spent on the chase sequence before the interval. The chase was canned well but the destroyed vehicles didn’t create as much impact as I would have imagined.

NTR plays a role that maintains his image but doesn’t require him to mouth powerful dialogues every couple of minutes. His quest for success is still on. To achieve the elusive hit, I believe he needs to move away from violent films that are created just for him and fit into ones that are made with the intention of making a good (or at least a successful) film. Hopefully, he does better with Krishna Vamsi’s latest flick Rakhi. Sameera Reddy doesn’t get much to do and she isn’t too impressive. Her dances also aren’t appealing. Sonu Sood plays the main villain and he is fine but is wasted. The supporting cast includes capable actors like Prakash Raj and Rajiv Kanakala.

The action (Stun Siva) in this film does have a few people flying but is much better than most recent movies. Mani Sarma’s soundtrack has a few catchy numbers. One does miss a good background theme from him in this movie. Only a couple of songs in the movie have scope for being good dance numbers (Gola Gola and Nuvvasalu Nachhale). Though I enjoyed the dances, they seem to be variations of what NTR has done in his previous films.

The appealing parts in the movie for me were Surendar’s direction, NTR’s dances and to an extent Mani Sarma’s music. NTR fans might be happy to watch this considering his recent movies. This movie isn’t a disaster but isn’t one that you can’t miss either.