Cast: - Pawan
Kalyan, Meera Jasmine, Rajan .P Devan, Ashish Vidyarthi,
Sayaji Sinde, Ali, Bramhanandam, Kota, Rami Reddy and
others
Music : - Mani Sarma
Story , Dialouges : Satyanand
Screenplay : Pawan Kalyan
Photography: - Chota K Naidu
Fights: - Alan Amin, Vijay, Stun Shiva
Production : - Naga Babu, Anjana Production
Direction: - Veera Shankar
Date of Theatrical Release : 10 September 2004
Story : Gudumba Shankar (Pawan Kalyan) is a
street smart person who makes a living by fooling other
people. He moves to Hyderabad from Vizag, where he
accidentally meets Gowri (Meera Jasmine) on the highway.
He intially tries to suppress his feelings towards her,
thinking its mere friendship. But realizes its love, and
learns that she had run away from her home as she was
forced to marry Kumara Swami (Ashish Vidyardi) as he
believes a lot in astrology which recommends him to
marry her for riches. Knowing that Swami’s weakness is
astrology, Shankar gets hold of Parabramham (Bramhanandam)
his astrologer and joins his brigade. He enters the
wedding as a ‘wedding planner’ along with pals and
begins to make a fool out of the villain. How he uses
his brain and makes his way through to marital bliss is
rest of the story.
Performances : Pawan Kalyan’s performance in this
film is his best so far. He handled comedy with extreme
ease. He looks handsome, wears good costumes and
entertains the audience with his dialogue delivery,
dances and mannerisms. It’s a tailor-made package for
his fans. Meera Jasmine, the National Award winner gives
in a decent performance while she looks heavy. Ashish
Vidyardi plays the role of a soft villain, while Rajan
P.Devan also has a soft role of a mental patient. There
is no great importance to Sayaji Shinde and Ponnan’s
roles. Ali plays the role of a eunuch while Venu Madhav,
Sunil, Jyothi’s comedy generated ample laughs.
Bramhanandam has a good role of an astrologer.
Technical Department : The story by Satyanand is
below standards. Many sequences in the film are lifted
from popular films and lack proper logic and reasoning.
Expect for the scene where Pawan imitates popular
heroes, the dialogue are just mediocre. Screenplay by
Pawan Kalyan is reasonable good, but it doesn’t get
enough support from the story. Chota K. Naidu’s
photography is just alright, while its good in the
songs. The three fight choreographers tries giving a
realistic look to the fights, but that it isn’t great
either as this a mass, make-believe film. The climax
fight stands out amongst all. The music is one of the
film’s major plusses. The crowds go berserk for the rap
bit in ‘Chitti Nadumune Chustunna’ song, while Killi
Killi and Chilakamma Mukkuki song also evoked a good
response. The choreography by Harish Pai, Raju Sundaram
for their song is good, while Brinda’s work is just
average, as usual. Veera Shankar who debuted with a flop
film, has average directorial skills. His narration
skills are just okay as the love scenes could have been
more convincing, and a wafer-thin story has stretched
for over 2:45 hrs. Editing by Yusuf Khan is bad, as the
scenes were prolonged unnecessarily. One of the reasons
for this could be that, he doesn’t have a command over
telugu language. The production values of Anjana
Productions are high.
Analysis : The first half of the film is just
average, with no major comical situation or songs. The
second is better as there are many good songs, comedy
and entertaining episodes. Since there are 4 villains in
the films, the fights should have had mass orientation.
Kalyan’s amazing screen presence, comedy and music are
the films pros, while slow narration, length is the
drawback. While its no entertainer like Kushi or
Thammudu, it’s not a bad film either. It’s a popcorn
flick made for Pawan Kalyan’s fans. The publicity of the
film is very poor, and instead of projecting it like a
mass film, they makers should project is like an
entertainer. Also the film could be made more
entertaining, by editing a few episodes. Despite the
fact that the publicity is poor, and Pawan’s earlier
film was a disaster, the film opened to mind-blowing
openings. The forthcoming days would tell the film’s
fate at box office.
Courtesy:
Non Stop Cinema |
