Film: Nagaram
Rating: 2/5
Cast: Srikanth, Jagapathi Babu, Kaveri Jha, Pradeep Rawat, Bhuwaneshwari, Ali, Brahmanandam etc
Dialogue, Screenplay: Swamiji, Vijay
Lyrics: Veturi, Bhuwanachandra, Bhaskarabhatla
Art: Srinivasa Raju
Choreography: Ashok Raj
Stunts: Ram-Laxman
Background: Gopichand
Camera: Sarath
Music: Chakry
Producers: Kishore Babu
Director: CC Srinivas
Release Date: 7TH March 2008
Story:
Right (Srikanth) is a hooligan in a city. VJ Choudary (Jagapathi Babu) is an ACP. Obviously, Right is a good goonda, as he is the hero. VJ Choudary takes law and order completely in his hand and keeps on killing every criminal publicly without sending him to court. A college girl (Kaveri Jha), out of the blue, comes to do research on the lives of goondas. She joins with Right and his gang!!!!!!!!!!!! She aims at bringing in moral change in Right. She teaches them morality and makes them start a marriage bureau business. The marriage bureau is not a normal one but dedicated for ‘remarriages’….The story goes on in this style.
On parallel track Kaasim Bhai (Pradeep Rawat) is a gangster who develops a tug with Right. Finally how Right puts an end to Kaasim Bhai and how Choudary plucks out black sheep in his department are the climax.
This is the outline of the movie. There are ample elements to be added for this to make it a sensible movie. But unfortunately, the celluloid was wasted by making movie with this outline itself.
Performances:
As the narration turned dull, the performances are not elevated. But within the ground, Jagapathi Babu looked fresh and young. Srikanth is also ok. There is nothing special to say about anyone. Although there are many comedians, no big laughs are spilled in theaters. Kaveri Jha is ok but her role is little. She sizzled a bit in a water-song.
There is an item song by Manisha Koirala that didn’t raise much interest among audiences. It was watched like any other item song by any other item babe.
Chakry’s music didn’t work well. The interlude in the style of ‘Oho Basti Dorasani…’ is also cacophonous. Cinematography can be considered good to some extent. Fights by Ram-Laxman are over dosed, especially in the climax. They should use right fight at right degree for right film in right manner. Otherwise, even the most difficult stunt scene becomes a laughing stock. Background score is also not in tune with the narration. CC Srinivas, the director needs to toil a lot to make a better movie.
Analysis:
Story writing, stage drama, TV serial and movie- every creative aspect holds its own style. The parameters are to be measured before making anything. This movie appears to be made just by assuming story. The parameters of film making are not measured. The idea is not clear. Proper homework was not done to make the movie sensible with scenes those hold better impact. Hence the audiences breathe heavily while watching the film. They take many intervals to get relief and breathe fresh air. That happened for this movie.
What is the purpose of heroine in this movie? Her need is not felt. Why Jagapathi Babu is hired for such a normal role? Anybody can do that role. That needn’t require an actor with stardom. What is the purpose of Kalabhavan Mani? Well, may be for a change. Why there is sudden change in the story with the introduction of ‘Mallee Pelli Bureau’? Well, no purpose is observed other than making little room for comedy- with the guest roles of Ali, Brahmanandam, Gundu Hanumantha rao et al. But nothing worked well. Many things are ambiguous.
Both first half and second half are not so active. The climax stunt is irresistibly wild. People simply laughed at that Matrix-style stunt. Is that necessary? The efforts kept on that Matrix fight would have been transformed towards penning better screenplay. To sum up, there is a dialogue through Jagapathi Babu in this movie- “Naaku vyavasayam antey istam. Samajam manchi kosam Kalupu mokkalni eri paresthanu”. In similar way, ‘for the well being of Tollywood and Telugu films, the films of this sort are to be kept under criticism. Well it needn’t be plucked out’.
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