Outdated movement of film caused boredom

Though the director had rich experience in directing the movies and he himself produced a film earlier, Samudra failed to reach the expectations of the audiences. Despite the fact that his combination with the hero had a big hit like ‘Sivaramaraju’, the haphazard screenplay and outdated movement of the story caused boredom to the audiences in total. At a time, when the audiences are looking for something novel on the screen, a story which had already watched on the Telugu screen with films like ‘Oke Okkadu’ (of Allu Arjun), wherein a common man turns a Chief Minister, sans a gripping screenplay and outdated narration by the director made the audiences sit for almost two and a half hours a little uncomfortably.

Suryanarayana (Jagapatibabu) completes his education and passes time in the village irresponsibly. Suribabu is the close associate of an honest politician called Sriramulu (Paruchuri Gopalakrishna). Noticing that he good at heart, kindness to help and with a temperament to attack anyone who does injustice to others, Sriramulu wants him to bring into politics. All his friends also appeal to Suribabu to jump into politics but he keeps turning a deaf ear. He expresses surprise, when his parents (Chalapati Rao and Annapurna) come to him and pleads with him to arrange a job to Suribabu, instead of agreeing to join him into politics.

Later, he recommends to CM and gets him a job as the personal assistant of the Chief Minister (Ahuti Prasad). Once, Sriramulu warns the CM that he would stage a protest to do justice to a girl who was raped and murdered. But Sriramulu gets killed in a murder plan by the CM. Before dying Sriramulu takes a word from Suribabu that he would join politics. Suribabu jumps into politics and gets elected as an independent. All the elected independents form a group under the leadership of Suribabu. With no other party getting absolute majority, Suribabu becomes the Chief Minister with the support from the ruling party. Suribabu solves many problems faced by people.

After the ousted CM’s plans to impeach Suribabu turn futile, he plans to kill Suribbabu, immediately after his marriage. Unfortunately, Suribabu’s parents and in-laws get killed in the blast. Suribabu decides to take revenge. The MLAs withdraw their support following a plan by the ousted CM and dethrone Suribabu. The ousted CM masterminds a plan and sends Suribabu to jail. However, Suribabu gets bail and launches his own party and announces his manifesto. The main theme of the manifesto is the introduction of a constitutional amendment to recall any politician, who can’t live to the expectations of the people. He announces that a politician is not a leader but a public servant and the people are the real leaders. Thus he gives a new definition to the word called ‘politics’.

PERFORMANCE:

Jagapatibabu excelled in his role as a politician and Chief Minister. His character had different shades as a irresponsible youth, a loving son of a cute family, a lover, a politician and a Chief Minister. He appeared aggressive in some scenes. However, the overall performance of Jagapatibabu is impressive. Other senior artistes like Ahuti Prasad and Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, were good in the roles of politicians. Sivaparvathi had got a relatively important role in this movie. Chalapati Rao, Annapurna and others are okay as the hero’s parents. Though there are two heroines, Shraddha Das and Hamsa Nandini, but they did not have much scope to perform. But, they perfectly filled the glamour slot and shook their legs in a couple of songs. Hamsanandini did her best to expose her beauties, while Shraddha Das got the chance to expose in one song. Though Shraddha Das is the main heroine, more importance appeared to have been given to Hamsa Nandini. Krishna Bhagawan and others who played the hero’s buddies are okay in their roles.

TECHNICAL:

Camera work by Prasadbabu is okay and editing by Nandamuri Hari should have been little more crisp. Music by Srikanth Deva is boring and none of the songs were good to listen and have no good tunes to tap the foot. Action scenes by Different Danny were quite cinematic. Though the director could claim them as stylish picturisation of action scenes, the fights were beyond logic and failed to suit Jagapatibabu. The old type narration, outdated screenplay, unnatural scenes, many episodes beyond nativity made the film boring. Story and dialogues by Paruchuri brothers are okay and some dialogues with political touch got good applause from the audiences. The production values of Sri Sathya Sai Arts are adequate.

ANALYSIS:

The film, being politics on its backdrop, has some dialogues criticising all the parties including Chiranjeevi’s Praja Rajyam. However, Paruchuri Brothers gave a dignified approach in the dialogues without making unjustified comments on any party. The writers’ tried their best to give a new definition to ‘Politics’ should be complimented that there should not be any leaders in politics as they were expected to serve the people and the ultimate ‘king’ is the voter. It was the poor narration and old style direction of the film which made the film boring.

Cast: Jagapatibabu, Shraddha Das, Hamsa Nandini, Ahuti Prasad, Raghunatha Reddy, Paruchuri Gopalakrishna, Anand Raj, Chalapati Rao, Murali Sharma of ‘Atithi’-fame, Krishna Bhagawan, Chitram Sreenu, Prudhvi, Prasanna, Venu, Ajad, Uttej, Annapurna, Sivaparvathi, Neelima and others

Credits: Story and dialogues – Paruchuri Brothers, Music – Srikanth Deva, Camera – Prasadbabu, Editing – Nandamuri Hari, Art – Ramana, Action – Different Danny, Presents – Ravi Sadasivuni, Producer – KK Radhamohan, Screenplay and direction – Samudra V.

Banner: Sri Sathya Sai Arts

Released on: April 24, 2009