Sakuni Movie Review

Watched "Sakuni" today@INOX, LEPL

               Karthik kicks back with another tamil dubbing movie after sometime. His most awaited SAKUNI movie has been in news right from its announcement time. The audio scored by GV Prakash has been liked by a few set of music lovers especially “Manasulo Madhuve” has been a chartbuster and gets through into  top 20 songs. We can know that this is based on politics by seeing the teasers of this movie. Well, let’s see how the movie copes at box office.

Coming to the movie, the movie takes off with Prakash Raj's tif with Chandra Mohan for Political mileage. He 'cashes in', the death of Chandra Mohan and becomes the Chief Minister of the state. Karthik does the role of a common man who comes from a village for the help of CM regarding his house issue with a Rail contract which in turn wants to demolish their ancestral house. Karthi, later finds out that the contract is related to the CM himself. The entire movie is carried by Karthi on his shoulder and he almost appears in the entire footage of the movie.
The movie is entertaining in the first half and the main story starts from the second half of the film. It is about how Karthi takes revenge on Prakash Raj using his ‘Wit’ and Diplomatic ways to reciprocate and win to Prakash Raj’s ill moves in the state politics.

Well, straight to the point...I feel that the movie is Average. There is no story in the first half and the second half has the entire story part but the narration isn’t that gripping and justifies the title to a few extent.

Punch line: Extremely intelligent but devious hero

Highlights:

• Production values of Studio Green (Original Makers) are good and match the necessary values for the script which they opted for.
• Cinematography of  PG Muthiah is good.
• Picturisation of “Manasulo Madhuve” song is eye pleasing.
• Karthi is natural, attractively handsome and acts with ease. His costumes are simple and eye pleasing too.
• Radhika, Roja, Kota Srinivas Rao has done their roles with ease and are apt for their roles.
• Comedian Santhanam's role is entertaining and he balances the movie to a lot of extent as a side kick to the hero.

Lowlights:

• Screenplay could have been better, as the director (Shankar Dayal - a  new comer) misses a few logics while executing a few tiff – riff scenes, as the script is based on Mind games between the Lead hero and the villain.
• First half is entertaining and second half misses the entertaining part and narration misses the logic in a few parts.
• Heroine Pranitha has nothing to do with the second half. I wish she was paid only for the 1^st half (on a humor tone). She totally disappears from the movie from the second half except for two scenes.
• A high caliber artist like Nasser is wasted in the movie with an improper role which is not up to his standards.
• Music is average and songs are misplaced to some extent.

My Suggestion: You can watch this movie once. No hard feelings and is entertaining like any other Karthi movies. But do keep in mind, go with zero expectations.

Well coming to the rating, it is 3/5 (This is my personal opinion on this particular movie - U watch the movie and decide for yourself).

Endukante Premanta Movie Review

Watched Endukante Premanta@INOX Gandhinagar

               After the blasting hit of Darling movie. Karunakaran come with another love story “Endukante Premanta”. The audio has been already successful from day one. Being a Karunakaran’s movie, I had a few pre-defined expectations on this movie.

Well, straight to the point...I feel that the movie is Below Average. The story has a point to it, but the director somehow couldn’t convey his point to the audience. Heard that this movie is a free make of “Just like Heaven”.


Punch line: Endukante heroine Chaavaledu anta.

Highlights:

• Production values of Sravanthi Arts are lavishing.
• Cinematography was good in parts.
• Music was pleasing to ears in Audio, but wasn’t catchy on screen.
• Ram and his dances are good as usual; costumes of Ram need a special mention.
• Performance of Thamanna is good.
• Anu Hassan did her role well.
  

Lowlights:

• Songs aren’t picturized well (which is an asset to Karunakaran in all his previous movies.)
• Songs doesn’t gel with the script and placed improperly and disturb the narration of the script.
• Used of unnecessary Graphics in songs which are not up to the standards these days. The graphic shots are very cheap in their output.
• Editing could have been crispier for such subject. The second half tests the patience of the audience.
• Bramhanandam and Raghu babu are wasted in the movie.
  
  
  

My Suggestion: Endukante premanta movie has a different storyline which isn’t of the regular Telugu cinema format. But the director miserably failed in the narration. You can happily avoid watching this movie.  

Well coming to the rating, it is 2/5 (This is my personal opinion on this particular movie - U watch the movie and decide for yourself).