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| Sainikudu | Telugu Reviews | |
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Trisha, Prakash Raj, Irfan Khan
Director:Gunasekhar
Producer:Ashwini Dutt
Camera: Balasubramanian
Visual Effects: Alagar Swamy
Music:Harris Jayraj
Editor: Sreekar Prasad
Art: Ananda Sai
Synopsis
Technical fiesta, sans content
Every frame indicates the amount of energy that has gone beyond it… but alas it all fades into thin air without the proper storyline to support the technical rendezvous. This is Sainikudu, Mahesh Babu’s latest flick that comes after the huge success of Pokiri, Unlike his previous hits, this film fails to keep the audience tagged to their seats.
Sainikudu is yet another example of the technical brilliance that the tollywood boasts off, but all these seem to be waste of time and money since none of them register in the minds of people without the foundation (story) being very weak and collapses even before the first 20 minutes of the film. Still if you want to watch the film, apart from Mahesh Babu’s performance, three other elements – camera of Balasubramanian, visual effects of Alagar Swamy and Art of Ananda Sai – are worth the price.
First things first
The story is very familiar one of the youth trying to weed-out the gonda-politicians in our system (remember Micheal played by Surya in Yuva), and in the end as usual our Prince succeeds to weed-out one such politician.
Siddharth (Mahesh Babu) is a medico studying in Warangal. Warangal city is inundated with floods (sic) and Siddharth, the good Samaritan that he is, goes all out to help and rescue people. Then he encounters the dirty politics played by the politicians while providing relief to the flood victims. He decides to take up the relief operations all by himself (with his gang of friends). This leads him into confrontation with Parakala Purushotam alias Papu Yadav (Irrfan Khan) who is big-time rowdy in Warangal and aspires to become MLA and also Home Minister. Though Siddharth pitches his friend against Papu Yadav in the election, due to the cheap tricks played by Papu Yadav and is brother-in-law Maddi Nani (Prakash Raj) remember Moddu Seenu, they end-up loosing the election and are branded as terrorists. Now the story is old-fashioned revenge seeking young man against the all powerful villain.
Papu Yadav who wins the election becomes the Home Minister (but never in the film does he shows any resemblance of an MLA or a Home Minister) is all set to marry Varalakshmi (Trisha). When he is about to marry Varalakshmi, Siddharth kidnaps her and uses her has the pawn to teach a lesson to the villain. In the process Siddharth and Varalakshmi fall in love (you might have guessed this anyway!) and finally the scene is created in such a way that Maddi Nani develops hatred over his bawa and kills Papu Yadav.
The film lacks a comedy track or any comedy scenes completely. In fact Trisha, Prakash Raj and Telangana Shakuntala are reduced to buffoons and have very mediocre roles to play in the film. Except for one or two dialogues most of them are just passable and do not impress even the front-benchers.
The Music is high-tech. Harris Jayraj seems to have gathered the best of latest software and hardware and tried to recompose the old tunes in these new equipment. Editing seems to have lost in the rush of visual effects. Visual effects used liberally is the best part and one of the saving graces in the film. Along with visual effects, photography of Balasubramanian is a treat to watch and art and sets of warangal by Ananda Sai is creation of an artist and has brought authentic look every frame. Fights composed by Peter Heines has lots of thread work!
Mahesh Babu seems to be very comfortable playing such roles and has done his part for the film, but doesn’t he repeat himself by doing these kind of films. It is time he looks at different scripts that helps in to enhance his image of a good actor. Trisha with her regular hysterics is passable. But it is Irrfan Khan who proves to be a dud in this film. He is completely out of place and his movements and look are all theatrical, over and above the voice used for Irrfan is no match. Prakash Raj is no good and could be used better by the director.
Director Gunashekar – remember Okkadu, Choodalanundi, Sogasu Chooda Tharama, etc – has lost the film even before it took off. Gunashekar has failed in all aspects and needs to break away from the fancy for technical wizardry and concentrate on developing stronger scripts with better story lines.
Verdict: Average
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