Saturday, August 30, 2008

Guruji



Dasari Narayan Rao is a noted producer, who succeeds in every film he produces. Here, he has produced a regular 'masala' movie to launch his son, Arun, who has given a commendable performance in this fairy tale gone sour.
The movie opens with Adi Vishnu (Arun), an IT genius who gets the first rank in IIT. His proud father, retired teacher Srinivas Rao (Kota), wants his son to go to America as a software engineer and Adi, obedient son that he is, wants to fulfil his father's ambitions. With this in mind, father and son travel to Hyderabad to get Adi a passport. Since the Home Minister (Suman) is Srinivas Rao's ex-student they approach him for help.
Anjali (Sneha), the sole witness to a murder, is being chased by the villains who had committed the crime. Luckily, Adi is passing by and he rescues her from Yadagiri's (Pradeep Rawat) and Jakkalamma's (Aishwarya) henchmen. This means that Yadagiri and Jakkalamma are now out to finish him as well.
At this juncture, Yadagiri's son, Rana, who's a bomb specialist, enters the scene and succeeds in his goal of causing chaos with his bomb blasts. Of course, though Adi doesn't realise it, the Home Minister and ACP Ranjit (Jeeva) are also involved. Since Adi has been getting in their way and subverting their nefarious plans, the villains, with the help of the Home Minister and the ACP, frame Adi and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. In a cruel twist of fate, Rana too is nabbed, but it too late for Adi, who has lost his father and budding career.
The main story starts from here with a sensitive portrayal of how Adi copes with the devastation that a bunch of crooks have unthinkingly caused to his life. Is Adi able to win against such thoughtless crime and bring the villains to book, while setting his life back on track? Watch the movie for a gripping climax.
This is a good script but the screenplay could have been racier. The director has presented the story quite well. Srilekha's music is good, capturing the mood of the story at every point. The cinematography captured the grittier side of life in a realistic manner, but the editing is just average.
Arun has done a good job in the fights, song and dance sequences, though he can improve on his voice modulation, expressions and dialogue delivery. His performance in the court scenes is quite gripping.
Sneha is, as usual, the cute girl-next-door, though her fans may not be able to accept her attempts at reinventing her image to be more glamorous.
Pradeep Rawat and Suman have given their usual performances as villains. Aishwarya too gives a good performance.
Venu Madhav and M S. Ali are hilarious enough to please the front-benchers. Kota, Jeeva and Prema have all performed within the scope of the script.
Dasari Narayan Rao has chosen the perfect story for his son as it has all the elements of comedy, romance, fights, songs and drama. With proper publicity, the film will have the mandatory 50-day run that all heroes need to sustain their positions.

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