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Few comic sequences
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BGM
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ART work
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Forced Comedy Sequences
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Unnecessary Songs
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No proper arc for characterizations
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Editing
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Dragged Narration
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Awful developments
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Dialogues
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Screenplay by Kona Venkat
Bottom Line: Sankarabharam is an inexcusably bad remake.
Story
Sankarabharam story of
an NRI Goutham (Nikhil) who lives with his family in, America and his
family is verge of bankruptcy. At this time his mother (Sitara) tells
about Sankarabharanam palace and to prevent his family from being
bankrupt, Goutham leaves to India. Soon after arrival he is been
kidnapped and then after series of events, an ambit of Kidnappers and
the NRI gets mixed up in a stew that keeps passing hands from Sanjay
Mishra and Anjali. Here starts a crazy ride of kidnapping leaving
everyone involved in it befuddled.
Star Performance
It’s Nikhil Siddhartha’s
show all the way who carries the film on his potent shoulders. But its
one of the worst scripts Nikhil has signed in recent times. Nandini Raj
delivers what’s expected of her. Moments of love and charming together
moments between Nikhil and Nanditha are quite absent in the film. Suman
and Sitara are fine in their respective roles. Anjali is adequate in her
role as female goon Daaku Rani Munni. A battalion of comedians like
Sapthagiri, Prudhvi, Sathyam Rajesh, Harsha, Sanjay Mishra, Shakalaka
Shankar try hard to evoke laughter, even the jokes falls flat most of
the time. The introduction scenes of Sapthagiri and Prudvi are the
funniest sequences of the whole movie. The situation look regular and
predictable, which makes you squirm in your seat. From the supporting
list of actors Rao Ramesh and Sampath Kumar deserve a special mention.
Techinical Team
Sankarabharanam had a small tale to tell. While
it’s an official remake of 2010 Bollywood Hit Phas Gaye Obama, from
then there have been several films of late that have been made in Telugu
cinema with this kind of situations. What completely lacks in this
remake are emotions, fun and novelty in terms of the story and
characterization. Even if we delve deeper seeking logic, then film could
be even disappointing as the script is loaded with plot holes that
range from daft to the bootless. Poor champ Debutant Uday has been
completely taken off from his responsibilities as
Story-Screenplay-Dialogues and Direction Supervision is handled by
commercial writer Kona Venkat and at every juncture he failed to reach
the standards of the original. The weaker developments in the
screenplay, puts the film on the boring side. The comedy and punch lines
are forced into the scenes, no matter how hard characters try to make
us laugh they completely fail. The writer does succeed to pull out a few
giggles once in a while with some of his comic lines though.
Coming
to other technicalities, Music composed by Praveen is not as exciting
as the BGM. Songs and comedy are forced into the narration, which
actually spoils the tempo of the film. Cinematography by Sai Sriram is
good. The editing of the film is choppy and the transition between the
scenes are quite abrupt sometimes. Trimming few songs and few forced
comedy sequences could have sustained the pace. Art Work by Chinna
deserves a special mention for the special sets. The production values
of “MVV” cinema are alright.
Analysis
In an Industry where silly
comedy sells better than anything else, Kona Venkat has become the first
preference. Sankarabharanam is another comedy entertainer from the
commercial writer of Telugu Cinema with debutant director Uday
Nandanavanam. It’s an official remake of Phas Gaye Obama (2010). What
worked for Phas Gaye Obama are the original content, short runtime,
slapstick comedy and honest performances. But this remake completely
failed to match the standards of the original. It fails to evoke
laughter with formulaic comedy and situations seen in many films in the
past. By trying to create funny situational comedy the debutant director
completely lost grip on the story that goes haywire from the word go.
To summarize, Sankarabharam includes a pinch of comedy, a splash of
craziness and a big gang to promising actors. If you thing they all have
made Sankarabharanam a worth watch, then you are wrong.
Cast & Crew
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Star Cast :
Nikhil,
Nanditha,
Anjali
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Producer :
Kona Venkat
- Director :
Uday Nandanavanam
- Music :
Praveen Lakkaraju
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Released on:
4-12-2015
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