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Movie Review: S/o Satyamurthy (By Hapra)
By: Tupaki Desk | 9 April 2015 8:35 AM GMT
Movie Review: S/o Satyamurthy (By Hapra)
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast: Allu Arjun, Upendra, Samantha, Rajendra Prasad, Ali, Brahmi and others
Cinematographer: Prasad Murella
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Story-Dialogues-Screenplay-Direction: Trivikram
Producer: S Radakrishna
Release date: 9th April, 2015
Bang on target with “Race Gurram”, Allu Arjun is arriving with huge craze today. At the same time, “Attarintiki Daredi” has amassed heavy expectations on Trivikram too. This “Julayi” combination has now come up with “S/o Satyamurthy”
The CONTENT
Due to sudden death of Satyamurthy (Prakash Raj) his family comes to road and his son Viraj Anand (Allu Arjun) starts taking care of family. Due to ethics and principles Viraj follows which are taught by his father, he loses 300 crores property and starts working as a wedding planner. His father’s friend Paida Sambasiva Rao (Rajendra Prasad) meets him at wedding after Viraj and Paida’s daughter Sameera (Samantha) falls in love. To give Sameera to Viraj in wedding, Paida sets a condition, which makes Viraj encounter Devraj (Upendra), the dreaded goon. How Viraj comes succeeded, without leaving out values, is the rest of story.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Allu Arjun resorted to subtle performance this time rather going over board. As he set the mass-chap characterisation aside, he has limited his comedy timing and antics. But he proves his talent in massive emotional scenes this time. And that imitation of a popular male anchor with the dialogue “Antha Baagodu” is good.
It’s Upendra who steals the show as a bad man with his performance. In one particular scene, he shows cruelty for a second, cuteness for a second and that stuns audiences. For second half, Upendra is a parallel hero with his engaging presence. After him, Rajendra Prasad excels once again, but audiences may not love to see him in a negative shaded role.
Samantha is not as kick-ass as one expects. There is not much of effervescent spark in her character. Nitya Menon’s short role is okay, but not to her level. Adah Sharma is just present, neither excelled nor bad.
Others including Ali, Brahmi, MS Narayana, Prakash Raj and Sneha has limited roles and did their part. But none of them are really pulsating and attention grabbing.
Off-Screen:
Trivikram has extracted the best for the characters he written from his actors. But when there are flaws in the writing itself with unneeded logics and too-much cinematic liberty taking centre stage, there is no way he could get a better output. Too much of sweet tastes uneasy.
Prasad Murella, did decent job for certain scenes with his visual brilliant but he tumbled with some blocks at some places. Not that top-notch cinematography when have seen from him earlier.
Composer Devi Sri Prasad has full let down as some his songs are not so interesting in theatre, while background score is also not as stunning as his previous works. This is not the best of Devi for his brother Trivikram and friend Bunny. Choreography by various masters like Jhonny and Sekhar is just okay. We have seen this mega hero shaking that way many times earlier.
The PLUSES:
Allu Arjun’s characterisation
Emotional dialogues
The MINUSES:
Boring first half
Drifted comedy quotient
Routine and cinematic climax
BREAKDOWN:
After the super success of Attarintiki Daredi, Trivikram might have felt that enough of this feminist drama and then pulled out his Nuvve Nuvve father sentiment trick. What makes it best are his best dialogues, adaptations of Ramayana to modern day and interpretation of other puranams. What makes it worst is that, a star hero with heavy load to carry despite being on a luxury car.
As Viraj Anand starts explaining his story, audiences will understand what interval bang or climax is about. So when Prakash Raj is dead in an accident, Viraj (Bunny) and family comes to roads. But in cinemas, we expect such people to rise like phoenix from the ashes, however Trivikram sticks much to reality and makes him upset. As Viraj gets upset and upset, even audiences get upset. However, when Viraj forget goals and starts romancing a girl at a destination wedding, and suddenly preaches good things and then walks out, it’s too complex and confusing. A simple logical interval bang, that’s not enough really.
And film shifts to Tamilnadu, Devraj gets the adrenaline flowing, but there enters simple Sreenu Vaitla style slapstick comedy with values and ethics sugar coated. A cinematic pre-climax with sudden flash back, and that sounds drastic. And film ends on a sentimental note with villain Devraj giving up and his enemy falling dead. Well, audiences are already feeling sleepy by then.
In the name of ethics and values, Trivikram tried to feed us heavily with something realistic in content, but on a factual note honesty is the only value we should follow. Even Lord Krishna wins war by resorting to cheating and deceiving. However, Trivikram’s hero Viraj Anand don't want to deviate from it and lost his journey midway to boredom. With simply filmed songs, not much of complex twists in the tale, lessened heroism and missing high-drama, S/o Satyamurthy is not a hunger sufficing treat for Summer.
The FINISHING Line: Satyamurthy’s son has values, what about entertaining quotient?
Review By: Hapra
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast: Allu Arjun, Upendra, Samantha, Rajendra Prasad, Ali, Brahmi and others
Cinematographer: Prasad Murella
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Story-Dialogues-Screenplay-Direction: Trivikram
Producer: S Radakrishna
Release date: 9th April, 2015
Bang on target with “Race Gurram”, Allu Arjun is arriving with huge craze today. At the same time, “Attarintiki Daredi” has amassed heavy expectations on Trivikram too. This “Julayi” combination has now come up with “S/o Satyamurthy”
The CONTENT
Due to sudden death of Satyamurthy (Prakash Raj) his family comes to road and his son Viraj Anand (Allu Arjun) starts taking care of family. Due to ethics and principles Viraj follows which are taught by his father, he loses 300 crores property and starts working as a wedding planner. His father’s friend Paida Sambasiva Rao (Rajendra Prasad) meets him at wedding after Viraj and Paida’s daughter Sameera (Samantha) falls in love. To give Sameera to Viraj in wedding, Paida sets a condition, which makes Viraj encounter Devraj (Upendra), the dreaded goon. How Viraj comes succeeded, without leaving out values, is the rest of story.
The EFFORT :
On-Screen:
Allu Arjun resorted to subtle performance this time rather going over board. As he set the mass-chap characterisation aside, he has limited his comedy timing and antics. But he proves his talent in massive emotional scenes this time. And that imitation of a popular male anchor with the dialogue “Antha Baagodu” is good.
It’s Upendra who steals the show as a bad man with his performance. In one particular scene, he shows cruelty for a second, cuteness for a second and that stuns audiences. For second half, Upendra is a parallel hero with his engaging presence. After him, Rajendra Prasad excels once again, but audiences may not love to see him in a negative shaded role.
Samantha is not as kick-ass as one expects. There is not much of effervescent spark in her character. Nitya Menon’s short role is okay, but not to her level. Adah Sharma is just present, neither excelled nor bad.
Others including Ali, Brahmi, MS Narayana, Prakash Raj and Sneha has limited roles and did their part. But none of them are really pulsating and attention grabbing.
Off-Screen:
Trivikram has extracted the best for the characters he written from his actors. But when there are flaws in the writing itself with unneeded logics and too-much cinematic liberty taking centre stage, there is no way he could get a better output. Too much of sweet tastes uneasy.
Prasad Murella, did decent job for certain scenes with his visual brilliant but he tumbled with some blocks at some places. Not that top-notch cinematography when have seen from him earlier.
Composer Devi Sri Prasad has full let down as some his songs are not so interesting in theatre, while background score is also not as stunning as his previous works. This is not the best of Devi for his brother Trivikram and friend Bunny. Choreography by various masters like Jhonny and Sekhar is just okay. We have seen this mega hero shaking that way many times earlier.
The PLUSES:
Allu Arjun’s characterisation
Emotional dialogues
The MINUSES:
Boring first half
Drifted comedy quotient
Routine and cinematic climax
BREAKDOWN:
After the super success of Attarintiki Daredi, Trivikram might have felt that enough of this feminist drama and then pulled out his Nuvve Nuvve father sentiment trick. What makes it best are his best dialogues, adaptations of Ramayana to modern day and interpretation of other puranams. What makes it worst is that, a star hero with heavy load to carry despite being on a luxury car.
As Viraj Anand starts explaining his story, audiences will understand what interval bang or climax is about. So when Prakash Raj is dead in an accident, Viraj (Bunny) and family comes to roads. But in cinemas, we expect such people to rise like phoenix from the ashes, however Trivikram sticks much to reality and makes him upset. As Viraj gets upset and upset, even audiences get upset. However, when Viraj forget goals and starts romancing a girl at a destination wedding, and suddenly preaches good things and then walks out, it’s too complex and confusing. A simple logical interval bang, that’s not enough really.
And film shifts to Tamilnadu, Devraj gets the adrenaline flowing, but there enters simple Sreenu Vaitla style slapstick comedy with values and ethics sugar coated. A cinematic pre-climax with sudden flash back, and that sounds drastic. And film ends on a sentimental note with villain Devraj giving up and his enemy falling dead. Well, audiences are already feeling sleepy by then.
In the name of ethics and values, Trivikram tried to feed us heavily with something realistic in content, but on a factual note honesty is the only value we should follow. Even Lord Krishna wins war by resorting to cheating and deceiving. However, Trivikram’s hero Viraj Anand don't want to deviate from it and lost his journey midway to boredom. With simply filmed songs, not much of complex twists in the tale, lessened heroism and missing high-drama, S/o Satyamurthy is not a hunger sufficing treat for Summer.
The FINISHING Line: Satyamurthy’s son has values, what about entertaining quotient?
Review By: Hapra
