Film: Pourudu
Rating: 2.75/5
Cast: Sumanth, Kaajal, Suman, Nazar, Kota etc
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja
Choreography: Prem Rakshit
Music: Mani Sharma
Producer: D Supriya
Direction: Raj Aditya
Released On 13 Jan 2008
Story:
Ajay (Sumanth) is the son of Paandu (Suman), a goonda. Ajay is away from all sorts of crimes unlike his father and qualifies for Civil Services. He gets call for attending the interview. Paandu works at Zakir Bhai (Nazar) and he is very loyal to his master.
Kaasi (Kota) is another goonda who is against to Bhai for sometime and works in his favor for other time. Ajay loves a girl called Samyukta (Kaajal).
Bhai and Kaasi betray Paandu and kills. Finally how Ajay takes revenge on Bhai and Kaasi is the story. Climax goes with a drama among Bhai, Ajay, Kaasi and the police officer Hussain (Subba Raju).
Performances:
Sumanth performed well with respect to expressions and other histrionics. But the punch that is required for action films is missing in him as usual. Kaajal looked cute and lovely. She has no direct relevance with the story but used for glamour and romance on screen.
Subba Raju tried to showcase his talent as he is given a lengthy role this time. Suman did well as a loving father. Others are ok in their shoes. Comedy is weak and the comedians couldn’t tickle well.
Director Raj Aditya has to work on the aspects of screenplay and scene composition. Music is ok and the dialogues are not up to the mark.
Analysis:
Weak screenplay, dull dialogues, poor editing and average story line made the movie ‘Pourudu’. The conviction in drama proved weak due to feeble narration. It counts to be another dud in the filmography of Sumanth. It established once again that mass and action flicks are not working on him. People once again started saying that Sumanth fits only for class and sentimental touching roles. Th reason is again the narration part. The purpose of the movie is not seen at all. It could neither hold social consciousness nor pushed up the adrenaline of audiences with proper drama.
First half of the movie goes dull. The initial 30 minutes of the movie is only used for dragging the length of the movie to desired extent. Second half of the movie is filled with beaten track action episodes. Climax appears to have a twist but that has no weight in tune with conviction (Police Officer giving his weapon to a goonda is something too dramatic).
The comedy track weak. Some nasty comedy with Ali, MS Narayana and Brahmanandam didn’t work well. Dharmavarapu’s comedy is also weedy. The dialogues by Marudhuri Raja are also pale and the editing part by Marthand is frail. There is no proper sink between scene and scene. It appears as if things did in hurry on a whole.
To sum up, ‘Pourudu’ is a normal flick with little boredom and more beaten track narration.
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