Rating: 3/5
Banner: Lakshmi Narasimha Entertainments
Cast: Nikhil, Swathi, Pooja, Chanti, Ravi Babu, Jeeva, Jogi Brothers and others
Music: Sunny M R
Cinematographer: Richard Prasad
Editor: S R Shekhar
Story, screenplay, dialogues, direction: Sudhir Varma
Producer: Chigurupati Chakri
Release date: 23/03/2013
‘Happy Day’s fame Nikhil who has been working his way up the ladder has teamed up with Colors Swathi for a new entertainer with a new team. Whether it was good enough, let us see
Story
Surya (Nikhil) is a pickpocket and he works with his gang (Pooja, Chanti) like a professional. One incident gets Surya to come across Swathi (Swathi) an innocent and cute girl and he falls in love with her. But Swathi doesn’t know Surya’s background.
Meanwhile, an idol which gets stolen from Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala changes hands and finally lands in the hands of Surya. This is being chased by the notorious Shankar (Ravi Babu).
How that idol came to Surya and what happens after that forms the rest of the story.
Performances:
Nikhil gave a contained performance and unlike his previous flicks where he goes overboard with his body language trying to be a mass hero, he played very sensibly and showed maturity.
Swathi is cute as usual and though her role was subdued she ensured that she made her presence felt wherever possible. She also entertained with her trade mark punches leaving audiences on the roads of laughs.
Pooja is there in almost all scenes and she has sex appeal written all over her face and body. She has done a decent job in acting and if she can plan her moves carefully she can groom her career.
Chanti did his bit as required, Ravi Babu was adequate, Praveen was up to the mark, Jeeva was standard; Bhanu Avirineni (one of the ace film publicity designers ‘Anil and Bhanu’) was a surprise package. He has revealed an actor in him so he can do more onscreen; Jogi Brothers were very brief but good. Others contributed effectively.
Highlights
- Screenplay
- Artist performances
- Background score
- Cinematography
- Concept
Drawbacks:
- Clichéd Pre-Climax
- Slow pace in few scenes
Analysis
‘Swamy Rara’ reminds the following films to the audience:
- Kshana Kshanam (money factor)
- Anaganaga oka Roju (pre climax confusion in dog house)
- Govinda Govinda (divine idol factor)
- Donga-Donga (chasing sequences)
The talk about a new era of filmmakers entering Tollywood has been on and true to that, there have been a series of debut attempts happening. But most of them have been focusing only on hitting marks at the box office and not hesitating to use any form of adulterated content and ‘Boothu’ formulae. However, it looks like there are those men who have a passion for the craft and believe that good content will always get good quantity of audience.
This director seems to belong to that school. Right from the first scene to the end of the film, he has done his homework properly and his visualization of the story, the shot division, scene composition and extracting performance from the actors has been very professional.
Most importantly, the entire film has been shot in and around Hyderabad which only goes to show how he has budgeted the film in an optimum manner. This is what we call a true wave of new age filmmaker. Ideally, the plot is serious but the director had the ability to depict it with less burden and more entertainment.
This light hearted approach was well supported by the technicians especially the music department and cinematography. The film takes off pleasantly and as it progresses it gets the audience involved into it.
The interval bang was interesting and the second half faltered in the pace but it picked up at many places. This film has shown that if one can think of a good subject, associate with a good team and project it with right eye for sharp and subtle narration then the product is going to be fruitful.
Bottomline: Sensibly narrated entertaining tale
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