Action: Ram-Laxman.
Art: Bhupesh R. Bhupathi.
Banner: Three Angels Studio.
Cinematography: Anil Bandari.
Dialogues: Nagaraju Gandham.
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh.
Music: Mani Sharma.
Producer: Seshu Priyanka Chalasani.
Story, Screenplay & Director: Chaitanya Dantuluri.
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Debutant director Chaitanya Dantuluri uses a fresh face to tell the story set in 1989. Nara Rohit plays the intelligent, level-headed son of a naxalite Sayaji Shinde who aspires to become a police officer. The film is not a poignant or a heart-breaking story, the narration throws up the steely reserve of a young man who surrounds himself in a positive atmosphere, never giving away his confidence, calm, strength and loves the people around him for what they are be it his father whom he refers to is a better person than him or a damsel in distress whom he rescues and becomes her guardian.He wants to follow the system, the law methodically and is rattled only when disturbed. His father who gives up naxalism, picks up a weapon again for the son and dies.
Sayaji Shinde and Rohit as father and son share a very flexible, affectionate, understanding relationship. Vedika lends all the innocence required for the character, is very slim and confines herself to the limitations of the role assigned to her. Rohit definitely has a screen presence shows an intensity and toughness required to be a hero and chooses a film that does not quite show his virtuosity as an actor.
The film has it's limitations, it begins well, builds up seriousness in between but doesn't throw the excitement or punch required towards the end of the film. The hero asks Bhanuchander for a few training officers to set a villain and his surrounding system right but the aura and interest he carefully nurtured from the beginning of the film doesn't sustain post-interval and the film slows a bit.
The director has chosen a sensible subject, with a little more gravitas in the dialogues and focus on the hero the movie would have made a tremendous impact. Rohit is shown as being calm and composed right but even in the scenes where he and his men beat the pulp of the villain who is considered as a problem to the society, he falls short of showing an angry expression. The setting, background, music, characters are in sync with the story, technically convincing too.
There are no loud dialogues that show the conflict between the father and son in their ideologies. Chaitanya is promising as a director, succeeds in conveying a detached seriousness and winds up the film intelligently within a time. As far as the hero is concerned, it's a safe debut but the real test begins when he'll have to smile, joke, and run around trees to be a certified Telugu film hero.
--Cinegoer--
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