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Namo Venkatesha - Movie Review
(Courtesy: Idlebrain.Com)
Story
Venkata Ramana (Venkatesh) is a ventriloquist. He goes along with the troop
of artists to perform for a local Telugu association in Europe. Paris Prasad
(Brahmanandam) is a tour organizer in Europe. He enjoys making people around
bakras. Pooja (Trisha) is the niece of Prasad. Venkata Ramana falls in love
with her. Prasad realises that only way to make Ramana bakra is to tell him
that Pooja loves him too. Pooja is the daughter of a rich factionist in Rayalaseema
and she is forced to return back in the middle. Her marriage is fixed with a
guy she doesn’t like. The rest of the story is all about how Prasad conspires
with Ramana to rescue Pooja.
Artists Performance
It’s a cake walk for Venkatesh to do such a fine comedy performance.
He looks good and performs very well in the only emotional scene in the climax.
Trisha is nice. Brahmanandam is pretty good as a guy who loves fooling around
with the people. Ali is entertaining in a brief role. MS Narayana’s jyotishyam
episode is nice. It’s a routine role for Subbaraju. Jaya Prakash Reddy,
Dharmavarapu, Kota and Telangana Sakuntala are adequate. Master Bharath’s
character is not hilarious as it is supposed to be a positive character helping
hero.
Technical departments
Story: There is no freshness in the story and entire story
runs on deja vu. We have seen innumerous movies (Sankham, Jayeebhava, Saleem
to name a few in the last few months) in the past where the half of the film
happens in the abroad and the other half shifts to Rayalaseema. Our story writers
are still stuck in DDLJ hangover where hero comes from abroad to stay in heroine’s
place. The idea of hero planning to start a factory by partnering with the family
of heroine is also inspired by DDLJ. Venkatesh has done similar climaxes in
three films after year 2000 (Nuvvu Naku Nachav, Vasantham, Adavari Matalaku
Ardhalu Verule) where heroine who is about to get married to another guy changes
her heart in the last minute.
Screenplay - direction: Screenplay of the movie is good in
parts. Seenu Vytla who mastered the art of entertainment made sure that he had
lots of entertaining scene in the movie. However, most of them are already done
by him in movies like Dhee and Ready. Irrespective of how many number of times
he directs drinking scenes in his movies, Seenu Vytla makes sure that he entertains
each of the time in a refreshing way. The way Venkatesh dances to tunes of other
heroes and beats Brahmanandam up by remembering his enemies is good. I also
like the creative idea of changing the tunes in the background when Venkatesh
and Ali aim for Trisha (Emaindi Ee vela and aashique banaya). We expect a lot
from Brahmanandam character in Seenu Vytla movies. In the earlier movies of
Seenu Vytla, heroes make Brahmanandam a bakra and audiences loved it. However,
in this movie Brahmanandam makes hero bakra most of the times. Hence the desired
effect is missing on the Brahmanandam character in this movie compared to earlier
Seenu Vytla’s movies. Screenplay of the movie becomes disengaged towards
latter part of the second half.
Other departments: Music by Devi Sri Prasad is adequate with
the title song being peppy. Picturization of the songs is very good. Cinematography
by Prasad Murella deserves a special applause as the visuals are shot beautifully.
The virgin locations chosen for shooting of songs are excellent. Diaogues by
Ramana Chintapally are nice. Production values by the new production house ’14
Reels Entertainment’ are very good. A lot of care is taking in postproduction
activities as well.
Analysis: First half of the movie is entertaining. The second
half becomes little lengthy and predictable. The plus points of the movie are
Venkatesh’s performance and Seenu Vytla’s entertainment orientation.
On the flipside, a novel screenplay (as most of the screenplay resembles that
of Ready and Dhee) in the second half would have given fresh feel to the movie.
We have to wait and see how it works at box office.
Tailpiece: Venkatesh has always been a producer’s hero.
Not many people know that Venkatesh suffered with chikungunya towards the end
of the shoot of this movie. He had to dance for Namo Venkatesa title song and
Bangkok song despite of the pains because they had to release the movie for
Sankranthi. If you look at Venkatesh in these songs, you realise that he looks
fresh and happy. That’s why Venkatesh is called as the producer’s
hero.
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