Trisha Krishnan

STARRING : Mahesh, Trisha,Prakashraj,Irfan Khan,Kota Srinivasa Rao..etc

MUSIC : Harris Jayaraj
DIRECTOR : Gunashekar

RELEASE DATE : 30th November 2006

Average

If you want to know the story first, it can be narrated in two sentences. A student leader by name Siddharth (Mahesh) launches a tirade against the present day politicians and demands that the nation should be handed over to the youth, who will sure cleanse it of all sorts of corruption and Rowdism and gondas and give people clean administration. For that purpose he kidnaps the bride Mahalakshmi (Trisha) who was about to be married to the Home minister, Pappu Yadav, and blackmails the minister to undo all the wrongs he has done to his people if he wanted his bride back.

The rest shows how the Home minister responds positively. Yet Siddharth refuses to return the bride as he wanted him to confess before the court all the crimes he committed. And the funniest part is the way the heroine shifts her stance from becoming the wife of her childhood friend and lover Pappu Yadav to become the lover of the young man Siddharth who abducted her after he teaches what love really means. He also reveals to her what kind of sins her lover and fiancé had already committed. This is the entire central theme.

Coming to the picturization part, director Guna Sekhar once again displays his penchant for gaudy and awesome sets erected with high cost. The film has many sets, including a huge wooden bridge like the ‘Bridge of the river Quoire’ though not of that standard. The drama he shows on the long bridge looks very artificial. It is meant to bring down the hero along with the structure. But that stops by the time the it reaches the heroine Mahalakshmi also standing on the same bridge, but a bit away from him. The drama is set against the ruins of the Orugallu of Kakatiya Dynasty. Why that type of back drop is chosen in not answered except that we find a name of Gona Ganna Reddi on one of the autos that carries the hero and heroine.

It is supposed to be mostly political drama. But what we see is a series of fights between Siddhartha and the men behind the home minister. Peter Heins set a trend of fights in which the hero never gets hurt, while his victims in dozens get all the blows from the hero and fly into the air like feather weights. Here he added one more technique.

The blow the goonda receives from the hero will reduce him become permanently disabled. Siddartha and his friends go under ground because the home minister names them as terrorists. That may be the reason he preferred Orugallu ruins as backdrop for their underground life, along with Mahalakshmi, whom he kidnapped. For sometime he lives over a forest hill.

Performances:

The character of Mahalakshmi is no better. Trisha playing Mahalakshmi behaves herself as a fool. The dialogue written for her by the twin writers Paruchuri brothers also sounds that way. For some time she is forced to keep her mouth shut with a bandage he slapped across the mouth of the girl.

Maheshbabu as Siddartha gets a load of sentences that carry the film’s message of what the type of country the youth want. At times, there are heavy crowd scenes – some times with large number of people complaining against the administration and sometimes the whole university students behind him.

Kota Srinivasa Rao gets the role of Chief Minister of no consequence. In fact his role looks as he is a guest artist in the whole drama. Irfan Khan as the chief villain is no match to the hero.

Music is quite heavy. Some songs are artificially placed, irrelevant to the scene. There is nothing much in the musical part to glow over this contribution. The audience reacts only for one song – an item song. For a change this item song is extended into a violent scene that follows. The first half of the drama is as stale as sugarcane sans juice. The little drama that is available in the second part depends more on the many feats the hero does in saving himself and his girl Mahalakshmi. The impact of the film is average, mainly because of confusing political drama, as if there is no government at all in the entire drama. Telangana Sakuntala plays a jailor and later taken into the service of the Home Minister. There is no relief in the film as the director never wanted to introduce comedy. The title given to the film also lacks sense

– Pallavi
source:andhravilas

Telugu film industry is second to none in using the most advanced technology. The films produced by Tollywood producers use sophisticated equipment, whether it is camera or equipment in the laboratory.
Guna Sekhar is known for employing lavish sets in his films and ‘Sainikudu’ cannot be an exception to it. Producer C Aswini Dutt is already very popular as a maker of heavy budget films. He never compromises on the quality and in erecting huge sets. The audiences cannot forget the Meenakshi Temple set erected for one of his films.
Now, for his latest film ‘Sainikudu’ he has spent money lavishly on a big village set for the flood shot, the Warangal Fort and other architecture sets and the specially erected bridge with sticks. The film has been shot with a very expensive Super 35 digital camera and the colour grading of some scenes and the songs were made by using Hollywood technology. The Digital Intermediate technology was used for certain scenes in colour grading and at the same time, the work was entrusted to an expert who worked for ‘Lord of Rings’ and other Hollywood films, from Germany. The Arriscan technology by Utsi has made all the difference and it has given a new experience to the audiences.

Siddhartha (Mahesh Babu) is a medical college student. He and his friends believe in serving the society like soldiers. They come across a goonda-turned- politician Pappu Yadav (Irfan Khan), who is robbing the society. Siddhartha decides to teach him a lesson and abducts his bride Varalakshmi (Trisha) when his marriage is about to take place. Siddhartha starts blackmailing Pappu and gets all the promises made in elections fulfilled. Siddhartha also proves how bad a guy Pappu is and how he implicated him and his friends in a blast case, with the help of his brother-in-law Mondi Nani and Varalakshmi. The film ends with Mondi Nani killing Pappu as the latter ditched him and tried to kill him.

Mahesh Babu has done complete justice to his role and Trisha looks pretty and has come up with a good performance. Debutant villain Irfan Khan has also performed neatly. The dubbing though, lacks the punch and power. Prakash Raj plays another villain. As far as fights are concerned, they are picturised in a very stylish way, while the choreography of songs is excellent. With the use of Digital Intermediate technology in colour grading, the songs look pleasing to the eyes. The production values of Vyjayanthi Movies are excellent. The conversation with the judge before the climax where the hero claims that the country needs youth and selfless politicians like Puchalapalli Sundaraiah, Abul Kalam Azad and Guljarilal Nanda, is worth watching. However, the director could have avoided the crude satire against TV channels.
Guna Sekhar-Mahesh Babu combination has always aroused lot of curiosity among the audiences and media. The picturisation of songs and stylish action scenes vouch for attention. Indeed, the duo has lived up to their names.
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Trisha, Irfan Khan, Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Kamna Jethmalani, Ajay, Ravivarma, Raghunatha Reddy, Malladi Raghava, Narasimha Raju, Narsing Yadav, Duvvasi Mohan, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, MVL Narasimha Rao, Lakshmipati, Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, Telangana Shakuntala.
Credits: Dialogues – Paruchuri Brothers, Cinematography – Balasubramanyam, Music – Harris Jayaraj, Action – Peter Hain, Editing – Srikar Prasad, Presenter – C Dharmaraju, Producer – C Aswini Dutt, Story, screenplay and direction – Guna Sekhar.
Banner: Vyjayanthi Studios Pvt Ltd.,

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