Savitri Movie Review
on Apr 1, 2016
Known for selectively picking scripts, Nara Rohith is giving back to back releases these days. With his last film "Tuntari" missing the mark, he has now pinned hopes on "Savitri", which released today. Let us see how the film is.
The CONTENT:
Savitri (Nanditha) grows up with the only dream of getting married. She loves marriage. After making sure that her sister (Dhanya Balakrishnan) will not elope such that her big-fat-wedding will not get ruined, Savitri takes train to Shirdi along with her granma (Ramaprabha) and an assistant. During this journey Rishi (Nara Rohith) will impress her but she is not willing to go against parent's wishes. Also Savitri is not ready to miss the big-fat-wedding as she has to elope and marry at a temple in case if she loves this guy. Understanding this, Rishi comes to her hometown to convince her parents. What happens then, when the family rejects him, is the rest of story!!
The EFFORT:
On-Screen:
Picking up a mass character needs huge energy to deliver the right punch and that momentum is missing highly in Nara Rohith. Whether it is an emotional scene, fight or a comedy scene, he just stands still and delivers his lines. That's where we feel disconnected. With people in media over rating him, seems like Rohith has forgotten the fact that he should act well to impress audiences all the item.
Nanditha is the perfect show stealer with her cute looks, bubbly acting and cheerful mood. If given some perfect roles, probably she could easily deliver goods. However, directors have to make sure that they extract drama for her. "Savitri" has stellar cast like Ravi Babu, Murali Sharma, Ajay, Jeeva, Vennela Kishore— and none of these characters have a perfect ending neither they help pushing the story.
Posani and Prabhas Sreenu helped bring laughs, while Madhu and Sreemukhi's episode is also hilarious. Others like Dhanya Balakrishnan, Satyam Rajesh, Madhu, Swamy Ra Ra Satya have done their part, but failed to bring heavy laughs.
Off-Screen:
Director Pavan Sadineni picked huge star-cast, but while coming to the shoot, it seems like he has missed to carry script papers with him. Though he wanted to try something new, first of all he failed to extract brilliant and energetic performance from all the actors. Next point is, there is no proper screenplay written to narrate the film interestingly. Most of the second half went flat due to this. Also Krishna Chaitanya's dialogues haven't helped him much.
Shravan's background score is good, but his songs failed to create impact. Not even one song is there which we could come out humming from theatre. Vasanth's cinematography is good at parts. Production values incorporated by producers are nice and we could see it all over.
The PLUSES:
First half fun
Few comedy scenes
The MINUSES:
Rohith's poor performance
Dragged & Predictable second half
Poor songs
BREAKDOWN:
There are times where we have seen hero-heroine meeting in a train and then second half going like popular genre "Sreenu Vytla House Comedy". And with the arrival of horror comedies these days, people have stopped making Vytla genre films. But here comes Pawan Sadineni, re-introducing us to the forgotten genre in which even Vytla is failing to make films these days.
A kid having a special dream related to love-marriage or big-fat-wedding is not a new thing and this routine drama opens the film. But Nanditha's timed comedy along with Swamy Ra Ra Satya brings much fun. On their way to Shirdi in a train, she catches up with Nara Rohith and they miss train. Hey, recently we've seen this in Venkatadri Express know? And then an eloping couple will meet them, seek their help and hero helps them. This is also from Venkatadri Express only. For interval fight, how to attract fans and movie lovers? Add Balayya's film songs to the background music and create Gabbar Singh Antyakshari kind of environment. Done. But bringing impact from such scenes is not that easy. Interval.
For second half, what is the better way than to limit the movie to a house of heroine in a village? That's what the manual written by Sreenu Vytla and Kona Venkat suggests, and our director followed it. From here, audience are the winners as they could easily guess what's going to be next scene. A forced villain for the sake of fights, forced house comedy for the sake of making audience laughs and forced situations for songs— force us to enjoy the film by nailing ourselves to seats. Finally the film ends on routine note, with known dialogues.
To take mass roles, wearing a rough beard isn't enough. Nara Rohith should understand that. And to pull emotional stories, he has to work hard on his acting and body language. Director Pavan Sadineni proved that he could narrate a story well in 15 minutes, but elongating the same story to 120 minutes will not make a feature film. Layering a story with multiple plot points needs a touch of 'magic' and that is purely missing here. "Savitri" is such type of film where you think everything is there, but not ordered, numbered and aligned. Let Savitri arrive on TV, why rushing to theatres in hot Summer?
Final words: Savitri, a misfired mixed biryani
Rating: 2/5
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