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Movie:Idhi Sangathi
Banner:Filmotsav
Rating:2.50
Released On:Feb 22, 2008
Idhi Sangathi is all about greedy nature of people right from a common man to Prime minister.When Mumbai express met with an accident Crime reporter of a daily Murthy(Abbas) &his colleague,friend Neeladri(Sunil) grabs the gold ornaments&two suitcases from the dead bodies and distribute among themselves.Murthy handsover the suitcase&gold to his wife Swarajya Lakshmi(Tabu),who desperately wanto to become rich.Actually the suitcase consists of diamonds worth Rs.500Crores and it belongs to Prime minster(Kota Srinivasarao).And right from the local police,thieves to DIG&Prime minister wants to know the whereabouts of the diamonds and wanna own them.What happened next is the remaining story.
Analysis :
The movie meanders to the climax which, though loaded with a simple message, seems to be an anti-climax -- and a rather tame one at that given the ordeal the characters go through. In short the director wanted to send the message across by testing the patience of the audience. The pace of the movie slows down quite a bit in between. In a film which is talking about greed and its effects, the director has made Tabu and Abbas gyrate to a sensual number and Raja, Anita and Samiksha in an 'item' number. The 'light' vein element is provided by Sunil and Venu Madhav. All these ingredients the staple of most Telugu films -- irritate most of the audience. For Tabu this role is a cakewalk as there is nothing very challenging about it. She looks pretty and glides through the film effortlessly looking quite sensuous in the song. Abbas is quite convincing in a different look -- a de-glamorised one. Raja's cameo is satisfactory.
TeluguOne Perspective :
Idhi Sangathi is a clear satire on the dependable vicious circle involving politicians, police and criminals. Chandra Siddarth made an attempt to project his mind that human greed is universal and it has no barriers like great or small. A major thing to note in the film is that all the characters in the film are not positive. Every character is greedy for the riches, from politicians to police to criminals to middleclass people. Nobody understands why the director chose the post of a PM as the greedy person, from whom the original problem has started. The police investigation into the missing diamonds issue is also frivolous. The chances of the film showing up the stamina at the box office are doubtful. However, we can't rule out its influence on the audiences on the lines of chandra siddardha's previous films, like aa naluguru and madhumaasam, which emerged as critically acclaimed performers, 2 weeks after release.