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Movie:Swarabhishekam
Banner:Sri Raja Rajeswari Combines
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Released On:Nov 4, 2004
The duo of Srirangam Brothers consists of Srinivasachari (K Viswanath) and Ranga (Srikanth). Srinivasachari is happily married and has no children. Ranga is a widower with two kids. They follow the old tradition of joint family. Srirangam Brothers are musicians by profession and they become the biggest music directors in Telugu film industry with their traditional and classical music. Surekha (Laya) - an anchor by profession - likes Ranga. Both of them fall in love and get married. After marriage, Surekha starts to feel that her husband is contributing a lot for the success of Srirangam brothers, while Srinivasachari is walking away with all the credit, honor and accolades. She jealously comments about it when Srinivasachari is awarded with Padmasri. Later on both the families get separated and Surekha slowly realizes that the brothers could shine only when they are united, but not when they are divided.
Analysis :
K Viswanath is exceptionally good in the role of Srirangam Srinivasachari. He embodies the essence of traditional musician and appeared very believable and natural. Srikanth looks pretty routine in the beginning of the film. But he performs well towards the end of the film as the repenting man who had agonized his brother. Sivaji is good as an aspiring singer. Sivaji has proved with this film that he could do any kind of roles with ease. He provided good entertainment as well.Urvasi is appropriate as wife of K Viswanath. Laya did the role that has a bit of grey shades (pang of jealousy and inclination towards nucleus family). She is good and dubbed the voice herself. The surprise pack of the film is Amukta Malyada. She is outstanding in terms of expression and body language. On the flipside, she does not have charming screen presence for casual scenes (scenes not involving traditional dances). The dubbing voice rendered to her is appropriate.There is the mark of K Viswanath in this film. Direction of the film is a bit old-fashioned. Viswanath heavily relies on traditional narration, which is being followed since days of Sankarabharanam. And this kind of narration might not go well with the present day movie lovers. The narration of the film is very slow. There is no compactness in the film as director has taken his own time to establish the characters. However there are some situations in the film that should be appreciated.
TeluguOne Perspective :
K Viswanath was exceptionally good as Srirangam Srinivasachari; he gave his role a natural feel. Srikanth came out with a commendable performance. But the tempo of the film goes down from the train song (25 minutes before interval). The second half is a bit boring. Climax is better. The plus points of the film are traditional-taking of the film reminiscent of the K Viswanath's old films with musical backdrop. The negative points are slow narration and handling in the second half. The Telugu film lovers who grew up on the diet of watching K Viswanath films might get nostalgic while watching this film. But the regular crowds might not find this classical film appealing enough. 'Swarabhishekam' by K Viswanath is not as involving and deep as sankharabaranam. First half of the movie is interesting but the second half is boring, narration is slow in the second half and music by Vidya Sagar is a complete let down. The songs do not match up any of Vishwanadh's previous movies.