Pilla Zamindar fame Ashok has teamed up with ‘Lovely’ Aadi for ‘Sukumarudu’ movie. Lot of expectation has been mounted on the film due to the director’s previous movie and a good album composed by Anoop Rubens. Let us check out Sukumarudu Movie Review to know more.

Cast: Aadi, Nisha Agarwal, Sarada, Rao Ramesh, JP, Ms Narayana and Super Star Krishna (Guest Role)
Music: Anoop Rubens
Editing: Praveen Pudi
Cinematography: Sai Sreeram
Fights: Ravi Varma
Director: Ashok.G
Producer: K Venugopal
Banner: Sri Saudamini Creations

Story

Sukumar (Aadi) is a CEO for a US company and he has no time for relations. The best thing which Sukumar loves in this world is MONEY. Sukumar plans to start his own firm in USA and the banks over there asks Sukumar to deposit hefty amount. Sukumar comes to know that he is owner of the property in his hometown (Andhra Pradesh, India) which is more than 150 crores worth. So, Sukumar leaves for India to sell that property and deposit the amount in the bank for his firm. What does Sukumar Come across in his village? Will he sell his ancestral property? Does Sukumar realize the Value of human relations? All these elements form the rest of the story.

Analysis

Sukumarudu movies starts with interesting tittle cards. Aadi is introduced as Sukumar who is a young CEO and the first song is well choreographed. Aadi leaves to India to sell his ancestral property and he meets lot of funny people in his village. Director Ashok tried a lot to fill most part of Sukumarudu with fun factor. After an interesting interval twist, audience might feel that something new is yet to come in the second half, but nothing changes. Predictable scenes and lack of fun in most of the comedy episodes makes the film even worse.

Teluguone Perspective

After watching director Ashok’s previous flick Pilla Zamindar, audience will enter the theater thinking that this film might also be in the same genre. Adding to this, makers of the film and the director have promoted the film as a wholesome family entertainer. Excluding a couple of scenes, rest of the film looked very pale.  Each and every artist did their job but lack of punch in the comedy episodes and a routine story made the things go bad. Another annoying thing is the back ground music in the comedy episodes which makes the audience feel as an alarm that a funny scene was just completed.  Aadi has improved a lot as an actor and his dances, fights are good but he should be more careful while selecting the scripts.

Technicalities

Music by Anoop Rubens and cinematography by Sai Sreeram are good. Lot of scenes in the movie were like Cut, Copy & Paste as the flow was missing. Nothing to blame editor Pravin Pudi as it’s a mistake from Director Ashok’s end. Dialogues are average. Finally, director Ashok made a film which is not upto the mark but that doesn’t mean that he is a bad technician. His love towards Telugu nativity in his films must be definitely appreciated but nothing went right in this film.

Performances

Aadi acted with ease and full marks for his dances and fights. Nisha Agarwal looked good and glamorous especially in songs. Veteran actress Sharada’s role was superb. Rao Ramesh was as usual good. Nothing much to say about others as JP, MS Narayana, Raghu Babu, Thagubothu Ramesh etc have done their job. Super Star Krishna appeared in a brief role and made his presence felt.

Positives

Telugu Nativity

Negatives

Routine Story
Lack of Punch in Comedy Scenes
Predictable Scenes

Final Word: Sukumarudu offers nothing new to the Telugu audience.

Sukumarudu Rating : 2.5/5

Reviewed by Vamsi Kaka