Nannaku Prematho Movie Review
on Jan 13, 2016
Jr NTR's dream of cracking 50 crores club is going to be started with "Nannaku Prematho". As the film is publicised as a father-son emotional high, everyone is looking forward what magic Sukumar has really done on screen.
The CONTENT:
Ramesh Chandra Prasad (Rajendra Prasad) gets cheated by Krishna Murthy alias Koutilya (Jagapathi Babu) in business and takes up another identity Subramanyam. He grows his sons Rajiv Kanakala, Srinivas Avasarala and Abhiram (NTR) with values. While on death bed, he ask his son Abhi to avenge the loss and bring Krishna Murthy to zero. On that mission, Abhi now flatters Kay Group MD Krishna Murthy's daughter Divyanka (Rakul Preet) and gets into the empire. However, Krishna Murthy knows all this. What happens there after is the rest of story.
The EFFORT:
On-Screen:
Jr NTR looks stylish in his attire, but after watching him for a while, his beard looked little disturbing. Cutting out his usual antics like exaggerated dialogues and activeness, he literally acted like the synonym of cool. Especially during last 20 minutes of the film, he portrayed vivid emotions flawlessly. However, he didn't stick to one style of characterisation purely. Sometimes he slaps his associates, sometimes he pleases his lover and sometimes he tries to portray a dominant. Nice variations, somehow disjointed.
Jagapathi Babu is a revelation. He looks damn hot in that salt and pepper look. His role Krishna Murthy is also a cool-player and there is no exaggerated role for him this time. Though there are no fights and violence, he tried to portray a myriad of emotions with his expressive eyes.
Heroine Rakul Preet has for the first time acted very well. She left her plastic smiles and over board excitement at home and struck true to the character. As a rich person's daughter, she's terrific and her presence in songs is also an asset for the film. All other actors are routine, while Rajiv Kanakala once again makes a mark with just couple of scenes.
Off-Screen:
Sukumar has once again tried to put his extensive knowledge of science, maths and other physical theorems into usage. Taking up a routine story, he comes up with display of knowledge which sounds good in certain scenes but ends up as an over-fried curry in the end. Someone on deathbed asking to take revenge on his opponent is something we see on villain's side each time, but here hero's father does that. Other than that, Sukumar churned same old story. But he took scenes from movies like Transporter, Taken and some emotional plots from The Descendants to churn out the film.
Vijay K Chaktravathy's visuals are top notch, while Devi Sri Prasad's background music is good at parts. With songs that sound similar to his previous compositions, and failure of giving best RR for scenes that need high dose, DSP did only a partial justice to the product. Producer BVSN Prasad should be appreciated for spending huge bucks for filming the movie completely in London and Spain.
The PLUSES:
Jr NTR
Engaging first half
Visuals of London
The MINUSES:
Science lessons
Emotions going for toss in second half
Poor-routine story
BREAKDOWN:
A son fulfilling the dream of an ailing father, and helping him avenge his business loss, is a regular story we're watching on silver screen these days. We have seen moves like Dookudu and mostly recently Bengal Tiger, where sons go for any extent for the sake of father and help exact retribution for the insults experienced by father in the past. Targeting the villain's daughter and making her fell in love is another old school formula. Except for Sukumar mark science and maths classes, there is nothing new than this formula in "Nannaku Prematho".
Story starts in London with a father (Rajendra Prasad) asking his son (NTR) to exact revenge on Krishna Murthy (Jagapathi Babu). By the time NTR starts using his intelligence and Sukumar entertains us through his science fundamentals, common sense logic and basic histrionics, it is already proved that NTR is shunted out of a company for not being too intelligent. Awww, the buck is shot. Okay, whole first half goes entertaining as NTR and Rakul keep the flow interesting. But when we come to know that Jagapathi Babu also knows about whole game, interval should be interesting, but it's just a simple knee-jerk kind excitement.
Cut to second half, the film starts on emotional note with NTR's father struggling on death bed and to achieve father's dream NTR starts wooing Rakul Preet again. Suddenly when the whole plot of hero to bring villain Jagapathi is revealed, it is portrayed that Rakul Preet is also too intelligent like NTR. And that intelligent is cut off, by taking her to a jail, where a sentimental episode makes her fall in love with hero. There comes pre-climax. Villain wins over hero by torturing him. Recovering from the torture in no time, then hero simply loots villain's money with his technique. That's it, revenge is over. And a 15-minute drama in hospital, to bid farewell to father, ends the film.
Old formula story with 'physics' and 'mathematics' laced all over will not sound convincing. As time progresses, there should be some high emotions even though Sukumar used huge intelligence. Whether A or B or C centres, without churning emotions there is no use of applying theorems, principles, algebra, trigonometry, vaasu shastra and electronics. Sorry, add partial physics too. Keeping 'coffee cup' and 'chappal' in particular direction creates scenes, and they sound exciting but not logical. By the time we relish on such scenes, Sukumar's program for Discovery channel misses out its aim. So, it looks plain jane and routine.
Final words: Science documentary sans emotions
RATING:2.5/5
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