Cast: Shree Nandu, Yamini Bhaskar, Narasimha S, Priyanka Rebekah Srinivas, Sukesh, Wadekar Narsing, Bobby Ratakonda, Sakshi Atree Chaturvedi, Mounika, Pradyumna Billuri
Crew:
DOP: K Prakash Reddy
Editor: Prateek Nuti
Additional Screenplay: Shree Nandu
Music Director : Smaran Sai
Writer & Director: Varun Reddy
Producers: Shree Nandu, Shyam Sunder Reddy Thudi
Shree Nandu has stated several times that he had been struggling for 19 years to find his success as a leading man. Now, with Psych Siddhartha, he has decided to try a completely whacky and out-of-box movie to attract Gen-Z. The movie is distributed by Spirit Media and Suresh Productions and the teasers, trailer has earned it good buzz. How is the movie? Will the New Year begin with a bang for Telugu Cinema? Read further to know.
Plot:
Siddhartha (Shree Nandu) has lost 3 crores of investment to Mansoor and his girlfriend Trisha. He is living on roads and in a basti unable to pay rents. He runs a fraud case on Mansoor and his friend Revanth tries to make him accept a settlement. Trisha keeps swinging between Siddhartha and Mansoor, while Mansoor is planning to propose to her. In this washed out state, Siddhartha meets a dancer Sharvya (Yamini Bhaskar) who is abused by her husband and has a son. What all twists and turns his life will take at this juncture, watch the movie to know more.
Analysis :
Nandu shed all his inhibitions for the film and tried to do his best for the role. Trying to be a person who is extremely innocent to the level of being dangerously naive, he played the character well. He gave it everything without restricting himself. Yamini Bhaskar is cute and very apt for this role. Sadly, other actors did not look perfect for their roles.
Most of them looked like they did not get the character or the kind of skill to make the scene more real. Even random editing patterns that try to go back and forth at times give jarring feel rather than the whacky comic mode that the makers hoped to set. While some laugh out loud moments to shine, the regularity of these moments is very low and even the story is very predictable.
The makers have decided to overcome the predictability factor by using Siddhartha's character but the lack of proper back story except for a certain situation tends to take us away from connecting with him too. Sometimes it feels like they are trying too hard to sell the whacky gig when it is not required or not present. The director has tried to give us an internal feeling of how it is to be in Siddhartha's brain and how he is totally damaged looking at his life like a game.
So, the new lease of life that he is able to find after a long struggle makes him even more desperate to hold it together but he is unable to due to his old patterns which needs to overcome. Such writing needs even more depth even in whacky scenes and ideas.
While the movie looks to have been made with restrictions and trying to make it look cool and new-age, the character writing lacked the real depth and there is more shallowness to the gigs too. Having said that the moments that work might entertain the limited set of audiences that this movie aims to touch.
TeluguOne Perspective :
The movie has a very limited appeal and high usage of abusive language. Not a recommendation but might attract audiences it targets.
