Nannaku Prematho Review
Nannaku Prematho Story: Abhi (Junior NTR), the young entrepreneur in London floats a new startup KMC. Before he gets on to actual work, here comes the message about his father Subramanyam aka Ramesh Chandra Prasad (Rajendra Prasad) suffering with Cancer is admitted in hospital in a very serious condition. Here Ramesh Chandra Prasad narrates the flashback on how he is betrayed by business partner Krishna Murthy Kautilya (Jagapathi Babu) and in these last days of life, Ramesh Chandra Prasad wishes to see the downfall of Krishna Murthy. Thus Abhi is on a mission to fulfill his dad’s last wish and sketches the action plan to begin with trapping of Krishna Murthy’s daughter Divyanka (Rakul Preet Singh) in love. Before accomplishing first target, the conflict becomes open as Abhi and Krishna Murthy comes face to face. Later on it’s all mind game full of wits checkmating each other resulting in bankruptcy of Krishna Murthy forms climax.
Positives:
* “Nannaku Prematho” is a simple revenge drama film, which is high on emotion.
* NTR has delivered an awesome performance as an NRI in the film. His stylish look, action, dialogue delivery are the highlights in the film.
* Rakul Preet Singh has got good chance to perform in the film. Her glamour and chemistry with NTR are also the big assets in the film. She has dubbed in her own voice, which sounds very good to hear.
* As usual Rajendra Prasad in the role of father and Jagapathi Babu as Antagonist delivered wonderful performances.
* There is no bloodshed and unnecessary violence in the film.
* The first half of the film has some romantic and few comedy scenes, which keeps the viewers engaging.
* The second half is filled with some high-voltage action and emotional scenes.
Negatives:
* The episode featuring Rakul Preet Singh and her mother in the first half is boring. These scenes could have been easily chopped off in order to reduce the run time of the film.
* The dragging narration in few parts of the second half is the main drawback.
* As the concept of the film is quite emotional, there is lack of comedy in the film. This may disappoint the audience as many of them expect a lot of entertainment for the festive season.
Nannaku Prematho Artists and Technicians: It is hard to imagine Sukumar without complexity and high intelligence quotient in his story selection, scripting or narration. He showed it before Mahesh Babu with ‘1 Nenokkadine’ and tried to continue the same infront of NTR. Betterment here is Sukku picked a revenge backdrop safely tested number of times on Telugu screen and owned it in his own style adding absolutely a quick witted screenplay. Hero’s astute characterization clearly marks the ability of Sukku to teach new benchmarks in Telugu cinema heroism. Whatever, the cleverly driven main theme goes bedlam as it proceeds from one step to other. Barring the extreme cinematic liberties taken, there were many opportunities left by Sukku to uplift real soul in concept which finally left audience in null emotional connectivity. He also missed a lot in ripening the drama which let us into regular confusion mode. Writing department has done fairly a decent job but without arousing the emotional support. Nevertheless, amalgamating subjects like Scientific Physics, Medical Chemistry and Mathematical Equations into the overall mind game is what we call Suku‘mark.’ Vijay Chakravarthy camera work provided us a visual feast and each frame is a perfect beauty surely to appeal our eyes. Naveen Nooli’s editing could have been far sharper though rushing towards climax was a bit bizarre. Devi Sri Prasad songs and BGM were regarded as assets. Of course, Love Dhebba and Love Me Again songs shot very poorly. Special mention needed for ‘Follow Follow’ song which is a special lesson for apprentice directors by itself. Production standards from BVSN Prasad and SVCC are outright top notch.
On to performances, Junior NTR not only looked different in styling but also delivered the best. Above the regular stereotyped mass characterizations, he got a purposeful role with extreme mental state. His screen presence is just magical and this can be called a complete makeover. Yet again, he is a best dancer and emotional performer. Rakul Preet Singh is glamorous and does the role with ease. Self dubbing, she did manage to some extent. Best portion of the film is romantic track between NTR, Rakul where they showed wonderful chemistry. Jagapathi Babu is graceful with sophisticated styling although his barbarous villainy isn’t established. Rajendra Prasad characterization lacked in spine yet he managed from what is given. Rajeev Kanakala, Avasarala Srinivas as NTR elder brothers were for name sake. Madhu Bala is brief and effective. Sapthagiri, Noel showed the presence. Rest may not need a big mention.
Mp3 TeluguMusic Analysis:
Nannaku Prematho is a family entertainer that deals with a father-son sentimental relationship, which is high on action quotient. The film will carry out very well at the A centres. However, the success of the film at the box-office purely depends on how the mass audience receive it. Even though the story is a routine revenge drama, Sukumar’s intelligent screenplay makes it an interesting watch.
Mp3 TeluguMusic Rating : 3/5