Jeevi rating: 3/5Punchline: comedy sans logic
Genre: Comedy
Type: Straight
Banner: Sri Hanuman Movie Makers
Cast: Allari Naresh, Farzana, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Brahmanandam, MS Narayana, LB Sriram, Mumait Khan (Item song), Kovai Sarala, Raghubabu etc
Music: Vandemataram Srinivas
Cast: Allari Naresh, Farzana, Jaya Prakash Reddy, Ali, Brahmanandam, MS Narayana, LB Sriram, Mumait Khan (Item song), Kovai Sarala, Raghubabu etc
Music: Vandemataram Srinivas
Dialogues: Marudhuri Raja
Cinematography: S Arun
Action: Vijay, Ram-Laxman & Raju
Art: Babji
Editing: Ramgopal Reddy
Screenplay & Direction: G. Nageswara Reddy
Producer: Chavali Ramanjaneyulu
Release date: 16 November 2007
Review
Story Subramanyam Sastri (Allari Naresh) falls in love with Surekha Reddy (Farzana) who lives with her relatives in Hyderabad. After falling in love Sastri gets to know that Surekha Reddy belongs to a popular factionist family in Rayala Seema. The rest of the story is all about how Subramanyam and his family members convince the factionist for the marriage in a humorous way.
Artists Performance
Review
Story Subramanyam Sastri (Allari Naresh) falls in love with Surekha Reddy (Farzana) who lives with her relatives in Hyderabad. After falling in love Sastri gets to know that Surekha Reddy belongs to a popular factionist family in Rayala Seema. The rest of the story is all about how Subramanyam and his family members convince the factionist for the marriage in a humorous way.
Artists Performance
Allari Naresh is good as the Seema Sastri. His body language suited the character of a timid guy. His dances are good in this film. Farzana complemented the role given to her. She has got amazing flexibility in dances. Brahmanandam, Ali, Krishna Bhagawan, Raghubabu etc did well in comedy department. Jaya Prakash Reddy is typical in a role that he got so much used with.
Technical Departments:
Story - screenplay - direction: Story of the film is simple. But director succeeded in maintaining grip throughout the film with comedy and necessary twists. The comedy in the film is good, though it is bit vulgar at times. Screenplay is alright. The spoof of Seema films has become stale by now. But the director made sure that there is something more for the people who have seen spoofs of Seema film.
Other departments: Music is good with popular picturization of songs. Dialogues are good in parts. Cinematography is ok.
Analysis: The first half of the film is alright. Second half is OK. The plus points of the film are comedy and songs. On the flip side, there is a bit of vulgarity and Brahmin-bashing. If you can ignore illogical scenes and vulgarity, it is a decent comedy film that does not bore you.
Seema Sastri links
Technical Departments:
Story - screenplay - direction: Story of the film is simple. But director succeeded in maintaining grip throughout the film with comedy and necessary twists. The comedy in the film is good, though it is bit vulgar at times. Screenplay is alright. The spoof of Seema films has become stale by now. But the director made sure that there is something more for the people who have seen spoofs of Seema film.
Other departments: Music is good with popular picturization of songs. Dialogues are good in parts. Cinematography is ok.
Analysis: The first half of the film is alright. Second half is OK. The plus points of the film are comedy and songs. On the flip side, there is a bit of vulgarity and Brahmin-bashing. If you can ignore illogical scenes and vulgarity, it is a decent comedy film that does not bore you.
Seema Sastri links
links to seema sastri
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by avinash
///NAVAVASANTHAM MOVIE REVIEW BY AVINASH///
Film: Nava Vasantham
AVINASH RATING:: 3/5
Cast: Tarun, Priyamani, Akash, Sunil, Rohit, Ankita, Kota Srinivas Rao, Ahuthi Prasad, Sana, Sudha, Mallikarjuna Rao, Brahmanandam and others
Music: S A Rajkumar
Cinematography: Sarvesh
Produced by: N V Prasad and Paras Jain
Presented by: R B Chowdhary
Banner: Mega Supergood Films
Story and directed by: K Shahjahan
Release Date: November 9, 2007
CBFC Rating: U
What's it about!
Ganesh (Tarun) comes down from the village to meet his uncle and his daughter Ammu (Priyamani), whom he has not met since childhood. His uncle refuses to acknowledge his presence and doesn't want his daughter to be married with Ganesh who is too poor. He meets his friends Prasad (Akash), Raja (Rohith), Vijay (Sunil) who are living in miserable condition to achieve their dreams. Prasad prepares for civil services, Raja aspires to be a singer and Vijay wants to be big time mimicry artiste. Touched by their hospitality and friendliness, Ganesh promises the three to achieve their ambitions. He runs a hotel, sacrifices money to make their friends settle in life. The rest of the film is how Ammu and Ganesh unit in the end?
Analysis
Nava Vasantham is remake of a Tamil hit, Punnagai Desam, which was also starred by Tarun in Tamil. Nava Vasantham is faithful remake of that film by the same director Shahjahan. There is no original bone in the film but it works due to two factors - Sunil's excellent comedy and good sentiment scenes. Seeing Tarun in completely different character (far from his 'lover boy' image, he plays Venkatesh kind of role) gives good impression. In fact, in the first half, it is Sunil who drives the pace with his comic act as Mimicry Basha.
The film is amalgam of many Vikraman films (from Pudu Vasantham to Venkatesh starrer Raja). Hero getting sympathy for his sacrifice and do-good activities is what we associate with Vikraman movies. In Nava Vasantham, the basic story line is almost similar to Vikraman directed Pudu Vasantham (which was later dubbed into Telugu by the title of Nava Vasantham too). The only difference is that Tarun doing such role, and the fresh combination of Priyamani, Tarun, Akash, Rohit and Sunil has worked to the film's advantage.
The Tamil director Shahjahan has packaged it well but his understanding about present economic social conditions seems to be zero. In these days, can anyone become popular singer just because you gave a performance at one of the kacheri in an auditorium? Hero Tarun comes to city with an 'inland cover' in search of his uncle's house and doesn't have a phone number. These kind of old and archaic scenes are plenty. Climax is also tedious.
Despite nothing new in the story, formulaic sentiment scenes, it works because the narration is very smooth and doesn't really get you feel bored. Jokes make you laugh.
Performances
Tarun dons a sympathetic role. He does the role convincingly. After long gap, he is back to screen and Tarun gets good character in this movie. Sunil is the hero, here. His comedy is too good. Akash and Rohit are okay. Priyamani is gorgeous and her chemistry with Tarun is also excellent. She looks glamorously as well and dances with ease. Ankita's role is pretty small. Kota Srinivas Rao's character is stereotype character that is normally played by Manivannan in similar Tamil movies.
Technically, camera work gets noticed. It is bright and gives cool look. Music by S A Rajkumar is below average. Songs are biggest weak aspect. Dialogues are impressive but preachy.
Bottom-line
If you are looking for simple time pass, Nava Vasantham gives enough entertainment. Sunil's comedy and Tarun's characterization and his performance are major assets. It il nothing but copy of Vikraman's Nava Vasantham but the director packages it freshly. You don't get much boredom. And don't look for novelty, then you can enjoy the proceedings
What's it about!
Ganesh (Tarun) comes down from the village to meet his uncle and his daughter Ammu (Priyamani), whom he has not met since childhood. His uncle refuses to acknowledge his presence and doesn't want his daughter to be married with Ganesh who is too poor. He meets his friends Prasad (Akash), Raja (Rohith), Vijay (Sunil) who are living in miserable condition to achieve their dreams. Prasad prepares for civil services, Raja aspires to be a singer and Vijay wants to be big time mimicry artiste. Touched by their hospitality and friendliness, Ganesh promises the three to achieve their ambitions. He runs a hotel, sacrifices money to make their friends settle in life. The rest of the film is how Ammu and Ganesh unit in the end?
Analysis
Nava Vasantham is remake of a Tamil hit, Punnagai Desam, which was also starred by Tarun in Tamil. Nava Vasantham is faithful remake of that film by the same director Shahjahan. There is no original bone in the film but it works due to two factors - Sunil's excellent comedy and good sentiment scenes. Seeing Tarun in completely different character (far from his 'lover boy' image, he plays Venkatesh kind of role) gives good impression. In fact, in the first half, it is Sunil who drives the pace with his comic act as Mimicry Basha.
The film is amalgam of many Vikraman films (from Pudu Vasantham to Venkatesh starrer Raja). Hero getting sympathy for his sacrifice and do-good activities is what we associate with Vikraman movies. In Nava Vasantham, the basic story line is almost similar to Vikraman directed Pudu Vasantham (which was later dubbed into Telugu by the title of Nava Vasantham too). The only difference is that Tarun doing such role, and the fresh combination of Priyamani, Tarun, Akash, Rohit and Sunil has worked to the film's advantage.
The Tamil director Shahjahan has packaged it well but his understanding about present economic social conditions seems to be zero. In these days, can anyone become popular singer just because you gave a performance at one of the kacheri in an auditorium? Hero Tarun comes to city with an 'inland cover' in search of his uncle's house and doesn't have a phone number. These kind of old and archaic scenes are plenty. Climax is also tedious.
Despite nothing new in the story, formulaic sentiment scenes, it works because the narration is very smooth and doesn't really get you feel bored. Jokes make you laugh.
Performances
Tarun dons a sympathetic role. He does the role convincingly. After long gap, he is back to screen and Tarun gets good character in this movie. Sunil is the hero, here. His comedy is too good. Akash and Rohit are okay. Priyamani is gorgeous and her chemistry with Tarun is also excellent. She looks glamorously as well and dances with ease. Ankita's role is pretty small. Kota Srinivas Rao's character is stereotype character that is normally played by Manivannan in similar Tamil movies.
Technically, camera work gets noticed. It is bright and gives cool look. Music by S A Rajkumar is below average. Songs are biggest weak aspect. Dialogues are impressive but preachy.
Bottom-line
If you are looking for simple time pass, Nava Vasantham gives enough entertainment. Sunil's comedy and Tarun's characterization and his performance are major assets. It il nothing but copy of Vikraman's Nava Vasantham but the director packages it freshly. You don't get much boredom. And don't look for novelty, then you can enjoy the proceedings
BY AVINASH
