{"id":1461,"date":"2018-06-15T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telugoos.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2021-08-05T07:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:59:19","slug":"sammohanam-gives-feel-of-reading-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/15\/sammohanam-gives-feel-of-reading-good-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammohanam : Feel of Reading Good Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1040\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam1.jpg?resize=660%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam1.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">QUICK SCAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong> <strong>3\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Impression:<\/strong> It\u2019s an outright feel-good\u00a0 romedy (romance plus comedy). Subtle attack on crude plagiarism and casting coach in film industry is what you get as a freebie. Despite a few lags, the narrative is relieving and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plus points:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aditi Rao(Sameera)\u2019s well-poised presence through the movie as a celebrated film star makes audience glued to their seats.<\/li>\n<li>Hero Sudheer Babu (Hero) refreshingly does his best, by not resorting to overplay anywhere, as her admirer.<\/li>\n<li>Naresh, as hero\u2019s father, contributes the lion\u2019s share of humour to the movie, as the one who desperately tries to find his entry into films in his late fifties.<\/li>\n<li>Dialogues, both in comedy and love tracks, are punchy.<\/li>\n<li>The grey side of film making is subtly exposed much to the delight of audiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pitfalls:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long oral narratives by heroine\u2019s aide(Hari Teja) and the publisher(Tanikella Bharani) at the book launch function cause boredom<\/li>\n<li>The antagonist (villain) has little to play. He is finished immediately after he is introduced.<\/li>\n<li>Lyrics, though extravagantly spread, mostly as backgrounders to the story make little impact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WHO&#8217;S WHO<\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Movie: <\/strong><strong>Sammohanam<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Banner:<\/strong>\u00a0Sri Devi Movies\n\n<strong>Director :<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Mohan Krishna Indraganti\u00a0\n\n<strong>Producer :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Sivalenka Krishna<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Prasad\n\n<strong>Music :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Vivek Sagar\n\n<strong>Starring :\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Sudheer Babu, Aditi Rao Hydari, Naresh, Tanikella Bharani\n\n<strong>Editor :\u00a0<\/strong>Martand K. Venkatesh\n\n<strong>Cinematographer\u00a0:<\/strong>\u00a0 P.G. Vinda\n\n<strong>Art Director :\u00a0<\/strong>S. Ravinder\n\n<strong>Date of Release:<\/strong> 15<sup>th<\/sup> June 2018<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plot: \u00a0Void in Star\u2019s Life<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How stardom takes away small niceties of life, say, love, togetherness and friendship are the real plot of the movie. The magic a female film star experiences when he meets an average middle class boy and the turmoil she undergoes in turning the magic into reality are the main ingredients of this movie.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Story: Middle Class Boy Falls in Love with Film Star<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Naresh spares his house for film-shooting expecting nothing in turn, barring a role in the movie. As part of the shooting, Sameera (Aditi Rao) stays in the home. Naresh\u2019 son, Vijay(Sudheer Babu) helps her in modulating Telugu words. By the time\u00a0 the film unit packs up, he falls in love with her. He, however, conveys the same, going all the way to Manali, where the rest of the film is shot but comes with the disappointment, as she adversely responds. How the two come together finally is the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Treatment: Twist in Fairy Tale<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How a little boy meets a star in the sky, goes with her, sees the celestial world and gets distanced from her is a fairy tale. The Director symbolically fits \u00a0a young man\u2019s love story with a film star in this tale.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Screen play: More to Comment Than to Narrate<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1042 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam3.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/sammohanam3.jpg?w=660&amp;ssl=1 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Greater part of the first half is spent on making mockery of the present trends in Tollywood, say, hiring non-Telugus for heroines and villains, artificial histrionics of heroes in action movies, and \u00a0male stars\u2019 indecent behaviour with female stars. This preoccupation of the director puts the movie in sluggish pace till the intermission. In the latter half however, he limits himself to the one malpractice in the film industry, plagiarism. Yes, how the film writers shamelessly \u00a0rob of others\u2019 ideas without acknowledgement, is brilliantly handled as the part of the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<strong>Heroine : Steals Our Hearts With Chuckles <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s a heroine-centred( not to be mistaken for women-oriented or feministic) movie. Aditi Rao \u00a0has her inimitable cute chuckle. It precedes to her every dialogue of fondness and love. True to tell, she expresses much through pauses she makes between a word and a word.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Hero : Measured Actor as Lover Boy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sudheer Babu never disappoints us in any frame. He hands all emotions in equal measure with dignity and restraint. He has once again to be a good lover boy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Naresh \u00a0Reaches New Peaks of Comedy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Naresh sets new standards for comedy in this movie. Naresh was best known for comedy when he was young. He has an amazing ease in action and brilliant timing in dialogue delivery. Though he\u00a0 has done\u00a0 many roles in his second innings, the role of hero\u2019s father in this movie, will ever be remembered. In climax he looks heroic than hero in entertaining audiences. As one who desperately tries his luck as an actor on screen in his late fifties, he offers non-stop comedy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Others in Cast: Rahul and Pavitra Have Their Cut<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rahul Ramakrishna of Arjun Reddy fame (the Hero\u2019s side kick) and Pavitra Lokesh\u00a0 ( one of the \u00a0hero\u2019s sidekicks) do deserve special mentioning. In expressing his excitement of meeting a film star and helping the hero in nabbing the villain, he delivers instant comedy. Keeping an indelible grace on her face throughout the film Pavitra lives up to the role of a brilliant homemaker. She at her best when she counsels her son, when he gets rejection from Adiiti Rao.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dialogues: Sarcastic and Deep<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dialogues are mostly sarcastic, while making a commentary on the ongoing trends of\u00a0 Tollywood . Those that are penned for Naresh to lampoon the \u2018so called action heroes\u2019 offer good\u00a0 guffaws. The writer never hesitates to lambast the copy cats in his own profession. The intimate and timely exchanges of the lovers( the hero and heroine) are commendable.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cinematography: Little for Lens<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though little room is left for ,P.G. Vinda, the cinematographer, he does his best. Most of the film is shot in one dwelling. Shoot at Manali, of course, gives a big relief to his lens. Credit goes to the cinematographer for keeping the heroine cute in every scene including the one on hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Music: <\/strong><strong>No Tune Left to Hum<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Sorry, Vivek Sagar, fails to give a single tune to hum, while coming out of the theatre. However, his back ground music has elevated comedy scenes. .<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bottom line: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mohan Krishna Indraganti, as the director, gives the feel of a reading good book with his film Sammohanam. A must-watch for those\u00a0 who look for a feel-good movie.<\/p>\n<h4>-SATISH CHANDAR<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK SCAN Rating: 3\/5 First Impression: It\u2019s an outright feel-good\u00a0 romedy (romance plus comedy). 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