{"id":956,"date":"2018-05-10T05:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T23:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telugoos.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:28:13","slug":"go-savitri-mind-come-keerthi-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/10\/go-savitri-mind-come-keerthi-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahanati Review: Go with Savitri in Mind \u2013Come with Keerthi as Memory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">QUICK SCAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><\/span> <strong>3.75\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>First Impression:<\/strong><\/span> Savitri relives as Keerthi Suresh both in appearance and performance. This\u00a0 bio-pic is loyal rendering of Savitri\u2019s life without staking entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plus points:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keerthi Suresh gives an impression that Savitri is reborn at least for 2hours.<\/li>\n<li>Dulquer Salmaan as Gemin Ganeshan transforms from a lover boy to professional rival to Savitri with amazing ease.<\/li>\n<li>Rajendra Prasad\u2019s role as Savitri\u2019s paternal uncle brilliantly blends comedy and tragedy throughout the movie. He is at his best, when he comes to see her when she is hospitalised.<\/li>\n<li>Cameo appearances of Mohan Babu (as SV Ranga Rao), Nag Chaitanya (as ANR) and Prakash Raj( as Chkrapani) throw pleasant surprises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pitfalls:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drab love track of Samantha (Reporter) and Vijay Deverakonda(photographer)<\/li>\n<li>Melancholic narrative in the second half takes away the promising mood set in the first half.<\/li>\n<li>The Climax and the end fail to take away the audience\u2019s emotion to the pinnacle and give the finishing of a documentary film.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>\n  Movie: Mahanati\n  Banner:<\/strong>\u00a0Swapna Cinema and Vyjayanthi Movies<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>  Cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Keerthy Suresh, Dulquer Salmaan, Rajendar Prasad, \u00a0Samantha Akkineni,\n  Vijay Deverakonda,Tanikella Bharan, Mohan Babu,\u00a0, Malavika Nair, Bhanu Priya,\n  Shalini Pandey, Divya Vani,  Srinivas Avasarala and Naga Chaitanya<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>  Cinematography:<\/strong>\u00a0Dani<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>  Dialogues:<\/strong>\u00a0Sai Madhav Burra<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Mickey J Meyer<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Editor:<\/strong>\u00a0Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Production Design:<\/strong>\u00a0Shivam, Avinash<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Producer:<\/strong>\u00a0Priyanka Dutt<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Written and directed by:<\/strong>\u00a0Nag Ashwin<\/em><\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>  <strong>Release date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 9, 2018<\/em><\/span><\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plot: From Beginning to End<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The life of South Indian female star,Savitri, unravels with the research of\u00a0 a female journalist, Madhuravani(Samantha Akkineni). His colleague and a press photographer, Vijay Anthony (Vijay Devarakonda) sojourns with her in tracking people and papers to write Savitri\u2019s story. Savitri\u2019s maternal aunt (Bhanupriya) narrates the major part of the Story. All those, who have read her biography, know pathetic\u00a0 her life was in her last days. The way the film travels from the known end to unknown opening is really captivating in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Story: Savitri Sees Mentor, Lover and Villian in One Person<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Had Gemini Ganeshan not traced Savitri, she would not have appeared on the silver screen. He stands\u00a0 not only as the alpha but remained the omega of her career. He quickly\u00a0 falls in love with his charms and leisurely reveals that she has a wife and two children. He admits anther affair with another co-star. But he makes Savitri believes that his heart beats for her alone. He asks her to his second wife. In a dramatic way, Gemini Ganeshan\u2019s first wife gives her nod to this new arrangement. But things start turning worse, when Savitri\u2019s stardom grows leaps and bounds. Gemini Ganeshan feels jealous of her. How his envy causes the gap between the two is the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Treatment: Once Upon \u2018Two Times\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film is set in two \u2018pasts\u2019(periods). One: The life and times of Savitri, Two: The time of Samanta\u2019s and Vijay Deverakonda\u2019s journalistic research. The costumes of Savitri and Gemini Ganesh set the old period intact. Ajay Deverkonda\u2019s hippy haircut, and his long collared short and Bellbottom trousers keep the period at late seventies and early eighties. These two periods have helped the director to run real life and \u2018reel\u2019life simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Screen play: Songs Run Story<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Interchangeably, the scenes loiter between the two pasts and make the story move captivatingly. Lyrics from Savitri\u2019s hit films (like Maayabazaar, Devdas and Missamma) have been re-enacted to enable the movie move entertainingly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Lead Role : Keerthi Thy Name is Savitri<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Keerthi Suresh is at her best in displaying Savitri\u2019s grace and emulating her mannerisms, particularly the way she smiles and walks. Though Savitri\u2019s style of acting his inimitable, Keerthi comes almost close to her style. When she wails alone and\u00a0 loses her cool in Gemini Ganeshan\u2019s presence, Keerthi\u2019s performance is outstanding. The audience do not have an iota of doubt in any frame that she is not Savitri. Throughout the film one feeling haunts us: Savitri comes alive.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-958\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/keerthi-2.jpg?resize=759%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/keerthi-2.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/keerthi-2.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Others in Cast: New Directors Set in Old Times<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though Krish\u2019 appearance as KV Reddy and Srinivas Avasarala\u2019s cut as LV Prasad are short, they make the impact uncompromising directors of yesteryears.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dialogues: Rich in Sound and Poor in Impact<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dialogues in many scenes sound more like moral preaching. Though the writer (Sai Madhav Burra) tries his best to turn\u00a0 philosophical hither and thither, he couldn\u2019t register them. However, the intimate love between Gemini and Savitri has been\u00a0 reasonably demonstrated through dialogues. But the dialogues fail\u00a0 to rise to the mood, when Gemini Ganeshan declares Savitri as his wife standing atop a tram.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cinematography: Not Lights but Camera on<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reasonably good. While visualising inside view of the kitchen in the days when no village was electrified, the photographer does his best. While re-enacting the sense from the Black and White era, Dani simply does magic with lens.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Music: Plays Time Back<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mickey J Meyer\u2019s back ground score gives soothing effect. Though his composition for song is outstanding, no lyric stands out with a tune that lingers on and on. The problem is not with his craft. He needs to low lie amid hit tunes of Savitri\u2019s films that run over the entire film. He leaves his musical bang for change of every important scene.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Pitfalls: Second Half Slips into Documentary Mode<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The film loses its grip in the second half. Without clearly knowing the persons behind her steep economic fall, she draws blank. Gemini Ganesh tries to alert her in the middle much to her dislike. It\u2019s true any film maker is caged in reality while handling\u00a0 a bio-pic. Nag Ashwin is no exception. It seems he is extra loyal to Savitri\u2019s life.\u00a0 This is found in the latter half of the film.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bottom line: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s wrong to say that Keerthi Suresh resembles Savitri. The truth is that Savitri looks like Keerthi Suresh.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>-Satish Chandar<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUICK SCAN Rating: 3.75\/5 First Impression: Savitri relives as Keerthi Suresh both in appearance and performance. 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