Category: Movie Review - Written by Tagore - Posted On: September 25th, 2008
Cinegola rating: **___Watchable (2 stars)Tagline: Souryam - more action less emotion
Strengths: Gopichand
Weaknesses: Screenplay and routine story
My analysis: Camera man Shiva who directed Souryam for the first time in his filmy career miserably failed in screenplay. He scripted a pretty good story which couldn’t be presented properly on screen. The first half of the movie is little dragged with more of Gopichand-Anushka romance and less of the real story. The second half is also dragged with only story and no romance. Shiva also couldn’t establish the real reason for villans chasing the hero until after the interval because of which the movie becomes little confusive till the interval twist is revealed.
That is why I say that camera man should be only a camera man and not a director. For that matter, now-a-days many people in our telugu film industry are shifting from one field to another field because of which the quality of telugu cinema is slowly detoriating. Its been long since the telugu audience saw a good telugu movie.
I sincierly request all the Tollywood technicians to do only the job they are best at and not to jump into other fields spoiling the quality of telugu cinema.
Performances: Gopichand who is the hero of Souryam is the only saving grace of the movie. He looks good as the daring and dasing police officer. His action in action sequences is good and his action in emotional scenes also improved when compared to his earlier movies. He is slowly raising as a mass hero on whom the producers and distributors can safely bet.Anushka is becoming more hot and sexy with every releasing movie. She looks more hot and revealing than her earlier movie Baladoor. She is giving a tough competition for other top telugu heroines like Ileana and Nayanatara and is becoming the numerouno heroine of Tollywood.
Malayalam actor Manoj K Jain and Ajay were good as villans. Director Shiva who showed Manoj as a very cruel villan spoiled the whole tempo when he showed him as a helpless person who runs around Hyderabad on the cal of Gopichand.
Comedians Ali, Raghu Babu and Krishna Bhagavan could bring little laughter in the otherwise serious movie.
Music by Mani Sharma cannot create any impression on the viewer. Except for the first song all other songs are boring and dull. Anushka’s exposing is good in these songs.
Story and direction by Shiva are good but his screenplay is very bad. He couldn’t balance the story in both the halves. There was literally no story in the first half and there was nothing else other than story in the second half. Because of this there was a total mismatch in both the halves.
Story: Young and dynamic Shiva (Gopichand) who is followed by villans reaches Culcutta and joins a college there. Swetha (Anushka) who is also a student in the same college falls in love with him. Meanwhile Shiva keeps on protecting his college mate and orphan Divya (Poonam Kaur) from all her difficulties. The relation between Divya and Shiva and also the reason for villans chasing Shiva will be known only if you watch the movie.Cast: Gopichand, Anushka, Poonam Kaur, Manoj K Jain, Ajay, Ali, Sarath Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Sudha, Krishna Bhagavan, Raghu Babu, Rachana Mourya and many more.
Banner: Bhavya Creations
Music: Mani Sharma
Dialogues: Ratnam
Producer: V Anand Prasad
Story, Screenplay & Direction: Shiva
Final Judgement: Average
