Souryam Movie Review | Gopi Chand Souryam Movie Review

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

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Sowuryan Movie Review | Souryam Movie Review - Telugu Cinema Reviews

Film: Sowuryam
Cast: Gopichand, Anushka, Poonam Kaur, Manoj K Jayan, Ajay, Ali, Dharmavarapu, Sudha, Sharat Babu, Krishna Baghavan, Raghu Babu and others
Dialogues: M Rathnam
Music: Manisharma
Cinematography: Vetri
Editing: Marthand K Venkatesh
Art: Vivek
Action: Vijay, Ram-Lakshman, Selva
Executive producer: Anne Ravi
Produced by: V Ananda Prasad
Story, screenplay and directed by: Siva
Release date: September 25, 2008
CBFC Rating: U/A

 

What’s it about!

Vijay (Gopichand) comes to Kolkata in search of his lost sister (Poonam Kaur). He finds his sister but refuses to admit to his identity fearing she would hate him. When his father died, he disowns her deliberately hoping that she would be well off in the Christian orphanage than living with him in penury. That leaves scar on her mind and starts hating her brother. To win her love and save her from some ‘goons’, he comes to Kolkata and there he meets a naughty college student Swetha (Anushka). Soon, romance blossoms between them. On parallel, a don called Shivarama Krishna Gowd (Manoj K Jayan) in Hyderabad is on mission to find Vijay and he sends his men to Kolkata. The link between Gowd and Vijay is told in a flashback.

Analysis

 

Gopichand has earned an action hero image with films like Yagnam and Lakshyam. After seeing negative result for his experiment movie, Ontari, he comes back to what he does best – masala film with action and sentiment. The best part in Sowryam is  comedy that has worked. Ali’s comedy part and Krishna Baghavan – Raghu Babu’s comedy episode are best part in this action sentiment drama. They are more enjoyable. But the story and execution treads similar path of ‘regular mass films’. First half is executed well but second half is lengthy.

On the downside, the film is pretty predictable and music is big letdown. Don't look for freshness. Also, the film has influences of several movies like Pokiri, Samarasinha Reddy, etc. On the whole the movie is okay and serves rightly to its target Mass audiences.

 

Performances

Gopichand cakewalks through this role of a tough guy fighting against a dreaded don. He dons the role of cop in the movie but he hardly is seen in the Khaki dresses. He exhibits his ‘strength’ once again in dialogue delivery. Anushka is only there to provide skin show and she does it without much hesitation. Manoj K Jayan’s performance in the final in the second half is praiseworthy. Poonam Kaur as sister to Gopichand is cute but has not much role to do. Ali as Gymson and Krishna Baghavan in the role of a doctor steal the show with their hilarious comedy.

 

Music by Manisharma is big minus. Camerawork is okay. Cinematographer turned director Shiva seems to have good comedy flair. His narration in the first half is appreciable. 

Bottom-line

Sowryam runs in typical of Gopichand’s earlier films but this time it has better comedy and some hilarious moments. Despite familiar storyline and treatment, it is watchable. Second half and music should have better, but on the whole it is okay movie.

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