Potugadu Movie Review
Movie: Potugadu
Rating: 3/5
Director: Pavan Wadeyar
Behind the screens
Manchu Manoj who is desperate to score a hit on silver screen after Bindas, teamed up with sandalwood director Pawan Wadeyar to turn Potugadu. Pawan is debuting in Telugu with the remake of sandalwood hit Govindaya Namaha, while Manoj himself is in full romantic mood with hot beauties Simran Mundi, Sakshi Chaudari, Anu Priya and Stacy who are ready to scorch on silver screen. Let us see what is the power of Potugadu on silver screen.
Story Line
Govindu (Manchu Manoj) hailing from traditional brahmin family turns play boy rather than intelligent boy contrary to expectations. He decides to commit suicide and selects a good location. On his suicide mission he meets Venkat (Posani Krishna Murali), a software engineer who plans to end his life due to love failure. After getting to know Venkat's love story, Govindu reveals the reason behind his suicide attempt. Govindu narrates his story which is full of romances with a brahmin girl Vaidehi(Simran Mundi),muslim girl Mumtaz (Sakshi Chaudari), foreigner Stacy (Rachel) and Christian Mary (Anu Priya). To find out why Govindu who happily enjoying with four girls tries to commit suicide, one should watch the film on silver screen.
Star Shine
Manoj came out with a rocking performance. He showed his full power in this mass role. His comedy timing his perfect and in dialogue delivery his voice resembles his dad Mohan Babu. He should take care of his growing weight and also improve upon his expressions. Coming to debutantes all girls gout one song each with Manoj. Foreigner Rachel will endear herself to masses with her sizzling red hot treat on silver screen. She shed all her inhibitions with her out and out glamour treat. Sakshi Chaudari as a musilm girl got a meaty role. She shone in performance as well as acting. Even Anu Priya and Simran looked hot in their roles. Sunil with his voice over attracted all. Others like Shayazi Shinde, Ali, Vinod Kumar, Chandra Mohan, Satyam Rajesh, Srinivas Reddy,Tagubotu Ramesh got very small roles and they performed well.
Analysis
Director Pawan Wadeyar from the beginning said that script is the hero in his film. He proved it that with strong script and intelligent screenplay and direction, viewers will forget small mistakes and enjoy the film. He loaded the film with full comedy and except for ten minute fight in the climax and one in the middle, it is an out and out entertainer.
Pace of the film is quite good and never in the film there is one boring scene. When viewer feels bored the very next moment a comedy scene appears. Manoj after a long time selected a script that is suitable for him and he came out trumps. By having songs and dialogues targeting masses filmmakers made their intent clear. However only thing that goes negative is undue criticism of not one but all religions Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Everything depends on how they react. Some scenes in second half would have been handled in a more better way.
Technical
Production values are good. Achu Rajamani's music and songs are good. Background score is quite fine. Srikanth's cinematography is beautiful. MR.Varma's editing could have been better in the second half.
Movie Marks
Overall Potugadu is an enjoyable entertainer that you can watch!
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