"Manam" ... A delightful watch

Most south Indian film industries, in fact Bollywood also, produced few talents monarched over decades with tremendous stardom and their heir ap'parence passed over. Now their younger generations are tossed on our face and seriously it’s been an eyesore to have a look at our so called heroes with ugly faces and an elementary level action. Oh! it is not limited there. Few of them have princely-syndrome clearly noticed during interviews, sometimes we feel to smack on their faces in order to bring them back to reality. Stereotype action, rayalaseema faction backdrops, or mafia, unrelated comedy patches, graphic fight sequences and heavy metal music, there has been an endless list making us back out to go to theater. Movie makers, please make a note while revising your failures. Audience are not fools. We don’t expect an intellectual movie genre, but a convincing script is enough for us.  

With this said, another pleasant smooth sailed entertainer is “Manam”. I know it been too late to quote now, since it was a block-buster hit when I last visited Hyderabad. I must say, after a long long time, I have watched such a beautiful screen play, even with that laughable, recycled, and rather unconvincing reincarnation plot, the director did a great job. Hats off!! During my watch, it I felt like a telugu Karan Johar movie, what with those luxurious backdrops and all! The hated heavy metallic Anup Ruben’s music also got to mild pitch and blended well with the background score, at places resembled maestro’ Mani Sharma style. Only one experimental song with children’s vocals stood out of all the routine. 
All that three generation of actors from a single family hype and that studio frameworks may attract the viewers, but seriously we audience expect a little acting so we can see only the characters instead of the person itself. Earlier, I don’t know why I hated Nagarjuna, but I must give credit as the story was carried solely on the back of his shoulders and he did a fantastic job. He lashed out like a child at one scene, and you feel a cute feeling blossomed inside your heart and filled with warm thoughts. No words needed to describe late ANR’s, for he is a trend setter till his death. I think many more films roll out this coming year following behind this film. Only the weak link is Naga Chaitanya ji. I am

observing him since his debut days ‘Ye maya chesave’. I only watched it because of Goutam menon and Samantha. He didn’t improve an ion and now I put him in my block list. Sometimes his facial expressions are hardly watchable, he neither had the talent of his grand pa nor the charisma of his father.

Samantha was so cute in her bangs and step-cut hairstyle in the contemporary generation and Shriya did justice to Rama lakshmi portrayal. At times, the dubbing doesn’t match lip-synch or the expressions, some places it may be ruled out as technical fault but others might be the over involvement of emotions during the dub than in action. At the end of the day, only beautiful screen play remains in our heart. As most directors pick a line of story writer and mould a crap out of it, Vikram delighted us with his beautiful screenplay as a refreshment in recent years.

I forecast few ‘Nandi’ s to bag as it was the final tribute and act by ANR.