'Anni Manchi Sakunamule' Telugu movie review: Nandini Reddy's film starring Malvika Nair and Santosh Soban is an … – The Hindu

Watching Nandini Reddy’s Telugu movie Anni Manchi Sakunamule (AMS) is taking a stroll alongside the winding roads of a hill and stepping right into a gradual meals cafe. The meals will take some time however till then, you may savour the nice and cozy muffin over a mug of espresso and strike up a dialog with individuals who run the cafe, curious to know their story. Not all the dialog is fascinating and requires some endurance. Nonetheless, a transferring payoff occurs in the direction of the top. Beneath the feel-good packaging of a hillside city, melodious music, affable folks and loads of speak about meals, the writer-director serves a stable drama about individuals who need to rise above their very own misgivings. 

This can be a story of two sparring households with a bunch of characters and loads of dialog. It’s befitting that little or no is spoken within the final 10 to fifteen minutes. There are tears, smiles and acknowledgements of the shifts in relationship dynamics within the characters performed by Malvika Nair, Santosh Soban, Naresh, Rao Ramesh, Rajendra Prasad, Gautami and others. With it comes the realisation that in the end folks matter, not disputes which might be handed down from one era to a different. Because the characters quieten down, music composer Mickey J Meyer takes over and soaks the frames in mellifluous notes. The opening phrases of the title music which interprets to ‘all the pieces is an efficient signal’ is aptly reiterated.

The premise of AMS is cinematic with lots
of drama. We get a documentary-style of brief story in regards to the fictional hill city, Victoria Puram, and its espresso property patronised by Queen Victoria. Reduce to the current and there are two households — led by characters performed by Rajendra Prasad at one finish and Rao Ramesh and his brother Naresh on the different — combating over the espresso property. What are the percentages that the ladies from these two households will arrive on the hospital one wet night time, across the identical time, to ship their respective kids? And what are the percentages that one thing out of a latest Trivikram Srinivas film may occur right here? The narrative desires us to consider that all the pieces occurs for a purpose and it’s all a great signal.

When you get previous this cinematic premise, a slice-of-life drama in regards to the two households unfolds. Aarya (Malvika Nair) is the odd one out within the household that’s beneficiant with cash, and subsequently in debt, and Rishi (Santosh Soban) is the happy-go-lucky man in distinction to his father and uncle who’re calculative. What do they are saying about taking somebody out of their milieu however not having the ability to change their interior selves? A coming-of-age friendship story of Aarya and Rishi is narrated over time, she being the assured and pragmatic one of many two and he inevitably the one who invitations hassle, inflicting a rift of their friendship. 

The hillside setting is a blessing. There may be a lot drama within the lives of the 2 households that the atmosphere is a comforting issue. Aarya loves the cheese sandwiches despatched by Rishi’s mother whereas he gorges on the banana bread made in Aarya’s father’s bakery. Every of their relations is given a personality trait. A mom (Gautami) who makes do along with her listening to impairment, a father (Rajendra Prasad) who’s oblivious to the injury he’s doing to his son by evaluating him with a wiser cousin, an adopted daughter (Ramya Subramanian) who’s bestowed with the identical heat as that of the organic daughter, a son-in-law (Vennela Kishore) who candy talks and pushes his luck along with his in-laws and an aged matriarch (Sowcar Janaki) who likes to reside life on her personal phrases… there are a number of others. It takes a while to get conversant in them. Ashwin Kumar (with voice by Rahul Ravindran), Thagubothu Ramesh, Jhansi and several other others additionally come and go.

Nandini additionally throws in a visit to Italy that helps to distinction the personalities of Aarya and Rishi. When push involves shove and he or she too belittles Rishi the way in which his father does, it shatters him. Conditions like these are nicely written (screenplay by Nandini, dialogues by Lakshmi Bhupala) and each Malvika and Santosh present they’re good suits for his or her respective components.

Nonetheless, the tightly knit drama revolving round a number of characters will get a tad generic within the later parts as if to force-fit some entertaining components. The Andhra-Telangana meals struggle and the music that ensues have their moments however the relations taking turns to sing and dance to older Hindi and Telugu hits at a marriage look like a Sooraj Barjatya movie of the 90s or a Karan Johar film of the early 2000s. A proposal on the sidelines holds no attraction. A number of the humour can also be bland.

I puzzled why the story wanted as many characters since not everybody provides to the large image convincingly. Anni Manchi Sakunamule is gorgeous when it stays targeted on Rishi, Aarya and their mother and father. The climax, although, tries to make up for all of the missteps. 

Shivam Rao’s manufacturing design provides the hillside houses an old-world attraction and cinematographers Sunny Kurapati and Richard Prasad leverage the cosy vibes of the hill station. The movie in the end belongs to a number of the actors. Malvika Nair is fantastic because the bratty, controlling teen who grows as much as be a pointy businesswoman and likewise appears to be like at relationships afresh. She wants little or no dialogue and her eyes can do the speaking, as typical, and he or she solely will get higher at it on this movie. Santosh Soban is a positive match as a cheerful dreamer. Veterans Rajendra Prasad, Rao Ramesh and Naresh are reliable as all the time. Although Urvashi is forged in a barely over-the-top half, she makes it work.

Anni Manchi Sakunamule is an imperfect but heat drama of relationships.

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