Ninnu Kalisaaka – Telugu Cinema Review

1. Greatandhra.com

 

'Ninnu Kalisaaka' Review: Dumb Product

 

Film: Ninnu Kalisaaka
Rating: 1.5/5
Banner: Usha Kiron Movies
Cast: Santosh, Chaitanya, Pia, Deepa Shah, Krishnudu, Anita, M S Narayana, master Bharath, Siva Nageswara Rao, Tarun master, Jagapathi Babu etc
Music: Sunil Kasyap
Cinematography: B L Sanjay
Editing: Gautham Raju
Art: Vivek
Director: Siva Nageswara Rao
Producer: Ramoji Rao
Release date: 02/10/2009

Ramoji Film City banner, Siva Nageshwara Rao’s direction, Ramoji Rao’s production, youth oriented story with new faces….would certainly raise some expectations. At least audiences assume that there would be a matured narration with streamlined thought. Let us see how far those expectations were reached. 

Story:
A twisted tale of romance, the story is about two couples- Chandu (Chaitanya) and Bindu (Piya), Abhiram (Santosh) and Deepa (Deepasha). The story takes a turn when Abhiram and Bindu have to go to US on a project for three months and as fate would have it, they are on the same project.

Their friendship seems to be slowly developing into attachment and by the time the project is over, they feel that they are in love.

Are they really in love? What happens to the love that they are already in? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performances:
Chaitanya has got very photogenic features and proved his mettle in dance. He dances better than many experienced heroes. He shows a promising future. But he needs to concentrate on continuity aspect. He looked soft and tender in some scenes and rugged with muscles in other. He needs to maintain uniformity through out a movie which he should learn.

Santhosh Samrat is sharp in features but needs to prove with dances and other mass oriented stuff to continue as actor in future. Experimentation with costumes is also not done well with this actor. Even in dances he appeared with cotton trousers!!

Piya and Deepasha are just average both in looks and performance as per present standards in demand.

Dialogues are very weak and sometimes confusing with all C-grade material. They have also filled the heads of audiences with negative energy. Songs are also feeble except ‘Dilse Dilse..’ and SP Balu’s song. Re Recording is also over loud.

Director Siva Nageshwara Rao appeared in Amitabh Bachchan’s get up in the film but couldn’t deliver the required stuff due to weak script. Cinematography and art departments worked well all over.

Highlights:
Nothing

Disappointments:
Everything except MS Narayana’s dialogues regarding his son and wife

Analysis:
The purpose is not at all served. No one understood why the movie was made. The movie would have dealt with more sincerity and commitment to touch the hearts of audiences. It’s lacked in spirit and hence lost the purpose.

First half is disgusting and the second half is repugnant. It’s hard to digest for sincere lovers and the audience those are not into love would lose faith on that after watching this movie.

It’s a painful experience for audience and not at all a gainful product for makers.

Verdict: Poor film with Ramoji Rao’s stamp?!!!

 

2. cinegoers.com

Cast: Santosh Samrat, Chaitanya Krishna, Dipa Shah, Piaa Bajpai, Jagapati Babu, Krishnudu, Sivanageswara Rao and others.
Art: AM Vivek.
Banner: Ushakiron Movies Ltd.
Cinematography: BL Sanjay.
Editing: Goutham Raju.
Lyrics: Lakshmi Bhoopal, Anantha Sriram & Vanamaali.
Music: Sunil Kashyap.
Story: Jaikiran.
Producer: Ramoji Rao.
Screenplay, Dialogues & Director: Siva Nageswara Rao.
Release Date: October 02, 2009
It feels so damn disappointing when newcomers come into the movie industry with stars in their eyes and eventually land up in wrong projects. Four actors make their debut in Ninnu Kalisaka. This time you cannot say that they have zero talent. They have certain screen presence, tolerable looks and have the potential to do better work but inept direction and listless dialogues, poor screenplay mars the film. This story goes kaput from scene one for various reasons. It is visible that the technicians haven't worked too hard on the story, there is no originality. Every story gets predictable at some point of time but what is left to see when you know what's going to happen in scene one.
One cannot blame Ramoji Rao for dishing out routine flops one after the other, be it his age or propensity to spend or liking to create records, the quantity takes over quality. But what about directors like Sivanageswara Rao, why don't they learn from mistakes? Guess lot of people are saved from this torture as the film is not massively hyped or the director is over-rated. Ninnu Kalisaka ends up as a hugely unsatisfying film with absolutely no entertainment or even a chuckle.
There are two pairs in this story, a boy from one pair and the girl from another leave abroad for a project. Though they keep themselves in touch with their lovers they find themselves getting attracted to each other. By the time they return home they are in a dilemma..to solve this predicament there is Jagapati Babu who plays love guru to the befuddled youngster. Just when you think that the colleagues are going to announce their new-found love, the director presumably 'shocks' the audience, a piece of paper in which Jagapati Babu jots down a gospel enlightens their minds. It says first love is true love, the rest is attraction.
A juvenile story, dialogues that are clearly a hangover from a not so recent film, untrained actors makes the entire set up look like a play in a theatre. The director dresses up like a poor man's Shehenshah takes the audience's place and makes fun at their intelligence. He says for the first time he failed to judge right when even a pre-schooler can predict the next scene. With some more chiseling and honing of expressions, the actors are bound to do well. I'd avoid this but for my job.

 

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