Snehitudu Movie Review

snehitudu movie review

Story:


Venkat (Sriram) & Nikhil (Jeeva) start the search for their missing friend Paani (Vijay) and Venkat recalls their college days during the journey. Paani, Venkat and Nikhil join in a prestigious Engineering college run by a strict principal who is ‘dearly’ called as Virus (Sathya Raj) by the students. Paani doesn’t like the way that the education system in that college and he always contradicts the ideology of Virus. How does Paani makes us  Virus realize the true sense of education forms the crux of this story.

Analysis:


Shankar didn’t try to make any big changes to the original script. 3 Idiots has one of the best scripts and Shankar knows that making changes to the script might spoil it. Hence, the top director respected the original writer and director Rajkumar Hirani’s work and faithfully followed the same for this remake.

Every scene and almost every dialog is a rip off of his original version. Only change that Shankar made is he added a superb mass masala song for Vijay fans. That was not necessary at all. Shankar succeeded in bringing out the feel and mood of 3 Idiots in to this Snehitudu. The soul is not missing in this film and that is this saving grace.

Even audience who has already watched 3 Idiots may not complain about Shankar’s work. We should loud the great director’s respect for another director’s work. But the problem is with the star cast. It would be very hard to digest Vijay in Aamir Khan’s role. Even the choice for Chatur Ramalingam’s character is very bad.

Sriram failed to bring the natural flavor that Madhavan added to the original film. Even Ileana failed to do a Kareena kapoor here. Sathya Raj is good upto some extent. For those who have not seen the original Snehitudu will be a very feel good entertainer. Only complaint  its runtime. It is over three hours and that must have been reduced a bit.


Performances: 

Vijay is ok. Suriya might have been an aptional choice. Ileana is good. She failed to impress in some scenes. Jeeva is nice and Sriram is average. Sathya Raj did a good job. Sathyan in a key role is not to the mark. Sunil’s dubbing covered his weaknesses to some extent. Rest of the cast did what was not required.

Technically:

Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are just  translation of Hindi dialogues. Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa is intresting and good. Editing by Anthony is Okay and Music by Harris Jairaj is  downer. Not  single song is worth listening. Background score is weak also. Production values are very rich.

Shankar succeeded in bringing the right emotions in  this movie. There are few truly witty scenes and there are some scenes that are moving better. Despite sticking to the original Shankar shown his trademark in canning the songs on rich scale. Shankar fans may be not like to see him redoing others work. One gets a feeling that Shankar is too big a brand to remake this highly successful BTown film.

Finally:

Snehitudu is an message oriented entertainer with great script value. Mass audience may not connect with the concept and proceedings and most of the city audience have already seen the original one. So the success of this film will depend on how the others lap this movie up. As a film, Snehitudu is neatly made very feel good entertainer. We have to wait for the commercial outcome.

Snehitudu Movie Rating--->3/5


By v.vinod