Jai Bolo Telangana Movie Review

Rating : 3  

Caption : Only for Telangana Lovers

Movie Review:


Banner: Mahalakshmi Arts Productions

Starring: Jagapathi Babu, Smruti Irani, Nagineedu, AVS, Vidy

Director: N.Shankar

Producer: N.Shankar

Music: Chakri


Story:

Varshith, a Telangana student of Osmania University falls for her classmate Sahana, who hails from Vijayawada. Varshith is the son of Bandagi Gopanna (Jagapathi Babu), who sacrifices his life fighting for Telangana. Gopanna’s father and grandfather too earlier dies fighting for Telangana. Varshith’s mother Jayamma (Smriti Irani) wants his son to fight for separate Telangana state. Initially Varshit do not take the movement seriously, but later he realizes the problems of the village people and joins the Telangana movement. Varshith and Sahana gets parted due to regional issues. Will Varshit succeed or not forms the rest of the story.

Performances:

Jagapathi Babu did a small role which has hardly ten minutes of runtime. Jagapathi Babu did well but should’ve concentrated more on his dialect. His Telagana dialect sounds artificial. Smruti Irani is a complete miscast. Her expressions are out of place at times. Jhansi dubbed for her and she did a good job. Young actor Sandeep is good and carried off his role with ease. Meera Nandan also is fine with her performance and screen presence. AVS and Janardhana Maharshi sprinkled some fun moments in this serious film. Nagineedu did fine. Gaddar’s song will connect well to the targeted crowd.

Analysis:

Director Shankar has taken one sidedness in the story narration and he only highlighted the film with separate Telangana point. Shankar has mainly focused on the issues happened in December 2009. He has directly attacked few politicians through few dialogues in the film. The united Andhra agitation in Seemandhra was a direct attack on MP Lagadapati. However, the movie lacks interest as director has put his focus more on the love story. He has used most of the screen time for love story, which does not helped much for the main content. Poor Screenplay, dull climax and bad script are the negative points of the film.

Music plays an important role in such revolutionary films and Chakri has succeeded in that with Gaddar’s ‘Podusthunna Poddumeeda,’ KCR’s ‘Gaaradi Chesthundru’ songs. Cinematography was ok but editing could have been better.

Plus Points: Gaddar’s song,Dialogues ,Few heart touching scenes

Minus Points: Weak direction,One sidedness in the narration,screenplay and dull climax

Verdict: Jai Bolo Telangana might do well in the Telangana region, but overall director Shankar has come up with poor technical values, and single sided content. Jai Bolo Telangana is just for Telangana lovers.

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