Saripodhaa Sanivaaram Review – With right casting, technical crew, especially the editing and background score by Jakes bejoy, versatile Nani helming it and Vivek Athreya sticking to the formula brilliantly well – here’s a winner of the week at box office despite a few lapses
writes Rajeshwari Kalyanam
Saripodhaa Sanivaaram – The film starts with flash back – as most action films of the day do. But here is the story of a young boy that makes the premise interesting. Chinnu has no control over his anger until his dying mother asks him to postpone his anger to just one day of the week and take action only after analyzing whether the anger is justified or not. She however dies without resolving the anger issue he has. Surya (Nani) grows up into this able government employee selling LIC policies throughout the week except for Saturday, That one day is reserved for beating up people who he continues to be angry with. And, this he does for the sake of random strangers, who he adopts as his own in order to help them.
And, it is left to his father (Saikumar) to deal with his problem. There is his aunt’s daughter for whom he cares a lot and continues to love even as a grown up Surya. His aunt moves away from them to escape a violent husband when he is still a kid, and now lives with her daughter under changed names. Meanwhile Surya keeps looking for them but fails to track them down.
They return to Sokulapalem and the daughter all grown up now has a changed name Charulatha (Priyanka Mohan) and she joins the police department as Constable. Manning the police station is the notorious officer Daya (SJ Suriya). His anger is of another kind. He is angry with his elder brother, who is a politician and refuses to let him have ownership over a piece of land. The policeman takes that anger on innocent people of Sokulapalem (the once upon a time area known for thieves which now houses hardworking poor people).
What happens when these two different kinds of anger of Surya and Daya clash? How does that impact the people of Sokulapalem, who have always lived in fear? What about Surya’s love story where the villain is his own anger? These are the questions gradually answered along the almost 3-hour screenplay that Vivek Athreya weaves quite engagingly. For a director who is known for his soft love stories – here’s a massive shift into action genre that Vivek quite easily manages to crack. With right casting, technical crew, especially the editing and background score by Jakes bejoy, and versatile Nani helming it, and Vivek Athreya sticking to the formula brilliantly well – here’s a winner of the week at box office.
The highlights of Saripodhaa Sanivaaram include well-choreographed action sequences, comic touches in the first half, references to Nani and Samantha’s hot combination in Eega for entertaining the fans, a heroine who has a meaty role in the script, editing that pushes the movie forward intelligently even while pulling together the various storylines towards one logical end, background score giving an edge to the narrative especially in the elevation scenes and in sequences where Nani and Surya clash – all contribute to the much anticipated mass action film of Nani. The only undoing of this otherwise well-crafted screenplay is the length.
What can’t be told within two and half hours or even less preferably can hardly be told in three hours. In today’s time and age – wonder what makes film directors believe that audience’s attention can be held with long drawn action sequences that can easily be edited out when their absence will hardly impact the story? Yet again a director succumbs to temptation and one leaves the theatre with a nagging feeling of what if the film was 30 minutes less. What if the attention to action sequences was slightly shifted to writing down a more impactful climax.
That said one cannot deny the overall salability of the film. Saripodhaa Sanivaaram is a good film to watch over the weekend, especially if you like Nani and action films.
