Saguni Movie Review

Sakuni Review – Saguni Movie Review, Rating, Sakuni Telugu Film Review: Karthi’s latest Tamil film Saguni comes to Telugu as Sakuni. Praneetha, Prakash Raj, Radhika and others played important roles in this film. Here’s the review..

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Cast: Karthi , Pranitha
Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar
Producer: Bellamkonda Suresh
Directer: N. Shankar Dayal

Story:
Kamal Krishna (Karthi) comes to ask the help of ministers to save his house from being taken by the government for a railway project. But the chief minister (Prakash Raj) insults him and throws him out. Kamal decides teach him a lesson and starts a political game. How does he win over the chief minister forms rest of the story.

Analysis:
Sakuni is a political drama with entertaining elements. The film opens on an entertaining note and doesn’t bother about the story until the interval point. Actual story starts in the second half and it is mostly about the political game that is played by the hero.
Weak villain and poorly conceived scenes didn’t help the film to involve the audience in the story. Villain simply says that it is not right time to teach the hero a lesson. He doesn’t bother to take him out despite him being a threat to his power. Director didn’t try to narrate the story in a multidimensional format. The narration was too one sided in the entire film.
Director didn’t use the heroine thread in the second half. Roja’s character was completely forgotten in the second half. Villain doesn’t try to stop the hero and shatter his plans. Despite being a CM of the state he starts fearing that he would beat him.
This one dimensional dealing of the story didn’t generate interest and the film hardly engages. There were few references to the current state of politics and the people who follow politics may connect to those scenes. On a whole, except for few comedy dialogues Sakuni was disappointing.

Performances: 
Karthi was good in his role. Proper care should have been taken care on his characterization. There were sudden jumps in his character shades and that were not at all convincing. Praneetha was limited to songs. Prakash Raj was Okay. Radhika was good and so were Kota and another senior actor Nasser. Santhanam provided few laughs. Anushka played a cameo which was fine.

Technicalities:
Prakash Kumar’s music was disappointing. Songs were very bad and the background score was the biggest drawback. Cinematography was good. Editing was adequate. Production values were nice and rich.
Shankar Dayal lacks the skills of storytelling. He took an interesting plot but failed to execute it well. A gripping screenplay could have done world of difference to this film.
Plus Points :

Karthi looks handsome and he employs his killer smile to great effect in the movie. He has natural charm and his performance is relaxed. His efforts to dub in Telugu are worth appreciating and it actually works very well. He shoulders the movie admirably and gives a very convincing performance. Full Marks!

The second half of the film is quite entertaining and the pace is good. The satires on the political system and the schemes between the opposing political parties will work well with the audience, given the current political climate in the state. Prakash Raj is good as the evil CM Bhupathi. This performance is a cakewalk for him. Santhanam brings a few laughs at Auto Driver Rajini and his scenes with Karthi are good in places.

Radhika delivers a good performance as Ramanakka. Kota Srinivasa Rao and Nasser are pretty decent. Anushka and Roja have small cameos and it is good to see Anushka after a long time on the big screen.

Minus Points :

Pranitha is not very impressive as the lead heroine. She does not have the glamour to match Karthi and her role is actually quite small. Her romantic track with Karthi has been handled poorly. The first half of the film is a big let down and the story does not move forward much. The non linear narration can actually get a little boring in the first half.

The actual plot is not too impressive and if not for the entertaining political satires in the second half, the movie would have had a tough time. Though Karthi’s ancestral property is at stake in the film, the emotional conflict about this is not portrayed very well. A stronger emotional motive would have helped.

The songs act as mere speed breakers and their placement in the movie could have been better.

Final Word:
Sakuni may appeal to the entertainment seekers. There were few decently canned scenes and humorous dialogues. But this film demands an engaging narration and that was completely missing. You may watch it if you have nothing better to do.