Rating: 2/5
Banner: Shri Kirti Combines
Casting: Avasarala Srinivas, Madhurima, Allari Naresh
Direction: Vamsi
Music: Chakri
Producer: M.L. Padmakumar Chowdary
Story:
Ranga Babu (Allari Naresh) and Srinivas (Srinivas Avasarala) are childhood classmates. However, Ranga Babu’s financial inability turns him to work as a driver at Srinivas house. When Srinivas returns from US, his parents Gajapathi (Jeeva) and Sana thinks of his marriage. However, to test the girl, Srinivas comes up with a strange condition that he appears as a driver Ranga Babu, and ask Ranga Babu to be Srinivas. In what could snowball into a bitter controversy, Ranga Babu falls in love with Manimala (madhurtima). The plot unveils how Ranga Babu conveys the truth Manimala.
Analysis:
Director Vamsi himself said in a press conference that there’s no story in this film – perhaps the biggest hint. And indeed, there’s no story and the treatment in not good. Looks like Vamsi is in no mood to put any effort to script a gripping story and narrate. Allari Naresh once again shoulders the entire film with his humorous dialogues and conversations.
Vamsi lost his previous touch and this time around the focus was purely only on running the film with light hearted comedy. And in this process, Vamsi made a mess of things. Saradaga Kasepu spins on overindulged comedy making the characters too ridiculous.
The combination of Allari Naresh and Srinivas Avasarala did not go well. Their characters were not sketched properly. Particularly the heroine Madhurima’s romantic scenes with Allari Naresh were too close for comfort. You would be puzzled to know that this is the director who directed yesteryear classics like ‘Manchu Pallaki’, ‘Sitara’, ‘Anveshana’ etc.
Saradaga Kasepu is good in bits and pieces like cut to black, character’s body languages, natural flow of dialogues for evoking comedy, etc. And all these might fascinate the front rows.
Performances:
Allari Naresh comes up with decent performance, but again, his comedy is starting to become routine.
Srinivas Avasarala started to look very promising when he was arrogant. But when he started to behave rather differently and submissively, his character is absurd.
Lat word - Saradaga Kasepu might promise something initially, but the movie nails us as it progresses. Poor humor tracks, lack of gripping story, routine comedy tracks and pathetically scripted jesting scenes marks the movie.
