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Story:
Venkat (Sriram) and 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 the education system in that college and he always contradicts the ideology of Virus. How does Paani make Virus realize the true sense of education forms the crux of this story.
Analysis:
Shankar didn’t try to make any changes to the original script. 3 Idiots has one of the best scripts and Shankar knows that making changes to the script may 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 original version. Only change that Shankar made is he added a mass masala song for Vijay fans. That is not necessary at all. Shankar succeeded in bringing out the feel and mood of 3 Idiots in to Snehitudu. The soul is not missing in this film and that is the saving grace.
Even audience who has already watched 3 Idiots may not complain about Shankar’s work. We should laud the great director’s respect for another director’s work. But the problem is with the star cast. It would be hard to digest Vijay in Aamir Khan’s role. Even the choice for Chatur Ramalingam’s character is bad.
Srikanth failed to bring the natural flavor that Madhavan added to the original film. Even Ileana failed to do a Kareena here. Sathya Raj is good to some extent. For those who have not seen the original Snehitudu will be a feel good entertainer. Only complaint is its runtime. It is over 3 hours and that must have been reduced a bit.
Performances:
Vijay is okay. Suriya might have been an apt choice. Ileana is fine. She failed to impress in key scenes. Jeeva is good and Sriram is average. Sathya Raj did a nice job. Sathyan in a key role is not up to the mark. Sunil’s dubbing covered his weaknesses to an extent. Rest of the cast did what was required.
Technicalities:
Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are just the translation of Hindi dialogues. Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa is pretty good. Editing by Anthony is Okay and Music by Harris Jairaj is a downer. Not a single song is worth listening. Background score is weak too. Production values are rich.
Shankar succeeded in bringing the right emotions. There are few truly witty scenes and there are some scenes that are moving. Despite sticking to the original Shankar shown his trademark in canning the songs on high scale. Shankar fans may not like to see him redoing others work. One gets a feeling that Shankar is too big a brand to remake this highly successful Bollywood film.
Final Word:
Snehitudu is a 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. So the success of this film will depend on how the others lap this up. As a film, Snehitudu is neatly made feel good entertainer. We have to wait for the commercial outcome of it.
Snehitudu Movie Rating: 3/5
Banner: Gemini Film Circuit
Casting: Jeeva, Vijay, Sri Ram, Ileana
Music: Harris jayaraj
Producer: Dil Raju
Direction: Shankar
Story:
Venkat (Sriram) and 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 the education system in that college and he always contradicts the ideology of Virus. How does Paani make Virus realize the true sense of education forms the crux of this story.
Analysis:
Shankar didn’t try to make any changes to the original script. 3 Idiots has one of the best scripts and Shankar knows that making changes to the script may 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 original version. Only change that Shankar made is he added a mass masala song for Vijay fans. That is not necessary at all. Shankar succeeded in bringing out the feel and mood of 3 Idiots in to Snehitudu. The soul is not missing in this film and that is the saving grace.
Even audience who has already watched 3 Idiots may not complain about Shankar’s work. We should laud the great director’s respect for another director’s work. But the problem is with the star cast. It would be hard to digest Vijay in Aamir Khan’s role. Even the choice for Chatur Ramalingam’s character is bad.
Srikanth failed to bring the natural flavor that Madhavan added to the original film. Even Ileana failed to do a Kareena here. Sathya Raj is good to some extent. For those who have not seen the original Snehitudu will be a feel good entertainer. Only complaint is its runtime. It is over 3 hours and that must have been reduced a bit.
Performances:
Vijay is okay. Suriya might have been an apt choice. Ileana is fine. She failed to impress in key scenes. Jeeva is good and Sriram is average. Sathya Raj did a nice job. Sathyan in a key role is not up to the mark. Sunil’s dubbing covered his weaknesses to an extent. Rest of the cast did what was required.
Technicalities:
Dialogues by Abburi Ravi are just the translation of Hindi dialogues. Cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa is pretty good. Editing by Anthony is Okay and Music by Harris Jairaj is a downer. Not a single song is worth listening. Background score is weak too. Production values are rich.
Shankar succeeded in bringing the right emotions. There are few truly witty scenes and there are some scenes that are moving. Despite sticking to the original Shankar shown his trademark in canning the songs on high scale. Shankar fans may not like to see him redoing others work. One gets a feeling that Shankar is too big a brand to remake this highly successful Bollywood film.
Final Word:
Snehitudu is a 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. So the success of this film will depend on how the others lap this up. As a film, Snehitudu is neatly made feel good entertainer. We have to wait for the commercial outcome of it.
Snehitudu Movie Rating: 3/5
Banner: Gemini Film Circuit
Casting: Jeeva, Vijay, Sri Ram, Ileana
Music: Harris jayaraj
Producer: Dil Raju
Direction: Shankar
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