Movie Name: Maa Nanna Superhero
Rating: 2.5/5
Cast: Sudheer Babu, Shayaji Shinde, Aarna, Raju Sundaram, Harsha vardhan, Shashank, Sai Chand, Vishnu Oi,Jhansi
Director: Abhilash Reddy
Produced By: Sunil Balusu
Release Date: October 11th, 2024
Story:
A heartwarming family drama about a father’s search for his son named Johnny ( Sudheer Babu ), who is on his own journey with his foster father ( Shayaji Shinde ). In this journey towards trying to solve the problems caused by his foster father, the conflict arises and the rest of the story talks about how he meets his biological father ( Sai Chand ).
Sudheer Babu gives another strong performance with emoting well in the scenes involving his both fathers.Sayaji Shinde and Sai Chand do provide strong supporting performances with them navigating the soul and emotional conflict of the story. At one scene between Sudheer Babu and Shayaji Shinde in the house involving extreme negative complex emotions between both the characters comes out really good backed by solid acting of Shayaji Shinde wherein his emotional past and turmoil is shown on to audience and establish a great character arc and set up for the story.
Sai Chand also does a great job in playing the joyful fun and a moral ethical character in this selfish world. Shashank is back on the silver screen after a long time and does give some comical relief in this heavy emotional drama. Raja Sundram does a great small cameo role in the film and just adds on the screen time of the film. On the flip side, Aarana who plays the love interest of Sudheer Babu in the film seems to be of no relevance to the story.
Analysis:
The film starts with a strong conflict point from the point of Sai Chand being a single father who had to leave his just born baby ( Sudheer Babu ) at an orphanage for three days in order to secure a full time secure job and look after his son very well. However, Sai Chand gets entangled in a Ganja Smuggling case and gets to serve 20 years prison sentence and his just born baby becomes an orphan and gets adopted by Shayaji Shinde. And the rest of the story follows on how Jhonny’s unhinged affectionate love towards his father and how he wishes to save his father from all his troubles and problems he has been causing. However, the interesting emotional premise and the interval conflict does not offer anything new to the story due to the flatly narrated screenplay and no respite for emotions.
The non-linear perspective screenplay that runs parallel between Sai Chand and Sudheer Babu seems to be very insignificant and loses its steam half-way backed by lack of emotion department and weak Background music score. The choppy editing completely falters to integrate the story and screenplay according to the need of the emotional depth in the story. After the interesting emotional interval setup, the film completely takes a different route with falling into a fun road-trip genre of the film in order to give some comic relief and become a feel good drama but this completely backfires with the screenplay unable to answer the actual conflict that set up initially and becomes melodramatic by the end of the film with Sai Chand being the moral compass of the story. The romantic track of Johnny just becomes a mere trope in the film and doesn’t add any value to the story of the film.
Positives:
- Sudheer babu and Shayaji Shinde Performance
- Emotional Scenes in 1st half between Shayaji and Sudheer babu
- Good emotional interval
- Decent 1st half
- Story
Negatives:
- Flat narration
- Weak BGM and songs
- Lack of Emotional Depth
- Irrelevance of Love Story
- Bad Second Half
- Melodramatic Dialogues
- Choppy editing
Verdict:
Maa Nanna Superhero is another average outing from Sudhir Babu in recent times. Inspite of giving great performance, the screenplay falters and lacks to hold upon emotions completely. Abhilash silver screen directorial doesn’t come out of his successful Loser web series hangover and that clearly translates into the weak screenplay writing in spite of having three writers for the film including him and the choppy editing adds more to his troubles.
