Movie: Pelli SandaD
Rating: 1/5
Cast: Roshan, Sree Leela, K Raghavendra Rao, Rajendra Prasad, Prakash Raj
Director: Gowri Rnanki
Produced By: Madhavi Kovelamudi, Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prasad Devineni
Release Date: 15th October 2021
Roshan and Sre Leela starrer Pelli SandaD has got all the possible support from the industry. Megastar Chiranjeevi and Victory Venkatesh graced the pre-release function. Superstar Mahesh Babu launched the trailer and King Nagarjuna launched the teaser. The movie got great hype and promotions owing to the big names associated with it. But, does the movie have enough to actually translate the hype to box-office numbers? Let’s find out
Story: Vashishta (Roshan) is a happy-go-lucky pro-basketball player. Sahasra (Sree Leela) is your typical bubbly teenager as is the case with a number of actresses across films. The couple meets at a wedding and fall in love. Predicatably, Sahasra’s father doesn’t approve of the alliance. What happens next is a tedious and cliched set of scenes capturing Vashishta’s efforts to win his love
Performance: Just in his second film, Roshan looks shaky and amateurish in front of the camera. The dialogue delivery is robotic and the emotions conveyed are not natural. While the youngster is good in dancing skills, he still has a long way to go in terms of being a performer. Sri Leela doesn’t have much scope for performance and just has one job of staying glamorous on-screen which she does decently enough. The rest of the giant cast also has no real scope for performance apart from creating the ‘sandadi’.
Analysis: The movie packs a series of cliches throughout. Hero liking heroine and her father not approving is an age-old trope. So is filling the screen with character artists and featuring scenes after scenes which do not help in the movie’s progress at all. The movie looks and feels straight out of 80s or 90s and doesn’t provide us with anything new at all. The logic is something makers are least concerned about and you would keep waiting for the story to turn as trendy as the title has been made to look.
Plus Points:
Production values
Minus Points:
Cliched storyline
Silly scenes
Illogical scenes
Verdict: Pelli SandaD is nothing but a 2 and half-hour long tribute to director K Raghavendra Rao. He makes his acting debut and that probably is the biggest USP of the film. Roshan has the raw material to be the mainstream hero but he has to be careful with the script choice. Stay clear of this and maybe catch it on OTT if you’re a fan of the Raghavendra Rao genre.
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