Thursday, September 12, 2019
Movie Review - Saaho...
Movie: Saaho (Telugu)
Directed: Sujeeth
Produced: Vamsi Krishna Reddy/Pramod Uppalapati/Bhushan Kumar
Story: Sujeeth
Music: Ghibran/Tanishk Bagchi/Guru Randhawa/Badshah/Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Cast: Prabhas/Shraddha Kapoor/Neil Nitin Mukesh/Jackie Shroff/Chunky Pandey/Mahesh Manjrekar/Tinnu Anand/Prakash Belavadi/Murali Sharma/Mandira Bedi/Arun Vijay/MP Michael/Evelyn Sharma/Jacqueline Fernandez/Vennela Kishore/Supreeth
Directed: Sujeeth
Produced: Vamsi Krishna Reddy/Pramod Uppalapati/Bhushan Kumar
Story: Sujeeth
Music: Ghibran/Tanishk Bagchi/Guru Randhawa/Badshah/Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
Cast: Prabhas/Shraddha Kapoor/Neil Nitin Mukesh/Jackie Shroff/Chunky Pandey/Mahesh Manjrekar/Tinnu Anand/Prakash Belavadi/Murali Sharma/Mandira Bedi/Arun Vijay/MP Michael/Evelyn Sharma/Jacqueline Fernandez/Vennela Kishore/Supreeth
Saaho - In an empire (Waaji City/Mahishmati) whose legal heir (say Bijjala) is handicapped and cannot run it, adopts a son (say Amarendra) and takes care of him along with his son (say Bhallala/legal successor of the throne) and eventually passes on the baton to him, owing to his reputation. This makes the legal son angry and he develops grudge over the adopted son and plans to kill him. He eventually succeeds but unknown to him, is the fact that the adopted son's kid (say Mahendra) is brought up hidden from all and is made ready to take the throne. He has the support of an elderly person and a faithful associate (say Kattappa) of the adopted son, who helps this kid to gain access to all the needed information; to avenge his father's death and then take the throne as the worthy successor (if not legal). Hmm... this story (which took 2 years in making) sounds very familiar as that of the magnum opus 'Baahubali' which was made for over 5 years and raked huge profits. Of course, it does and may be the reason why its Director has been thanked during the title credits of 'Saaho' (even this title is picked from a famous song in 'Baahubali' movie). We even have characters similar to those of Baahubali such as Shraddha (Avantika), Jacqueline (Item Girl) and Goons (Kalakeyas) as well. This story Saaho (also the name of the Hero in the film, similar to that of Baahubali; eventually both portrayed by Prabhas) is an ultra-modern take on the epic of Baahubali and with bad songs and a poor background score; has got very little to score. Not much care has been taken on portraying the Lead as a Hero (not so good hair style and repetitive dressing style), who looked as a big drunkard in most part of the movie and the action scenes/sequences are one too many to digest. Seems an effort made to fulfill a long pending zest; but the outcome on the whole is just. And the rest, at your own interest.
# posted by Srikanth @ 5:18 PM 
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