Madhavan, Background Score, Bhumika, Naga Chaitanya Vs Maddy, Pre-climax portionsMadhavan, Background Score, Bhumika, Naga Chaitanya Vs Maddy, Pre-climax portionsSong placement, Slow first half, Editing, Dull Narration
Director Chandoo Mondeti of Kartikeya and Premam fame makes a return to screens after a year, with the most anticipated and much-delayed flick Savyasachi, starring Naga Chaitanya, who is desperately in need of a hit after the dud Shailaja Reddy Alludu, Has the team did it with Madhavan's villainy to the aid? Here's team AP Herald's exclusive first on net Savyasachi review.
Vikram (Naga Chaitanya) is a happy go lucky youngster who is an ad filmmaker, and his sister Bhumika share an emotional and close bonding. Chay suffers from the vanishing twin syndrome, and he falls for Niddhi Agerwal. Enters Madhavan who gives a huge trouble for Chay, as he kidnaps Bhumika's daughter. Now, Chay has to rescue his niece from Madhavan, and overcome his syndrome to destroy the evil Maddy, and find out why Madhavan does the crime and that is what's Savyasachi is all about.
The movie is totally ruled by Madhavan who plays a stylish and classy antagonist to perfection. Be it his menacing looks or the evil body language oozing villainy, Madhavan is a complete contrast to his lover boy roles and is a revelation, and though Hemachandra's dubbing looks odd, Maddy makes it appealing with his powerful performance. Chay as the protagonist with vanishing twin syndrome gets to play some mass sequences and is apt as the happy go lucky guy turned action mass hero. Bhumika Chawla delivers an emotional performance, and Niddhi Agerwal is limited to eye candy act. The rest of the cast including Vennela Kishore, Rao Ramesh and Satya are adequate.
Background score by the veteran MM Keeravani is massy ,meedha , Okkarante Okaru, and Why not are appealing. Yuvaraj's cinematography is top notch and captures the world of Madhavan and the songs shot in exotic locales, and the action episodes perfectly. Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao's taut editing makes Savysachi gripping in the second half.
After making a temple backdrop thriller with Karthikeya and a romantic tale with Premam, director Chandoo Mondeti is back with another thriller, this time dealing with the concept of Vanishing twin syndrome. The movie takes its time to set up the premise, establishing the character of Chay and the syndrome, and gains momentum with the arrival of Maddy, Thought the first half moves on a leisurely pace, towards the interval the movie gains pace and gets gripping. Its a perfect reentry for Maddy in Tollywood as he oozes menace and venom on screen, and his backstory is convincingly presented as a reason for his deadly nature, and Chandoo has perfectly made use of Chay's syndrome to extract a massy performance from him and has weaved an interesting screenplay in the second half with cat and mouse chases. Editing could have been better chopping some scenes in the first half and the song placements, but nevertheless, Chandoo Mondeti has delivered a fairly engaging flick thanks to the massy performance of Madhavan, and Chay is sure to get a temporary respite with Savyasachi. All said, Savyasachi is a decent action-packed thriller but still fails due to weak narration.
