Rajanna movie review By Satyajith

Posted by Unknown Friday, December 23, 2011 at 2:11 AM

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Cast;
NagarjunaAkkineni ... Rajanna

Sneha

ShwetaMenon

Nasser

MukeshRishi

Ajay

Pradeep Singh Rawat

Supreeth

Ravi Kale

Annie ... Malli

Edward Sonnenblick ... Governor Curzon

Directed by:

VijayendraPrasad

Writing credits:

VijayendraPrasad screenplay & dialogue

VijayendraPrasad story

Produced by:

NagarjunaAkkineni .... producer

D. Supriya .... executive producer

Original Music by:

M.M. Keeravani

Cinematography by:

AnilBandari

Shyam K. Naidu

Art Direction by:

S. Ravinder

Visual Effects by:

NayeemMohammed .... tracking

Kaithapulla Ramakrishna .... matchmoving artist

Stunts:

S.S. Rajamouli .... action coordinator

Laxman Ram .... stunts

Selva .... stunts

Vijay .... stunts

Animation Department:

NayeemMohammed .... animator

Kaithapulla Ramakrishna .... animator

Music Department:

SravanaBhargavi .... playback singer

Chaitra .... playback singer

Deepu .... playback singer

M.M. Keeravani .... playback singer

KailashKher .... playback singer

Malavika .... playback singer

Ramya N.S. .... playback singer (as Ramya)

Chaitanya Prasad .... lyricist

Revanth .... playback singer

AnantSriram .... lyricist

AshokTejSuddala .... lyricist

Other crew:

DhaniElay .... publicity designer

Brent N. Hunter .... social media manager

B.A. Raju .... publicist

DeaShandera .... publicist

Production Companies:

Annapurna Studios

Distributors:

RR Moviemakers (2011) (India) (theatrical)

Special Effects:

EFX

Firefly Creative Studio

Other Companies:

Vel Records soundtrack

Story;
Its nothing about "Rajanna",Its rather about a girl Mallama,Dauther of Rajanna saved by Sambaia,The movie should have been named Mallama rather than Rajanna as given the screen space the girl enjoys than Nag,Coming back to the story This Girl is saved by Samabai when Sneha wife of Rajanna is Murdered for revenge by Dorsaani,And the hardships faced by Sambaia by bringing up Mallama ,hidding the fact that she is the daughter of Rajanna, Dorsani guesses this and Sambaia gets killed while Nazar the music teacher saves her,the rest of the story goes like Mallama wants to meet PM Nehru and after she reaches Delhi this stupid Mallama writes a letter to Nazare and Dorsani finds this and Kidnaps Nazer and Mallama in a same room with a loose roof ;p,and here we get the flashback of Rajnna and his bravery's blah blah blah,Then they escape and meet PM.

Performances:
No we are not Going to talk about nag first,it was the girl Mallama who steal ed the show with her innocence,She definately will sipe all the awards for Child actress,She is brilliant,and she wills the frame with her presence,Most of the songs in Rajnna are about her or around her,then comes our Nag his performance is neither good nor Bad,his voice doesnt have the intensity of a freedom fighter,though the action sequences by SS rajamouli saved his some lime light,Other cast like ajay ,nazer,Pradeep Singh Rawat ,Supreeth ,Ravi Kale did a fine job and were apt for the roles unlike Nag.Sneha was good and rest fitted fine.

Positives;
Annie (mallama)
Music(MM Keravani)
BGM( " )
Action Sequences

Negatives:
Nag tried to play a alluri seetha ramaraju and all but went futile
Too many songs
Voilence
Some typical errors like songs of Maya Bazar being played before the period

Analysis:
First half was slow but had good music and songs and the story kept in the same pace till the intermission,Exactly before the Interval Nag makes a superb action episode and kills all the britishers and with his childish voice evokes some patroitic dialouges and the 1st half gets completed,The second half goes slow again but the story unfolds fast with Flashback of Rajanna and all,Vei Vei song remains the higlight while Nag shakes his leg in the other song,well who cares,nags hairstyle was too bad,he badly needs a comb,and a action sequence in 2nd half is good and Rajamouli Mark is seen,Flasback stops suddenly and the audience are dumb struck how Rajanna died? Meanwile Mallama meets PM the film gets over,Vijayendra Prasad"s second venture as a director after Sri Krishna 2006 with a honesh attempt like this is apriciatble and so Does Nag for not only selecting a movie which has less screen place but even Producing it.

Rating;
3/5
1 for Mallama
1 for MM Keravani
1 for the whole effort in bringing a periodic film and Action episodes by SS Rajamouli

By
Satyajith