Film: Greeku Veerudu
Starring: Nagarjuna,Nayanatara,Meera Chopra
Director: Dasaradh
Producer: D Sivaprasad Reddy
Banner: Sri Kamakshi Kala Movies
Music: Thaman
Story
Chandu (Nagarjuna), an event manager in
US doesn’t believe in relationships and commitments. Maaya (Meera
Chopra) his assistant betrays him in business and as a result Chandu
gets stuck in financial troubles fined with a hefty price. His close
pals fail to help at the needed time and meanwhile he gets to know about
his family and his grandfather (K.Vishwanath) from India. Chandu flies
to India hoping to get his property share by acting well among his
family members for his own reasons. He gets to meet Sandhya (Nayantara),
who works for the ‘Make a Wish’ foundation and later falls in love with
her. The rest forms the crux of the story.
Performances
Nagarjuna makes a cool
entry and he is stylish and classy in the film. It is not erroneous to
say Nag beats many young heroes in terms of style and handsomeness. He
entertains with his comic timing, dances, romance and gets us connect to
the emotional scenes.
Nayanatara is beautiful
and as usual she scores in glamour and performance equally. A special
mention to her costumes, and her scenes with Nagarjuna have come out
well.
Meera Chopra in a brief
role is good, Brahmanandham brings laughs in the second half,
Thagubothu Ramesh is brief, K.Vishwanth is impressive, Sudha does a neat
job, Ashish Vidyardhi and Kota Srinivasa Rao are regular.
Technical Analysis
Thaman’s musical scores are pleasing and
melodious while the background score is impressive and an asset for the
film. The songs I hate Love Stories.., Osi Naa Bangaram are shot well.
Anil Bhandari’s cinematography is fine. CG and DI works are very poor;
Production values are not up to the standard.
Analysis
Greeku Veerudu is a neat family entertainer just like Dasaradh’s earlier films.
The first half of the film has few feel
good scenes. All the scenes between Nag and K.Viswanath are a good watch
and remind you of Dasaradh’s trademark family scenes. The emotional
scenes are well-shot but the problem is the pace of the film, which is
quite slow. Screenplay is not up to the mark and logic goes for a toss
at times. The interval is neat and the second half was again clean with
good entertainment provided if u bear some silly comedy scenes. Poor CG
shots adding to inconsistent screenplay spoils the experience of a feel
good movie. Nevertheless, Nagarjuna, Nayanathara and K.Vishwanadh give
their best performances making it a worth watch once.