Om Namo Venkateshaya – Movie Review

Cast:
Nagarjuna, Anushka, Saurabh Jain, Rao Ramesh

Nagarjuna Akkineni is back With another devotional movie. Let’s see what this duo combination of Nag and Raghavendra Rao worked well or not.
Story:-   

A small boy named Rama ( Nagarjuna ) comes in search of God. He finds an ashram, and there a teacher guides him. Then Rama goes into a deep meditation to see the God at least once. In search of the God Rama visits Tirupati and he becomes the great devotee of Lord Venkateswara, and the rest of the story runs between the God and Rama and what happened to him and the greatness of the Lord Venkateswara Swamy.

A small boy named Rama ( Nagarjuna ) comes in search of God. He finds an ashram, and there a teacher guides him. Then Rama goes into a deep meditation to see the God at least once. In search of the God Rama visits Tirupati and he becomes the great devotee of Lord Venkateswara, and the rest of the story runs between the God and Rama and what happened to him and the greatness of the Lord Venkateswara Swamy.
Performances:-

Nagarjuna: –  He is the heart of the Movie. Nagarjuna Akkineni is back w ultimate performance. The way he maintained his role is really good. He knows very well where to perform and where to maintain the

He is the heart of the Movie. Nagarjuna Akkineni is back with an ultimate performance. The way he maintained his role is really good. He knows very well where to perform and where to maintain the pace especially for these devotional characters. His previous Shirdi Sai doesn’t have much scope for the acting but in this movie we can almost see Nag’s one of the career best performance.

Anushka:-   She is OK for this role. Though she looked

She is OK for this role. Though she looked over weighed but that doesn’t do any damage for her character. She played the role of Krishnamma and she has only little scope for her to act.

Saurabh Jain: –  He played the role of Lord Venkateswara Swamy. He is perfectly fit for his looks. But

He played the role of Lord Venkateswara Swamy. He is perfectly fit for his looks. But Comibg to his performance its just OK. In some of the scenes the dubbing doesn’t worked well.

Other characters Raavu Ramesh in a negative role has got some dialogues. Sandeep is just a guest appearance. Jagapati Babu also did a guest role. And all the other cast performed up to their extent

Technical aspects:-
Director: – K. Raghavendra rao is the director of the film. No doubt he can make the devotional films better. But his same way of taking reminds us of his previous movie Annamayya as this one also is about Lord Vebkateswara . Especially in the song of Pragya Jaiswal his taking reminds us of his old times with all flowers and fruits and making to look the heroine gorgeous. But most of the part he hasnt diverted the movie and just concentrated on the story line. Overall its just a good devotional movie made by the Darshakendra.

Music: –  

MM. Keeravani is the soul of the film. His music is a huge plus for the movie. All the songs are good. The background score is really good. Especially in preclimax scenes and almost the climax scene the music makes us to feel like we too are devoted to the good. Overall keeravani is back with a beautiful album again.

DOP:-   S. Gopal Reddy is the cinematographer for this movie. The photography is really good. The whole shots and the scenes were

S. Gopal Reddy is the cinematographer for this movie. The photography is really good. The whole shots and the scenes were picturized beautifully and the sceneries are really beautiful. The scenes were shot as if they were in Tirupati only.

J.K. Bharavi has written the story for this movie. As these combo of Nag Raghavendra rao, Keeravani, J.K. Bharavi created magic previously now also they succeeded to some extent only.

Editing by Gowtham Raju is just OK. Some scenes could have been edited which didn’t helped the movie.
What’s good:-

The first real thing in the film is no doubt Akkineni Nagarjuna. He is back with his awesome performance. M.M. keeravani is another plus for the movie. Nagarjuna is the heart and Keeravani is the soul of the film . Th cinematography is also good. Second half of the movie is really good and the pace starts and doesn’t end till the climax. Pre climax and climax scenes are good and Nag’s performance made them to watch it with a big eye. Production values are also good.

What’s bad:-  

Thin story line is the backdrop. First of the movie is just OK. The movie is of the same old taking of Raghavendra rao’s previous devotional films. Editing could have been done.

what should have been done:

If this movie could have been made quite interestingly with some more devotional scenes it could have been better. Jagapati Babu’s character is of no use. Even the song shot on him and Anushka looks like a speed breaker in the movie. Other characters didn’t have much scope for the acting. Lacking of some emotional scenes also a minus fircthe movie.

Final Verdict:-
This movie is definitely a good devotional movie. His fans feels really great for doing such films. You can watch this movie especially for Nagarjuna performance and to listen good music of Keeravani. Just go and enjoy with your family this devotional movie about Lord Venkateswara Swamy and Hathi Ram Baba.

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