Cast:Ravi Teja, Siya, Subbaraju, Mumait Khan, Krishna Bhagwan, Surekha Vani, Supreet, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav, Rama Prabha, Sayaji Shinde etc
Music: Chakri
Cinematography: Sam K Naidu
Editing: Varma
Art: Chinna
Fights: Ram - Laxman
Produced by: DVV Danayya
Story, dialogues, and screenplay and directed by: Puri Jagannadh
Story
An assistant director Ravi (Ravi Teja) struggles to become a good director. He works under an established director Idli(Brahmanandam) but he goes through lot of troubles getting right launch pad. On other hand, Sandhya (Siya), a troupe dancer falls in love with him. he has dreams of becoming a full-fledged director at the earliest opportunity. Idli is directing a film with hero Mallik (Subbaraju) and heroine (Mumaith Khan). This film releases and flops putting producer (Sayaji Shinde) in a tight financial position.
Ravi, meanwhile falls in love with Sandhya (Seiya) who is a group dancer. However, a dada Yadu (Supreeth) also has an evil eye on her, which results in clashes between Ravi and Yadu.
Destiny and fate take over the lives of Ravi and Sandhya. She becomes a top heroine and Ravi also gets a chance to direct a film. The rest of the story deals with whether Ravi realizes his dream.
Analysis
Neninthe is all about movie industry and its pitfalls. Puri's 'bold' attempt to throw 'light' on industry's 'dark secrets' is not convincing. Those who are not well versed with the industry's inside stories would feel big bore. Except some 'movie buffs', the so-called satires on the movie industry cannot be related to. And the narration of the movie is very slow and there is hardly any story.
The biggest problem with the movie is that you can't empathize with the protaganist. Puri Jagannadh's hollow script, weak characterization of Ravi Teja and confused goal of the movie are main drawbacks. There are certain scenes that evoke right emotions and some scenes reflect Puri's intelligence, yet he has failed to translate them correctly on the whole. He also touches many aspects related to the movie industry. There is too much of everything that spoils the broth.
Performances
Ravi Teja carries the same rugged look that he has been showing in all the movies. For the character of a struggling assistant director, he looks odd with his 'street fighter' looks. Yet, he comes up with good performance in emotional scenes. Newcomer Siya is apt for 'junior artiste or dancer'. Mumait Khan's episode is silly. Subbaraju is okay. As 'die'-hard fan, Sairam Shankar stands out with his neat performance.
As in all Puri's movies, Shyam K Naidu excels with his right visuals in tune with the movie. Music by Chakri is ordinary excpet for the song of 'Krishna nagare mama..'
Puri Jagannadh is letdown by his own writing
(script). Characterization of Ravi Teja is so confusing. Sometimes he is sober and in the next scene he is aggressive and bashes up villain (in all about 10 times). He is failed to portray the angle of an underdog (a struggling director) winning his goal correctly. The so-called satires on the movie industry are also skewed.
Puri’s screenplay does not make the narration interesting or grip the attention of the viewers. A series of unrelated contrived incidents are more prone to confuse the audience, particularly when there is no identifiable storyline and improper characterization of the protagonists and the chief supporting characters.
There is nothing wrong with cinematography and editing. There is nothing special to write about those areas. Chakri for once composes unadulterated cacophony. At least sometime ago he used to compose music. As a random joining of scenes do not make a screenplay, random mixture of different sounds do not make music.
Bottom-line
Neninthe might seem 'bold' concept wise but it lacks punch. The treatment, hero's character, the supposed jokes, and satires all have not worked well. This film was meant to be a dig at the film industry on a lighter vein but it looked more like a autobiography with the most practical outlook. The personal thoughts and anguish of the director were clearly evident in few scenes but then if he was planning to entertain the crowds with his self story then it must be said that he has failed in his job. The brilliance of his direction was missing completely. While the first half of the film was quite haphazard, the second half gets into a direction but there is no element of gripping scenes or something that leaves an impact. The film will run due to its very different storyline and the fast paced canning but entertainment quotient or comedy aspect is nil. This will get its investment but there is nothing more to it.
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