Just a spoiler, please watch the film "Back To The Future" which I believe is a huge inspiration for this film. A 3/5 for a film that I liked and I hope to see such endeavors being encouraged in Telugu Film Industry. Of all the stories that were put in, I liked the story of Seeta (Nagarjuna) and Rama (Shriya) in the village. This was a very simplified and spoon-fed screenplay and that's the reason I believe it worked. It would have been really tough had this been complicated. It involves multiple flashbacks and the same people wearing different characters. It's an experiment in Telugu Film Industry and I am happy it has paid off. Nagarjuna again proved to be a good producer who wishes to take challenges and it was heartening to see this script having such a huge cast. But, all those can be forgiven if the sheer effort of writing down this piece and putting all the pieces together are considered.
The film is not devoid of flaws, it has some huge and big holes. Dialogues between ANR and Naga Chaitanya were a bit overboard I felt. I cannot remember even one dialog which I thought was out of place or uncalled for. He showcased his skills very effortlessly and he just went along with the flow. Nagarjuna as a surprise acted well and was the best among the lot. Produced by Akkineni Family, this films uses many things about them, from their names to fitting whole of the family in a frame. So I could appreciate some genuine feelings which made me feel for the characters. Thankfully, I did not take my brain inside the movie theater, so I just went with the flow and reacted for whatever was happening, without thinking anything. The screenplay, though inspired is well written to adapt to the nativity of Telugu audiences. I liked this film and it was wonderful to see a legend, ANR for the last time on silver screen. Definitely worth a watch on the big screen, with your family, perhaps even more than once. The music is hummable too, and I'm quite glad to note that the technical aspects highlight themselves subtle in a piece of work that could have gotten know more for the presence of a thespian and his family rather than anything else. His latter generation heirs in acting can never quite reach that pinnacle, as evidenced by their body of work, but the goal is quite lofty, so one cannot fault them either, since all of them do serviceable jobs (except for the one in the quite needless cameo). The performances are all way above-average, and befitting a work such as this, and this plays as a perfect swan-song to the dearly departed acting juggernaut of the yesteryear, Akkinneni Nageswar Rao.
Good news is that this flick tries hard to address each one of those, and is successful more often than not, that I am tempted to overlook those instances in which it fails.
Small details like the ones highlighted here are lost, more often than not, and a nitpicking critic dwells on them to no avail. In each iteration, there is a callback to each of those, that act as a refresher to the audience as well, and bring a smile to the lips. Considering the loops the tale goes through, another aspect that the helmer needs to be appreciated for is the attention paid to details like individual character quirks. It never calls attention to itself, which is a feat by itself. The skill of the cinematographer and the production designer (and the art designer) should be placed on a pedestal for this one, since the look of the movie, even during the period sequences, is almost perfect. One more point of note - each frame looks prefect. Due credit to the writer/helmer for not succumbing to such temptation. The fact that this has 3 generations of actors leading the setup is incidental, though it helps, and it is indeed ironic noting the applicability of the lines written for the characters, versus the real- life personas of the celebrity family members portraying them, and its surprising that the overwhelming feeling is something nice, rather than something typically overdone, which this could've devolved into quickly. The trailers did a disservice to this flick for sure, since they did not motivate me to watch it, but boy am I glad I did, that too with my dad on father's day.
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