<i>Photo</i> - Review
A
good
combination
of
love
and
thriller
Siva
Nageswara
Rao,
who
had
14
films
to
his
credit
as
director,
is
well-known
among
the
Telugu
audiences
with
his
debut
film
Money.
His
film
with
Akhil,
son
of
Nagarjuna,
Sisindri
also
a
memorable
flick.
In
between,
he
did
a
film
Pattukondi
Chooddam.
As
most
of
his
films
have
a
comedy
thread,
the
producers
are
after
him
only
for
a
comedy
subject.
But,
the
director
wanted
to
prove
his
versatility
by
doing
a
thriller
and
he
did
not
want
to
experiment
with
some
other
producer
and
he
himself
started
his
own
banner
and
produced
it.
The
entire
film
was
weaved
like
a
fabric
with
different
colours
and
it
has
comedy,
thriller,
love
and
college
backdrops.
As for the story, Siddhu (Anand) has a passion for photography. He returns from the US and Bhanu (Mukta) is his girl friend. They love each other. Three of Siddhu's friends die under mysterious circumstances. Fear keeps haunting Siddhu and Bhanu as they dashed a girl with their car. One day Bhanu finds the photograph of Swapna (Anjali) in their college laboratory and the same girl is also posed with Siddhu in a photograph. When Bhanu asks Siddhu, he reveals that during his college days, he befriended with her and there is nothing like love between them. Later, Bhanu finds a photograph, where Sidhu and Swapna are in a compromising position. In the climax, a common friend of Sidhu and Swapna reveals the real secret behind the Photo in which Sidhu and Swapna were there. In fact, Siddhu's friends rape Swapna and implicate Siddhu. They take a photograph through which they started blackmailing him. As the truth revealed, the ghost stops haunting Sidhu and the film ends on a happy note.
Plus:
Hero
Anand
is
a
trained
artiste.
One
of
the
heroines
Anjali
is
a
Telugu
girl
and
hails
from
Bhimavaram
and
is
in
modelling
in
Chennai,
while
Mukta
is
a
girl
from
Kerala
and
faced
the
camera
for
a
Malayalam
film.
The
performance
of
all
the
three
is
a
plus
point
for
the
film.
Sivanageswara
Rao
had
kept
a
lot
of
effort
in
giving
a
spellbinding
screenplay
for
the
film.
Though
he
lost
grip
here
and
there,
it
picked
up
a
little
while
after
the
interval
bang
and
continued
till
the
climax.
He
was
able
to
maintain
good
suspense
was
all
through
the
film.
Rohit
Raj's
music
in
re-recording
is
yet
another
plus
point,
while
cinematography
by
KG
Soman
is
the
highlight
of
the
film.
Minus:
Sivanageswara
Rao,
though
wanted
to
change
his
track
from
comedy
to
thriller,
he
could
not
stop
his
urge
in
putting
comedy
in
the
film.
The
comedy
scenes
between
Brahmanandam,
Venumadhav
and
Suman
Shetty,
and
another
comedy
track
with
Raghubabu,
Benarjee,
GV
and
others
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
subject.
To
some
extent
they
diluted
the
tempo
of
the
film.
Likewise,
Gouthamraju
who
had
a
vast
experience
in
editing
should
have
used
his
scissors
to
further
sharpen
the
film
by
reducing
some
unnecessary
scenes
here
and
there.
The
director
also
forgot
to
establish
the
love
between
Anand
and
Mukta
properly.
Even
the
killing
of
the
three
friends
were
also
not
properly
established,
though
the
hand
of
ghost
was
said
to
be
behind
the
reason
for
their
death.
Comment:
We
can
recommend
every
one
to
watch
the
film
for
its
excellent
and
gripping
screenplay
and
suspense.
However,
the
commercial
success
of
the
film
is
in
limbo
and
it
could
be
possible
through
the
mouth-talk
publicity
rather
than
promos
and
other
such
publicity
blitzkrieg.
As
a
whole
the
film
is
quite
interesting
as
the
film
was
said
to
have
done
based
on
some
real
life
incidents
that
occurred
in
coastal
Andhra
and
in
Nizam
areas.
Moreover,
the
director
was
able
to
prove
that
love
is
not
just
a
word,
but
it
is
a
sentence
and
sometimes
it
could
be
a
life
sentence
too.
Cast:
Anand,
Mukta,
Anjali,
Jayasudha,
Suman
Setty,
Tanikella
Bharani,
Nutan
Prasad,
Brahmanandam,
Venumadhav,
Dharmavarapu
Subrahmanyam,
Ali,
LB
Sriram,
Krishna
Bhagawan,
MS
Narayana,
Kondavalasa
Lakshmana
Rao,
Jeeva
and
others.
Credits:
Cinematography
-
KG
Soman.
Editing
-
Gouthamraju.
Music
-
Rohit
Raj.
Action
-
K
Nandu.
Story
and
dialogues
-
Karlapalem
Hanumantha
Rao.
Presents
-
Nagesh
Pawar
in
association
with
MGK
Multimedia.
Screenplay,
direction,
producer
-
Sivanageswara
Rao.
Banner
-
Siva
Chithra.
Released
on
-
September
01,
2006.