WINNER Movie Review

Movie: WINNER

Cast: Sai Dharam Tej, Rakul Preet Singh, Thakur Anoop Singh, Jagapathy Babu, Mukesh Rishi, Ali, Vennela Kishore, Anasyua Bharadwaj and others

Director: Gopichand Malineni

Producer: Nallamalapu Bujji

Story: Veligonda Srinivas

Editing: Pravin Pudi

Cinematography: Chota K Naidu

Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions, Leo Productions

Certificate: UA

Runtime: 155 mins (2 hours 35 minutes)

Release date: Feb 24,2017

Watched at Galaxy theater, Toli chowchi

Behind The Screens:

Mega Star Chiranjeevi’s nephew  Supreme star Sai Dharam Tej after entertaining with Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitam, Subrahmanyam For Sale and Supreme  is getting ready to entertain movie lovers with Winner. Let us see what impact he made on movie lovers.

Story:

India’s best jockey Mahender Reddy (Jagapathy Babu) was driven by his father (Mukesh Rishi) after he fall in loves and marries his lover (Lakshmi). But after Mahender Reddy leaves his father, he suffers huge losses. With company partners pressure, Mahender Reddy returns back with his five-year-old son Siddharth (Sai Dharam Tej). Father however separates Mahender Reddy and his son Siddharth and young boy without realizing the wicked designs leaves the house angry with his father. While Mahender Reddy longs for his son, Siddharth in the meantime grows up developing hatred towards horse races. Siddharth who starts working as a creative head with New Look magazine, falls for racer Sitara (Rakul Preet Singh) who aspire to win a gold medal in atheltics competition. But when Sitara rejects Siddharth, he exposes Sitara in front of her dad Rajiv Reddy (Suresh). Angry Suresh fixes her marriage with Aadi (Thakur Anup Singh) much against her wishes.Sitara then comes with a condition that she marries only those who win horse race between Aadi and Siddharth. How Siddharth who hates horse races turn Winner should be enjoyed on silver screen.

Performances:

 

Supreme star Sai Dharam Tej showed his full energy in this character. He impressed with his delightful dances and stunning stunts. He put in lot of effort and his hard work for his role as professional jockey in this film. Rakul Preet Singh impresses as an athlete. Jagapathy Babu attracted in father’s role with his emotional performance. He looked stylish in his role. Thakur Anoop Singh looked cruel as a villain. He gave good competition to Sai Dharam Tej in the horse riding scenes. Vennela Kishore attracted to some extent with his typical comedy and mannerisms. 30 years Prudhvi Raj attracted with his comedy first half. Ali attracted as horse man with his comedy in the second half. Suresh, Mukesh Rishi, Raghu Babu, Sonia Agarwal, Kalyani and others performed according to their roles.

Analysis:

Gopichand Malineni who directed Don seenu, Body guard, Balupu, Pandaga chesko movies earlier and now he came with regular routine commercial entertainer. He attracts with few comedy scenes and romantic love track in the first half. His screen-play and direction are not so bad. Story of Veligonda Srinivas has nothing new. Horse racing scenes shot in Turkey are the highlight in the film.

 

Technical Values:

SS Thaman’s music is just okay. Sitara song is shot in a beautiful manner. Anasuya’s special number Suya Suya disappoints. Background score is good. Chota K Naidu’s cinematography is excellent. He added extra grandeur to the film with his camera work. Songs are picturised well. AS.Prakash’s art work is good. Pravin Pudi’s editing could have been better and he had chance to cut few scenes in both half's. Few dialogues of Abburi Ravi like ‘Bandham kosam pantam vadulukuntam kani..pantam kosam bandham vadulukolem’ are good. Production values of Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions are rich.

Thumbs up:

- Sai dharam tej

- Few comedy bits

Thumbs Down:

- Dragged narration

- Second half

- Routine story

- Predictable screenplay

Final Verdict:

Winner is a regular routine mass oriented commercial format film. First half fills with entertainment by vennala kishore and prudhvi raj scenes and ends on a happy note. Second half is dragged predictable screen-play and drama. Overall Winner is an avoidable film totally. 

Review by Manikick

Rating:    2.5/5