Sujeeth scored a good hit with crime comedy "Run Raja Run" in 2014. After a gap of 5 years he is coming back with high budget action entertainer Saaho. After the Bahubali series, this is the next movie Prabhas, who has now Nation wide fans.
Story :-
Jackie shroff is king of dons in Waji city and he comes to India for an important task of securing money of all the dons. Someone attacks him during his visit. Chunkey Pandey wants to get on the throne of Jackie, just when Arun Vijay (Jackie shroff's son) comes to occupy the throne. Chunkey Pandey hires a thief to get the black box which has access to the money of dons.
Meanwi, Prabhas is an undercover cop who is assigned the task to find out a thief of multiple massive robberies. Shraddha Kapoor is part of the team assigned to him. Both fall in love with time.
Who attacked Jackie? Was Prabhas able to catch the thief? Does the thief help Chunkey Pandey go to the throne forms the story.
Performance :-
Too many actors are there in the movie, for unnecessary roles. Prabhas was good in parts. His hairstyle is a big let down in many scenes. Also his body language and looks were not complementing the character. Shraddha kapoor was okay. Their love story looks forced and doesn't have emotional connect. Neil nitin mukesh and Arun Vijay shine in their roles.
Technicians :-
Background score is good in parts. Songs are okay but doesn't feel like telugu songs. Cinematography is neat. Screenplay and twists are fine but run time is pretty long. Lot of money wasted on unnecessary stuff like art work in songs, Graphics, action episode's, etc., Direction is a big let down for movie. 1st half is somewhat fine, but 2nd half is a mess. Dialogues and dialogue delivery is were not upto the mark. Too many artistes belonging to Bollywood or other languages couldn't connect well with us. Huge cast was used which was not required at all.
Positives :-
Twists
Negatives :-
Unnecessary stuff for style
Summary :-
No hero scored a decent hit after giving a blockbuster with Rajamouli. Majority directors failed in 2nd attempt (Dwiteeya vighnam) after scoring hit with 1st. No telugumovie became hit in which Jackie shroff acted (Panjaa, Shakti). Saaho needed to break all these sentiments and become a hit. However, Saaho failed to break them due to poor direction, planning and wasted lot of money. Content is always king and Rajamouli knows how to have right content. Not every high budget movie can be Bahubali.
Rating - 2/5, Only style no substance
