Vivek Athreya proved himself as an intelligent story teller with Mental Madhilo and Brochevarevarura. Nani after his sucessful venture Shyam Singha Roy has joined hands with Vivek Athreya under the production of Mythri Movie Makers. Nazriya debuts tollywood with this flick.
Story :- Sundar wants to go to US desperately to fulfil his childhood dream for which he pursues with his boss. However, his orthodox brahmin family has too many restrictions for him which he wants to break and move.
Meanwhile Leela Thomas heads to US to complete course in photography after convincing her parents. Have they both fulfilled their wishes? How the paths of these 2 cross forms the rest of story.
Performances :- Nani just bailed it as Sundar. His antics, diction, frustration, comic timing all are pitch perfect. In general, heroor any other character plays an orthodox brahmin role, knowingly or unknowingly they tend to get overboard. However, Nani was able to get the correct wavelength and maintained it decently. His monologues with Naresh and Harsha are superb. Nazriya as Leela was good. Her dialogue delivery, acting, expressions are fresh to Tollywood, but It's not such a great role for which Nazriya had to debut. Childhood characters of Sundar and Leela also have good scope and both children have done well. All the character artists have done exceptionally well in their respective roles, be it Naresh, Rohini, Nadiya, Azhagam Perumal, Anupama, Srikanth Iyengar, Rahul Ramakrishna. My favourite was Harsha Vardhan. His dialogues, timing, antics are too good. I enjoyed his character like anything, though it's small. Despite being a terrific actor he is not getting meatier roles, which he should. This is my favourite character of his, after Anukokunda Oka Roju.
Technicians :- Background score of Vivek Sagar is engaging and exciting. Majority of the songs except are montage and we don't concentrate on the them due to the narration. Cinematography and costumes match with the different timelines in the story. Vivek Athreya proves his intelligence again with his screenplay and story. Layered screenplay with back and forth narration engages us in the plot. In general, 20-25 minutes of a movie gets covered through 5-6 songs. But narrating a 3 hr movie without any songs is a big challenge and Vivek has lived up to it. Barring few boring or slow episodes here and there, remaining part of the movie is entertaining.
Positives :-
Story & Screenplay
All the performances
Negatives :-
Dragging episodes before interval and during climax
Summary :- Ante Sundaraniki is an enjoyable watch with whole family. If you can bear through a couple of boring episodes, you will love the remaining part.
Rating :- 3/5 (Engaging and Entertaining)
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