Movie: Sreekaram
Genre: Drama
Cast: Sharwanand, Priyanka Arul Mohan, Rao Ramesh, Sai Kumar
Director: Kishore B
Producer: Ram Achanta, Gopi Achanta
Music: Mickey J Meyer
Cinematography: J Yuvaraj
Runtime: 132 minutes (2hrs 12mins)
Story
Karthik (Sharwanand), son of farmer will be working as a software employee in Hyderabad. He returns to his home town on the occasion of sankranti. His co-villagers, relatives who get settled with jobs come to the village too. After the festival, he travels back to Hyderabad to continue with his job. Few days pass by and he comes to know that his relatives who came to city saying they are doing jobs instead of farming are working as daily labor. This will impact Karthik in a major way that he takes a decision to take up farming as his profession, bring everyone back to farming and show them that even farming can be taken up as a profession and succeed in that. How will he convince his co villagers and relatives to come back into farming? How will Karthik succeed in this? This forms the rest of the story.
Artiste Performances
Sharwanand gives a settled and subtle performance. He is decent in his role. He does a great job in Few crucial scenes.
Priyanka Arul Mohan dealt her role with an ease.
Rao Ramesh, Naresh and Murali Sharma perform their role excellently. Sai Kumar is Good. Satya and Sapthagiri evoke few Laughs.
Rest of the cast are Ok.
Plus Points
Farming Concept
Emotional factor
Pre-interval - Interval Episode
Pre-climax
Production values
Music and BGM
Drawbacks (Which I Felt)
Love Track
Few scenes in first half
Analysis
An Engineer's son is becomming an Engineer. A Doctor's son is becomming a doctor. But for Farmers, that's never a case. A Farmer's son should become a farmer too and should feel proud about it is the core point of Sreekaram. Sreekaram Focuses on how even farming can be opted as a profession.
First half starts on a breezy note with village visuals in a festive mode. Later movie jumps to City life showing the love track which feels a bit loud. During the Pre-Interval sequence the Farmers difficulties and the conflict point is comes into play with an emotional Interval.
Second half is very engaging than first half. Community farming concept is introduced which is very impressive and is shown with amazing visuals. Few emotional scenes between Rao Ramesh and Sharwanand are well executed.
Concept of serving the people during the lockdown times is also shown in a brilliant way. There is a college meet scene in the pre-climax which is excellent and thought provoking. The following scene involving Rao Ramesh and Sharwanand will give you goosebumps and an emotional high with just one dialogue.
Visuals are superb. Production values are Lavish. Music and Background score are wonderful. Dialogues by Sai Madhav Burra are very well written and are hard hitting.
(MY) Final Word
Sreekaram is a well made film with all the emotions at right place. It is definitely a thought provoking movie about farming and farmers. Leaving a few hiccups and a bit loud and dragged love track, this movie will definitely impresses you. Director has succeeded in delivering an important and strong message on farming and farmers, narrating it in a beautiful way. On a whole, Sreekaram ends up as a well made emotional and inspiring flick.
Bottomline: Vyavasayaniki, Raithula Vijayaniki "Sreekaram" - A Soulful Tribute to Farmers
Note: This is my take on the movie. That is why I am not rating the movie. I respect each and every movie. Making people read my review and influencing them to form an impression of movie before watching the movie is never my intention. I am a Movie lover too. This is just to express my take on the movie. 😊
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