Naa Saami Ranga Cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni, Allari Naresh, Raj Tharun, Ashika Ranganath, Mrinaa Menon, Rukhsar Dhillon, Shabeer, Nasser
Crew:
Based on Purinju Mariam Jose
Music by MM Keeravani
Cinematography by Dasaradhi Sivendra
Editing by Chota K. Prasad
Written by Prasanna Bezawada, Vijay Binni
Directed by Vijay Binni
Produced by Srinivasa Chitturi
Nagarjuna Akkineni has decided to do a mass entertainer again aiming to release for Sankranti season. He gave a blockbuster with Soggade Chinni Nayana and a hit with Bangarraju for Sankranti season. Now, he has come up with Naa Saami Ranga. Allari Naresh, big fan of Nag has acted in the movie has his best friend. Raj Tharun has also joined them. MM Keeravani composed songs and Chandrabose wrote lyrics for all songs. Both of them have worked for this movie for the first time after winning Oscar for Naatu Naatu song in RRR. Movie released on 14th January, 2024 and let’s discuss about the film.
Plot:
Kishtayya(Nagarjuna Akkineni) becomes the right hand man of Peddayya(Nasser). He is an orphan and Anji(Allari Naresh)’s mother adopts him. After her death, Anji and Kishtayya become each other’s family. Bhaskar(Raj Tharun) loves another village President’s daughter(Rukhsar Dhillon) and to save him Kistayya brings him under his protection. During Sankranti, this fight becomes a big fight between two villages.
Peddayya’s younger son(Shabeer) due to his lust towards Varalakshmi(Ashika Ranganath) develops animosity against Kishtayya and Anji. Kishtayya and Varalakshmi love each other but she doesn’t marry him, due to her father’s death. Now, during Sankranti of 1988, Kishtayya and Anji come under huge threat with all their enemies colliding against them. How the story will end? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Nagarjuna Akkineni can easily pull off such roles and he did the same. His ease in fights and romantic scenes is great. Also, his looks are inspirational for everyone to stay fit and energetic. He did his job well. Allari Naresh also gave good performance as Anji. His comic timing did bring laughs to the audiences. Raj Tharun did not have much but he did well. Ashika Ranganath has got a good character and she did well. She also looked highly attractive. Shabeer, Nasser, Mrinaa Menon all performed well.
Story of Purinju Mariam Jose is not something fresh. The ideas are presented in a Massy way. Naa Saami Ranga has also followed the same template. Following the mass commercial formula, they have given more importance to Nagarjuna and Ashika love story. The flow in establishing different threads and characters is absent in the second hour. Nagarjuna had to heavy weight lifting along with Allari Naresh for the climax portions work. The writing had to be even better for the film to have even more freshness while it just follows formula, to the tee.
Vijay Binni has done well to give such a product in such short time. His execution of several sequences is impressive. But the writing for Allari Naresh character and Raj Tharun character also could have been much better. Being too simple line, the writing needed to be more inventive in the second half. Still, the BGM by MM Keeravani, screen presence of Nagarjuna Akkineni, action sequences and Ashika Ranganath’s performance, character make this a Sankranti festival entertainer.
Positives:
Nagarjuna Akkineni’s screen presence and performance
Ashika Ranganath’s looks and performance
Allari Naresh’s performance
MM Keeravani’s BGM
Action Sequences
Negatives:
Predictability
Too simple storyline
Formulaic scenes and stories
Few threads could have been better explored
Naa Saami Ranga Bottom-line: Just for the Festival Time
Rating: 2.75/5