Prasanna Vadanam Cast: Suhas, Paayal Radhakrishna, Rashi Singh, Nitin Prasanna, Harsha Chemudu, Nandu, Kushalini
Crew:
Music by Vijay Bulganin
Edited by Karthika Srinivas
Cinematography by S. Chandrasekaran
Produced by Manikanta JS, Prasad Reddy TR
Written & Directed by Arjun YK
Release by Mythri Movie Makers
Prasanna Vadanam Movie Rating: 2/5
Suhas has been growing into a dependable actor with each film. He rose to fame with Color Photo and now, he is using every opportunity to prove his mettle as a lead actor. He has now come up with an interesting attempt, titled, Prasanna Vadanam. The movie released on 3rd May and let’s discuss about it in detail.
Plot:
Surya(Suhas) loses his family in a fatal accident. He survives it with great difficulty and gets diagnosed with prosopagnosia(face blindness) and phonagnosia which effects him in recognising people through vision and speech. While he can remember everything, he cannot recognise or identify people. Hence, his friend(Harsha Chemudu), who is also part of the accident and a survivor becomes his only family member. He wears hair color to let him identify him. Surya works as a RJ at a local radio station and he keeps helping people despite his limitations.
He becomes a friend of Aadhya(Paayal Radhakrishna) due to such chance encounters where he tries to help her. She misunderstands him yet he understands her and her good nature. As their promixity increases, Surya witnesses a murder by Hakimpeta SI (Nithin Prasanna) and unaware of this fact, he goes to complain to him at the station. But there he meets, a strict and good officer ACP Vaidehi(Rashi Singh). Unfortunately, he gets framed in the murder of the person, he witnessed. Why? How he is connected with all this? Watch the movie to know more.
Analysis:
Suhas is one of the most sincere upcoming actors in Telugu Cinema and he proved it once again with this film. The script did not really have everything that we anticipate for him to deliver with such a challenging character but within the limits of content he is offered, he performed well.
Rashi Singh impresses us after Suhas with her performance as a ruthless cop. Her character has great variations and she brought them out with aplomb sincerity. At places, she shocks us with her ability to pull off difficult scenes. Rest others don’t really leave an impression.
The film being a thriller needed to keep things moving at a break neck speed or at least keep them interesting. Rather the film just keeps conveniently giving clues to hero despite him being framed and being treated as an accused. It almost feels like he is roaming scot-free despite an ACP range officer is trying to find him.
It baffles us how can a clever person not try to use his disabilities to corner him until the very last minute. And there is not enough time spent on the lead actor trying to overcome his trauma or fall in love. The treatment of these portions never connect with us at any point.
While we keep wondering when would the screenplay reach the obvious end, narrative just keeps dragging it up with more and more unnecessary elements creeping in. The deviations and complexities don’t really serve the screenplay or character development at any cost. If the protagonist self doubts himself and stays within him due to accident, then him trying to overcome his inner disorders and fears would make it a satisfying arc.
Rather this just seems like a disorder for the sake of disorder being induced, so that, things seem interesting. Better writing would have made this movie worth a watch.
Positives:
Suhas performance
Rashi Singh performance
Few scenes and twists
Negatives:
Plot holes
Conveniently written screenplay
No connectivity
Draggy narrative
Prasanna Vadanam Movie Bottom-line: Could’ve been better