Chandee movie review

Chandee movie review

Star cast: Priyamani, Krishnam Raju

Producer: Sreenu Babu G, Director: V.Samudra

What Is Good: Nothing

What Is Bad: Nearly Everything

Watch It or Not?: NO

Chandee Review: Story

Chandi (Priyamani) 4th generation of freedom fighter Alluri Sitramaraju family with the help of Shekar Azad (Sharath Kumar) plans and implement few murders to help the people in need in Hyderabad. CBI appoints Srimannarayanna (Nagababu) as the chief officer to investigate the series of murders. But never stops killing the people who are corrupt / anti-social, Srimannarayanna gets closer to catch Chandi. In the meanwhile, Chandi undergoes great stress and kills Minister (Ashish Vidyarthi)’s Brother Bangaru Raju (Supreet). Minister starts penning plans to capture and kill Chandi. Why do Chandi undergo such extremes to kill people? Whats relation between Rebel and Chandi? Who is Rebel? Forms the rest of the crux of the story.

Chandee Review: Plus Points :

Krishnam Raju looks regal as Ashok Gajapathi Raju. Priyamani looks good in a few scenes. Posani manages to tickle the funny bone in one or two scenes.

Chandee Review: Minus Points :

‘Chandi’ is a text book example of how not to make a film. When a national award winning actress like Priyamani finds herself in such a mindless mess, one can’t help but feel sad. There is absolutely no logic or conviction in the narration.

Samudra’s direction is very bad. Dialogues are terrible and cheesy. There is no entertainment quotient at all, save for a few scenes involving Posani. Sarath Kumar and Vinod Kumar have been wasted in poorly written roles. Ashish Vidyarthi is made to look foolish in the film.

There is no emotional conviction in the film. Despite issues like land grabbing etc, the scenes do not make any impact on viewers. The famous anthyakshari scene from ‘Gabbar Singh’ has been destroyed in the film. Poor Harish Shankar will have a heart attack if he sees how the scene has been used in this movie.

The film’s pace is quite slow and boredom sets in quite early. Poor placement of songs just adds to the misery.

Chandee Review: Direction, Music & Technical Aspects

If you are looking for a film which is just like Arundathi presenting the hero in larger than life image brandishing swords to take revenge on his opponents, you may well be disappointed. Chandi is different in this aspect. It is one film, which just throw in non-stop commercial ingredients like action, dances. The narration of Chandi also include the social incidents that has happened recently in the state. The reference about the coalition government politics is thrown in the middle. The political background in the film has added some variety to the film. The satirical narration has some cheap sequences, which may please, frontbenchers. Essentially the whole film is made for what the industry refers to as the mass audience. This is the positive and negative aspect of the film.

Chandee Review: Analysis

Chandi is presented differently with all the necessary commercial elements like action and songs thrown in with no measure. But the film's ambience is in slums. The film's quality is so bad that audience will keep wondering whether it is directed by Samudra whose name is normally associated with clean films in the past. The sequences of the film are narrated so badly that it makes it impossible for the audience to enjoy the film. Despite a shelling of some great talents associated in the film, Chandi falls badly in the eyes of the viewers.

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