Shubhapradam (2010) Telugu Movie Review

Indu (Manjari) is a music loving girl. Her mother is a Malayali and father (Vizag Prasad) Telugu. She has two younger paternal uncles (Ashok Kumar and Sudarshan) whose wives are from Chennai and Kolkata respectively. Thus entire India lives in her family. She is good at speaking Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and Tamil. She happens to see Chakri (Allari Naresh), accidentally who is a good singer but not a professional one.

Chakri falls in her love and the response from other side also comes good. But Chakri has a peculiar profession that gets revealed amidst the movie. That is carrying the old and disabled on his back for climbing the hill which is the abode of a goddess.

But eventually, Indu happens to encounter a rich man (Sharath Babu) that turns her life. The major twist in the story appears there. Who is that rich man? The story goes like this. He had a grand daughter by name Sindhu who looks perfectly like Indu. Sindhu dies in an acid attack followed by ragging and hence when he sees the look-alike of his grand daughter in Indu, he follows her. What happens later becomes rest of the movie in this confused story line.

Allari Naresh has got weak characterization. No heroism was shown from his side. But still he made people laugh with his timing and dialogue delivery. Hats off for him for that.

Manjari Fadnis is really beautiful and in a few frames she looked like Jayaprada. She performed really well with wonderful nativity. She can have bright future if she chooses right story lines and directors.

Jaya Lakshmi also danced well and it is hard to believe that she is 30 plus. She looked active and lovely.

Vamsi of Happy Days fame appears in a guest role.

Vizag Prasad, Ashok Kumar and Sudarshan trio are funny with their half bald heads.

Comedy is very weak as it’s outdated.

Cinematography is impressive, music is excellent and Choreography is also good in the first 2-3 songs.

Story, Screenplay and Direction are very weak and are not at all gripping the hearts of audiences.

K Vishwanath lost his grip completely. He is not going in tune with the present day audience. No one understands where the story is going. He started with a music concert atmosphere and then shifted that to goddess of a hill. Later he has gone to flash back showing college episodes, ragging etc. Nothing hits the heart but blows off the head. And above all, the typical old styled Dance Ballads test the patience of audiences.

Except one song ‘Mouname Chebutondi..’ rest of the movie is a dud with artificially concocted emotional and sentimental drama.

And the hero in the movie is Manjari but not Allari Naresh. But still he made his presence felt with his minimal non-heroic role. Another character in the movie is Vamsi Krishna of ‘Happy Days’ fame who got a small role to play. Both Naresh and Vamsi may have the satisfaction for acting in K Vishanath’s direction, but that wouldn’t add anything for their career.