Movie ReView : SALEEM

Trailer:

Y.V.S who was termed as a minimum guarantee pure & pucca commercial director, one of the best in Tollywood directed this movie after his first debacle “OKKA MOGADU” with Bala Krishna last year. Vishnu who is looking for a good break acted in this after his disaster “KRISHNARJUNA” with P.Vasu. Illeana joined Y.V.S [after "DEVADASU"] and Vishnu [for the first time] having a good hit recently, KICK with Ravi Teja & Surender Reddy. Last but not least, it is not M.M.Keeravani who worked for this movie , the job is done by Sandeep Chowtha.

Title: Good Title got wasted. Not properly justified.

Flavor: Action packed Love Story.

Story: (Y.V.S, Gopi Mohan, BVS Ravi ) : [I do not show personal interest in revealing the story of any film, that too in detail, unless I feel it is necessary or even if I reveal there wouldn’t be much effect for someone who will watch the film after going through my view on that particular movie.] The basic concept is good, but backdrop killed the essence.

Screenplay: (Y.V.S.Chowdhary ): Biggest villain for this movie right from the scene 1.

Direction: (Y.V.S.Chowdhary ): Good in parts, but depending upon unnecessary graphics spoiled the best “half” efforts kept.

Dialogues: (Chintapalli Ramana ) : Good in parts

Lyrics: (Chandra Bose ): Good. Very good for “Kalthi Kalthi” & “I wanna talk to you” songs.

Music: (Sandeep Chowta ): Good to hear, though not in a range of YVS’s earlier albums, but not equally good on screen. Background music is not good on the whole.

Cinematography: (C Ram Prasad ): Very Average

Editing: (Kotagiri Venkateshwara Rao ): I say 2nd villain of this movie, next to Screenplay.

Choreography: (I missed in Titles ) : Good in parts.

Action/Fights: (Vijay): Very Average to Below Average, too much of wire/thread work.

Art: ( Anand Sai ): Not worth mentioning.

Production Values: (Dr. M.Mohan Babu - Sree Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures): Money poured is not visible on screen in good quality.

Performances:

Vishnu: Looks good, did well in all departments, showed ease & improvement.

Illeana: Routine, routine nothing new to offer, in fact brings boredom with her trademark (?) steps.

Mohan Babu: Is underutilized. But still, he is good in his limits.

Kaveri Jha: Strictlyyyyyyy for glamour.

Venkat: I felt he is taken, as no other alternative.

Others: SERIOUSLY nothing worth to mention about.

Publicity: Not up to the mark.



USP: Combination craze Y.V.S + Vishnu + Illeana + Mohan Babu + Sandeep Chowtha


+ Points:

New & energetic Vishnu

Illeana’s glamour

--Points:

Screenplay

Editing

Graphics

Below average picturisation of Average songs

No good comedy

Public Talk: Head Ache Movie. 1st O.K, 2nd Half ROD.

My Feel: I could watch complete movie without any headache, liked the basic concept of the movie Vishnu’s work & few songs.

A must watch for movie passionate, who can look at how a good subject get's killed with bad backdrop and screenplay accordingly.