Cast: Akkineni Nagarjuna, Nayanatara, K. Vishwanath, Geetanjali, Meera Chopra, Kota Srinivas Rao, Brahmanandam, Sharath Babu, Naga Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam Benarjee, Kovai Sarala, Sudha, M.S. Narayana, Ali, Venu Madhav, Srinivas Reddy, Raghu Babu, Kasinathuni Vishwanath, Giri, Vennela Kishore, Nagineedu, Bharath Reddy, Thagubothu Ramesh and others
Music: S.S. Thaman
Cinematography: Anil Bhandari
Art: S. Ravinder
Editing: Marthand K. Venkatesh
Additional Writers: Kona Venkat, Gopi Mohan
ScreenPlay: Hari
Dialogues: Dasaradh, Praveen Verma
Producer: D. Shiva Prasad Reddy
Story & Direction: Dasaradh
BGM Duniya Rating: 2.75/5
Story:Chandu(Nagarjuna) is an NRI and owns an event management company at USA. He is a practical, materialistic guy, who does not believe in love or relations. On the other hand Sandhya(Nayanatara) is a US based medico and a full time volunteer at Make A Wish organization. She is exactly opposite in nature to Chandu. Business wise, Chandu has a clash with P.R (Aashish Vidhyarthi) and that lands him in to legal, financial issues. These consequences and a few other developments lead Chandu to visit India and meet his grand father (K. Vishwanath). At the same time Sandhya, who is visiting India for social welfare work, befriends Chandu during the journey and they both get acquainted. At his native village the good and the bad with in Chandu begin to conflict with one another, because of various situations and also certain twists, in the plot, occur.
The process in which Chandu repents and understands the value of human relations in the companionship of Sandhya, his grand father and other family members forms the rest of the story.
Performances:
Nagarjuna tried his best to contribute to the movie, but his inconsistent characterization caused a major damage. He looked very energetic in the introduction song and in terms of fitness and glamour he was no way inferior to the present day young heroes. It seems, at times Nag himself was confused of what to perform because of the director's amateurish narration. Nagarjuna tried a negative character too, this time, but was not up to the mark.
Nayanatara emoted well yet again and the pair of Nag - Nayan looked good on the screen. But her potential was not utilized properly.
'Kala Tapaswi' K. Vishwanath was the third most important character in the movie and he brought authenticity and grace to many scenes with his performance. Heroine Meera Chopra was seen as a friend of the protagonist, in a small yet important role.
Among the comedy tracks only a few scenes involving Nagarjuna- Brahmanandam- M.S. Narayana generated laughs. All the remaining comedy scenes by Kovai Sarala, Jaya Prakash reddy, Brahmanandam and M.S. Narayana were not at all impressive.
Senior actress Geetanjali, Kota Srinivas Rao, Naga Babu, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Sharath Babu, Aashish Vidhyarthi, Sudha, Benarjee, Mahesh Babu's brother in law Sanjay, Supreeth, Giri, Venu Madhav, Srinivas Reddy, Vennela Kishore, Bharath Reddy, Thaagubothu Ramesh and many others were seen in minor roles. But after watching the movie except for Nagarjuna, Nayanatara and K Vishwanath, none of the other characters strike to the mind.
Technical Aspects:
Dasaradh, who made good family entertainers like Santosham and Mr Perfect before, failed completely as a director this time. He had no proper control on the movie's narration, despite of having multi- star cast and high budget. His direction was old fashioned and inconsistent.There's no proper story, screen play was ineffective and even by the end of second half one doesn't understand about what the director wants to convey. The influences of movies like Prematho Raa, Kalisundhaam Raa, Mr perfect, Old Missamma, Athadu, etc were clearly seen. The main conflict point was very weak and there was no proper reason, for the entire drama which was followed.
The way he handled the America, NRI related episodes were awkward and reflected the half knowledge of the director. His canning of the scenes, which dealt with the motives of the Hero, his repentance and reformation were unconvincing and this is a half cooked product from Dasaradh. The additional writing by Kona Venkat and Gopi Mohan could not help and over all Greeku Veerudu appears like a late 1990s' verbose, 'moral preaching' kind of movie. But still the dialogues by Dasaradh and Pravin Verma were impressive and thought provoking.
Music by Thaman was a big relief and he tried different melodious tunes with Greeku Veerudu. The BGM was very pleasant. The cinematography by Anil Bhandari was OK and the songs were picturised well. Marthand K. Venkatesh's editing could have been better, as it was obvious to the audience that Green Mat technology was used for many scenes, in the movie. Art work was routine and the budget given by the producer was wasted.
Bottom Line: Greeku Veerudu is about the realisation of a non- emotional person and his matured love story based in the family back drop. It may appeal to the Akkineni fans and family audience especially ladies and makes a one time watch for them. But to be frank it is better to avoid the movie and save some money and time.
BGM Duniya Rating: 2.75/5
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