Nannavanu – Movie Review

Monday, May 31, 2010, 9:58 [IST]
Nannavanu
Actor Prajwal Devaraj, who has been struggling to create a hero image for himself for the past four years, has stumbled once again. His latest movie Nannavanu, which has been directed by Shrinivas Raju, disappoints the audience despite having a unique storyline.

Nannavanu is a romantic thriller movie, which has a mysterious plot that goes on unfolding scene by scene. The movie has all essential commercial elements, but Ilayaraja"s music is the only solace to the audience. Although the director has chosen a good story, he has failed in narrating it. The editing is the biggest drawback of the film. It has comedy, but irrelevant jokes and indecent mannerism mar its beauty.

The movie seems to have inspired by popular TV show Punarjanma. It is a revenge drama, in which a girl, who is murdered in her previous life, decides to avenge it in her present life. He takes the help of a greenhorn lawyer for the same. The narration is damn slow in the first half and bores the audience, but it picks up in the second half and makes the audience tighten their seat belts.

Sanjana (Aindrita Ray), who is a rich NRI girl, approaches greenhorn lawyer Bhardhwaj (Prajwal Devaraj) with a strange case of her murder in her previous life by Chief Minister CC Chandrappa (Avinash), who was an MLA then. She offers him Rs 50 crore to run the case against the CM. Whether the struggling judge wins the case or not will form the climax of the movie.

Prajwal Devaraj fails to impress the viewers with his terrible performance in the first half, but he rocks them with his wonderful acting in the second half. Aindrita is good in her respective role and she has done justice to her role as an NRI girl. Komal Kumar and Avinash have done their best.

Ilayaraja has composed a few good numbers for the film and his music is the big highlight of it. The choreography of a couple of the song is also good. The songs have been shot in Austria, Germany and Europe and K Dattu"s camera work in these songs is commendable.

However, it can be said Nannavanu has an excellent storyline, but poor narration of it will spoil it. At least sensible editing could have saved it. Anyway the movie can be watched once.

Producer: Tulasi Gopal
Director: Srinivasa Raju
Cast: Prajwal Devaraj, Aindrita Ray, Komal Kumar, Avinash and others
Music: Ilayaraja

User Comments
narsimha murthy 08 Jun 2010 04:01 pm
sheker h hooli seems to be most iexperienced in writing review,nannavanu is landmark movie in sandalwood. Prajwal is rocking.story is unique, director performance is excellent.
raju shaanbag 07 Jun 2010 04:29 pm
nannavanu is a miraculous movie, director skill is really lauded.this movie going to be big break for prajwal, storyline is excellent.unique story with excellent presentation. ilairaja music is rocking.songs are excellent, heroine performance is good. totally this movie will be 100 days.
byre gowda 04 Jun 2010 12:15 pm
this movie is will going get national award. prajwal acting is superb.
naarayanamurthy 04 Jun 2010 12:13 pm
this reviewer totally lacks experience, story is superb, one of the best movies recently i saw.Ilairaja is real mastero.dont miss everybody watch movie once.
eeshwerappa 03 Jun 2010 05:50 pm
basawa role by prajwal is superb, nannavanu will big hit.
kulkarni 03 Jun 2010 05:49 pm
I watched this movie yesterday, superb movie, ilairaja is real mastero first half is lightly pulling second half is miraculous credit goes to director.bet of luck to prajal...
sudha shetty 03 Jun 2010 05:45 pm
By profession i am a doctor prajwal acting is superb,he acted well.Director narration is excellent especially ilairaja music is superb.....
suman kulkarni 03 Jun 2010 05:43 pm
I totally agree with kiran gouda nannavanu is an excellent movie for prajwal. he simply rocking storyline is entirely different.Andrita ray is superb this movie will going to create wonders.
kiran gowda 03 Jun 2010 05:39 pm
I totally disagree with comments passed by kumara.How can he judge a director,nannavanu movie is one of the excellent moovies which are running. audio is already super hit.Second half is excellent, kumara seems to be need experience to judge a movie. director proved a lot this movie going to be 100 days nodoubt atall.
Kumara 02 Jun 2010 10:06 pm
I did not understand who has hired this director in the first place? He seems to have some problem in Kannada industry. His past movie Sangathi also a stupid movie. This one, he spoiled the name that Prajwal has. Who likes the kind of comedy he tries to put. I think he copied it from English movie. I hate timepass directors.
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