Manam movie review
Title : Manam
Release Date : 23-5-2014
Genre : Periodic Family Drama
Banner : Annapurna Studios
Producers : Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, Akkineni Nagarjuna
Director : Vikram Kumar
Cast : Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Nagarjuna, Naga Chaitanya, Shriya Saran, Samanth Ruth Prabhu.
Music Director : Anoop Rubens
Dialogues:- Harshavardhan
Cinematography by :- P S Vinod
Editing by :- Praveen Pudi
Running time :- 163 minutes
Censor Certificate : U/A
Story : The movie starts with the birthday celebration of Bitoo son of Radha Mohan (Naga Chaitanya) and Krishnaveni (Samanta). There are some rifts between this couple and they want to meet lawyer and on their way to lawyer they die in a car accident. Their son Bitoo grows up into a rich and successful business man, Nageswara Rao (Nagarjuna). Nageswara Rao once meets Nagarjuna (Naga Chaitanya) in a flight and was surprised to see a person similar to his father even a mole on the hand is the also the same. Then he searches for his mother and meets Priya (Samantha). He starts living his childhood moments along with them and tries top develop love between the young couple and get them married.
One day Nageswara Rao meets a girl Anjali (Shriya Saran) , while helping an old man Chaitanya (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) as he met with an accident and falls in love with her. Chaitanya is surprised to see Anjali and Nageswara Rao. Who is Chaitanya? Why is he surprised? Nageswara Rao can bring Nagarjuna and Priya together? How they all are connected to each other? Should be watched on the silver screen.
Performance: Nagarjuna has done a great job as Nageswara Rao and he is the connecting point to all the characters in the movie and he has done justice with all of them. Naga Chaitanya has improved a lot and though Akkineni Nageswara Rao’s role is for a little span , he is the showstopper of the movie. Samantha has the best role in the movie and she was looking beautiful and gave the best performance. Shirya Sran steals the show in the second half and her chemistry with Nagarjuna is very good.
Conclusion : Watching the three generations of the Akkineni family together in this movie is a visual treat and every frame is beautiful. This is a perfect family entertainer and is high on entertainment quotient. The background score is very good. The cameo role by Akhil and his entry is the highlight to the movie .
Rating: 4/5
MR/21
