Speedunnodu (2016) Movie Review

Where Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao’s film loses out on is that it fails to make the essential connections with the audience, that are so imperative for an emotional film “Speedunnodu” to work. On the contrary, it leaves the viewers vexed and comes to an abrupt end, when the writer/director runs of ideas. Neither the realism nor the witty repartees serve to draw the viewer into Shoban’s world and had they done so, “speedunnodu” would have been a different kind of a feel good film altogether for the Telugu audience.

The story meanders without definite plan or direction most of the time and makes it all into a tedious journey to the end. The film starts and meanders along towards a meek end. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if it is said that nothing worthwhile happened in between. Half baked comic caper that the film is, in the first half, turns into an emotional drama second half, with Shoban becoming a suspect. The feel good emotional mystery that is sought to be cooked up fizzled out leaving the viewer in the high and dry. The final conversation between friends was expected to redeem the movie, but instead it looks unbalanced that it proves to be the last nail in the coffin.

What if Bellamkonda Sreenivas, who has carved out a niche for himself with his commercial acting style, decides to do a conventional emotional drama? Well, that’s is what happens in director Bhimaneni Srinivasa Rao’s Speedunnodu where he desperately tries to do what our commercial directors try to do with remake subjects. You can only watch director Bhimineni’s Speedunnodu with tremendous choler and skepticism, as he tries to make mockery of two (Sundarapandian and Raja Huli) much loved films with this one.

Speedunnodu (2016) Movie Rating : 2.5/5