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		Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Sainikudu Run of the Mill Fare APK | November 30, 2006 Rating: **.75 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Maheshbabu, Trisha, Prakashraj, Irfan Khan, Ravi Verma, Ajay and Others. Action: Peter Hein. Art: Anand Sai. Cinematography: Bala Subramanian. Dialogues: Paruchuri brothers. Editing: Sreekar Prasad. Music: Harris Jayaraj. Story, Screenplay & Direction: Gunashekhar. Producer: C. Aswani Dutt. Presenter: C. Dharmaraju. Banner: Vyjayanthi Studios (P) Limited. Release Date: 30th November, 2006. Predict the box-office fate of Sainikudu After Mahesh's career rocketed post-Pokiri, he must have felt obliged to give the expectant public something worth their while. Sadly, Sainikudu's storyline must have sounded pretty exciting with great potential, but the treatment is mediocre, and the promising duo of Mahesh and Gunashekhar has a mighty fall-from the stars, no less. Read on. Plot: Siddhartha (Maheshbabu) and his friends are graduates who help flood victims, only to discover later that the help that these survivors were promised by the government does not reach them and that criminal turned politician Pappu Yadav (Irfan Khan) is behind it all. Siddhartha makes his friend Ajay Kumar (Ajay) stand against Yadav for the seat, but Yadav's men plan a conspiracy involving Yadav's car being bombed so that even as he makes a narrow escape, Siddhartha and his friends are accused, with Yadav winning through sympathy and the students behind bars. Siddhartha escapes from the jail, kidnaps Varalakshmi (Trisha), Pappu Yadav's fiancé and demands that the flood victims get their rightful dues. What follows is a run and chase drama, and what happens next is the rest of the story. Story, Screenplay and Direction: The whole kidnap drama doesn't make an impact at all. Songs crop up at moments where there is no need for them to. Varalakshmi's fear that she might be molested by Siddhartha has been made into a joke, and those are the only feeble attempts at humor, and there is no other relief from the long-winding self-righteous angry young men fare dished out time and again. The long speech in the end could have been edited-no one listened anyways. More action, less talk has always been Mahesh's forte. The first scene where Siddhartha rescues the flood victims along with his friends is impressive, and you gear up for unique narration and story right from frame 1. There are more such scenes, with high-end effects and slick editing. The scene right before the intermission, where Siddhartha makes an escape with Varalakshmi in a broken down factory infested with mines (?). If it sounds familiar, then it is. 'Beyond Enemy Lines' had a reason and situation to put that kind of scene forth, Guna Shekar has the concept right, but the situation to use it is illogical and unreal, but for Telugu Land, it looks set to impress. (Did I hear someone yawn?). Then there are the climax fight sequences in the under-construction site with Sidharatha and Yadav and his henchmen climbing it, and both of them with Varalakshmi falling down those ropes are reminiscent of a Jackie Chan movie. The effects used in the scene where the bridge collapses are interesting. The points where you wake up in the movie-the whole TV9 spoof when Siddhartha injures Yadav's foot, the fight sequence after the song 'Orugalluke Pilla', the scene where thousands of students appear at Yadav's doorstep. But there is no logic nor reason in any of the above, the comedy falls flat and hello, isn't the home minister given a little more protection than what has been showcased in this movie? Well, hopefully. Performances: Mahesh has no scope as an actor here, and its just the same from Athadu to Pokiri. But in those movies, there was a scope to display his histrionics as a star. No such luck here. But without Mahesh Babu in the movie, there would be nothing to the movie. Trisha needs a makeover-a new look and some roles where she can do something that she did not in Athadu, Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana and the rest of the movies will do her some good. What was a performer like Irfan Khan doing in the movie with a role tailor made for a mediocre actor like Sayaji Shinde? He is totally wasted in the movie. Prakash Raj as 'Mondi Nani', a rip off of Moddu Srinu, who succumbs to his own bombs, is good. Song and Dance: The foot-tapping numbers make little or no impact. Orugalluke Pilla is fine, but nothing new. The background music with the drum beats is good, but repeated once too often. Last Word: A while ago, a small-time movie called 'Samanyudu' came-nothing mind-boggling there, but it had a grip from the start to the end. Sainikudu's story line is similar-ordinary people trying to make the corrupt politicians work. With so many fight sequences, effects, graphics and the large-scale production values, Sainikudu has no grip. The last and crucial one hour of the movie fails to generate interest, unlike Mahesh's last movie Pokiri. Even with Mahesh giving ample star value and trying to be the savior of this sinking ship, Sainikudu falls short of all expectations, and disappoints.