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Home > Telugu Movie Reviews > Sree Faction Drama Rating: ** (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Cast: Manojkumar, Tamanna, Mohanbabu, Nagababu, Brahmanandam, Sunil, Rajesh, Khayyum, Sukanya, Jayaprakash Reddy, Raghubabu, Giribabu, Kota Srinivasa Rao, and Others. Action: Stun Shiva. Art: Srinivasa Raju. Cinematography: Arun Kumar. Dialogue: Kona Venkat. Editing: Goutam Raju. Music: Sandeep Chowta. Story & Direction: Dasarath. Presenter: Mohanbabu. Producer: M Lakshmi Prasanna. Banner: Sri Lakshmi Prasanna Pictures. Release Date: 3rd December, 2005.  This film recalls the structure of the faction dramas that haunted the Telugu screen in the recent past. The present film adapts the same structure we are familiar with, because the film makers feel this formula, still is a safe bet, particularly when a new actor like Manoj Kumar is to settle down as an action star. This is one more attempt of his father Mohanbabu to settle him in the field. Mohanbabu too takes up the role of his father on the screen, to give a boost to the narration and also to keep his fans happy with his presence. While doing so, his image as a 'star' gets beaten, as the villains murder him. In fact, this part with Mohanbabu's presence, that comes to us as a flashback, really holds water than what we see in the first part of the drama keeping Manoj in the lead. One gets the feeling that the film would have fared better if this flashback story is made as main narration, adding some more drama to keep to the image of Mohanbabu and then develop Manoj as the second hero on a different track and then bring the two together as lost and found father and son, for a surprise.The story line is in simple format, wasting most of the time in the petty love drama, with the boy Sree chasing a girl named Sandhya and the girl teasing him. Manoj and Tamanna play these roles. This part is set in Orissa's Bhubaneswar, where the hero and his mother stay for reasons of their own. The young man Sree has factionalist background. His father, played by Mohanbabu was one of the stooges of the landlord of the place, played by Jayaprakash Reddy. To separate him from the faction leader, his rivals get him married to Durga (Sukanya). When his master tries to seduce his wife, he loses temper and moves away from his boss. He learns about all the atrocities the factionalist was committing. But the villain overpowers him and takes his life. Durga is pregnant by then. She is taken away from that place and is moved to a far-off place, Bhubaneswar. She gives birth to a son there.  The film opens against the backdrop of this city, where her son Sreeram (Manoj) addressed as Sree, is studying in a college and falls in love with a girl, named Sandhya (Tamanna). This love drama runs in the usual mould almost till the interval. This is alternated with faction fights against the backdrop of Rayalaseema. Bikshapati, played by Devaraj, leads that part. He too has a flashback in which other stock roles are also played up. This part establishes that Bikshapati and his men are arch rivals of an industrialist, played by Nagababu. He wants to set up industries in his area; using his experience he gained in England as an engineer. He wants to wipe away poverty from that place. What the film concentrates upon in the later part of the drama is the hero Sree avenging the killing of his father by Bikshapathi and his men, which the hero finally achieves. Thus you can understand how stale the subject is. Even the performances by artistes in the two parts of the drama are pale. Manoj as usual is projected as an young man vested with super powers. The fight composing too moves in that direction. The character of Sree has nothing to do in most part of the drama and in that remaining part his duty is to settle score with Bikshapathi.The peculiarity of the narration is Bikshapathi acting according to the advice of his wife, played by a new actress, who looks like a 'Pativrata' and does like a ruthless woman. Manoj is adequate for the role of lover boy but not when he sets himself on warpath with the villain. Raghubabu playing stooge of Bikshapthi proves better comedian than Sunil who is in the pack of hero Manoj's gang. Looks and performance of Tamanna, playing opposite Manoj, are average. Music and photography are passable. Nagababu offers a dignified performance as an industrialist. That section of the film in which Mohanbabu figures is the best part of the drama. |