Nenu Local - Movie Review

Friday, February 3, 2017 - 13:00
Nenu Local (2017)
Cast & Crew: 

Film: Nenu Local
Cast:
Nani, Keerthy Suresh, Naveen Chandra and others.
Story, dialogues: Prasanna Kumar Bezawada
Music: Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography: Nizar Shafi
Editing: Prawin Pudi
Art: A S Prakash
Action: Venkat
Associate Producers: Bekkem Venugopal
Co-producer: Harshith Reddy
Presents: Dil Raju
Banner: Sri Venkateswara Creations
Producer: Shirish
Story, Direction: Trinadha Rao Nakkina
CBFC Rating: UA
Release Date: Feb 03, 2017
Runtime: 145 Min

What's it about!

For Babu (Nani), who clears B.Tech after multiple attempts, it was love it first sight with Keerthy (Keerthy Suresh) who slaps him on the road mistakenly. He proposes her, she rejects. He tells her that he would disturb her, she says she is not that weak to get disturbed. Taking it as a challenge, he joins her MBA College as student. He truly disturbs her, and she relents to his love demand. Trouble is that her father (Sachin Khadekar) doesn't want such wayward as his alludu (son-in-law). He arranges her marriage with a police officer Siddharth Varma (Naveen Chandra) and gets oath from his daughter that she should marry whomever her orders. Now she tells Babu to make a situation that her father should order to marry him, not Siddharth.

Analysis:

'Idiot', 'Arya'.. other so-called youthful movies, which were unique at the time of release, have developed a certain pattern in Tollywood. Many filmmakers have rehashed the pattern successfully. The formula is so simple - hero proposes to heroine, she rejects him at first, but he tries relentlessly to win her love by doing some funny acts and he impresses with her his unique and aggressive attitude. Yes, hero's attitude and unique characterisation is the key in these kind of movies. In such movies, hero is generally seen as a fit for nothing but wins the rich girl, mama (heroine's father) gets irritated by hero's attitude, heroine would tell the hero that I will wait for you, you win the challenge.
 
In "Nenu Local" too, the storywriter Prasanna Kumar Bejawada and director Trinadha Rao Nakkina have diligently followed this template just filling some new sequences apart from using the same tricks they haves done in their previous movie "Cinema Choopista Mama".
 
Nani takes the charge from the first scene itself to make it entertaining as the story and scenes are so predictable and formulaic. The college scenes, however they are routine, are funny and bring out some laughs. Scenes like the lecturer who helped in exams turning out to be his mama are funny. Since the story is running on predictable path, we get to enjoy this sporadic comic moments. 
 
The story and narrative have followed completely beaten to death path.
 
Nani who has been in full flow of late has come up with cheerful acting that has enlivened many moments. His acting reminds us of young Ravi Teja, energetic and playful. But he has gone overboard at many times especially in the climax. Keerthy Suresh is just okay. Posani as Nani's father and Sachin Khadekar as Keerthy's father have helped the movie with their reliable performances. Eeshwari Rao, Tulasi, Rao Ramesh and other actors have done justice to their minor roles.
 
Apart from Nani's show, the film's other strength is Devi Sri Prasad's tunes. "Ekkada Ekkada" is such a good melody. "Next Enti" "Champesave Nannu" are catchy. His background score is effective. Cinematography is good. The movie's runtime is lengthy for its 're-hashed story'. Writer Prasanna Kumar and director Trinadha Rao have shown that they have limited ideas. 

Bottom-line: 'Nenu Local' follows the same path of 'Idiot' and other such old hits. Nothing new in this flick but offers some time-pass moments with Nani's performance. Formula flick.

Reviewed by: 
J
Rating: 
2.75/5