Film: Anamika
Starring: Nayantara, Vaibhav Reddy, Pasupathy, Harshavardhan Rane
Director: Sekhar Kammula
Producer: Endemol India Banner, Viacom18
Banner: Endemol India Banner, Viacom18
Music: Keeravani MM
Starring: Nayantara, Vaibhav Reddy, Pasupathy, Harshavardhan Rane
Director: Sekhar Kammula
Producer: Endemol India Banner, Viacom18
Banner: Endemol India Banner, Viacom18
Music: Keeravani MM
Story
NRI Anaamika (Nayantara) flies to
Hyderabad and heads straight to police station to file a missing
complaint of her husband Ajay Shastry (Harshavardhan Rane). Though the
police don’t take her seriously, one young cop Saradhi (Vaibhav) helps
her. While the duo tries to trace the case clearing the hurdles and
getting the clues, they get to know that the National Security and anti
terrorist Squad is involved in it. Anamika finds out that Ajay Shastry’s
name is linked with Milan Damji, who is a dreaded terrorist. What does
Anaamika do? How does she overcome hurdles and reach her goal forms
rest.
Performances
Being a heroine-centric film, Nayanatara has
large scope for performance and the actress delivers a neat and classy
performance. She does the role in her style and justifies Anaamika
characterization.
Vaibhav is quite
impressive in his roles as Sarathi, Pasupathy as Khan is convincing,
Harshavardan Rane is justifying in his brief role. Naresh, Thagubothu
Ramesh are okay and others are adequate,
Technical Analysis
Among the technicalities, MM Keeravani
scores big. The background score is the biggest asset of Anaamika.
Despite slow proceedings, Keeravani has taken the film to another level.
Cinematography is on top-notch, Dialogues are crisp and neat, Sekhar
Kammula scores well in direction, despite first remake while screenplay
could have been much racier in first half. Editing could have been
crispier in initial hour. Production values are good.
Analysis
Sekhar Kammula for the first time
wielded the megaphone for a remake, that too for a suspense thriller and
yes he scores in direction. Kammula has executed some of the emotional
scenes quite impressively including the climax. Like all other Sekhar
Kammula films, Anaamika doesn’t rotate around youthful scenes or
romance, but the director makes it a neat package.
The entire crew’s work is impressive
including cinematography, music and Yandamuri’s work. Though the first
half of the film moves at a slow pace, it’s the second half you’ll be
glued to screens for its racy screenplay.
There are few scenes that look
repetitive in the first half and editing could’ve been better in this
hour. Also, Sekhar could have revealed on how Nayan gets to know about
Milan Damji or what happened to Hard disk and what is in it.
Nayanatara and Vaibhav are impressive in
their roles. The run length is also an added advantage for Anaamika.
Despite many implemented changes, few of the crucial twists in Kahaani
and Anaamika remain similar.
Final Verdict
Anaamika- Worth a watch!!!