Srikanth Movie Review, Tushar Hiranandani has spent the last 20 years in Hindi cinema writing all types of films. This is the second film of Tushar, who started with the film ‘Masti’ in 2004, as a director after the film ‘Saand Ki Aankh’. In between, he has also directed the web series ‘Scam 2003’.
From Dilip Kumar’s film ‘Deedar’ to Naseeruddin Shah’s ‘Sparsh’, Rani Mukherjee’s ‘Black’, Kajol’s film ‘Fanaa’ to Sonam Kapoor’s recently released film ‘Blind’, there is a long sequence of blind characters in Hindi cinema. If we add characters like ‘Andhadhun’ who remain blind despite having eyes, the list can become longer.
Every big star aspires to play a blind character at least once in his acting journey to become a big artist. Tushar, who told the stories of elderly shooters in the film ‘Saand Ki Aankh’, was highly praised in the web series ‘Scam 2003’ and is also going to be praised for making his film ‘Srikanth’.
The film ‘Srikanth’ is not a film made for entertainment. This film is a biopic pointing fingers towards those systems which Srikant Bolla had to fight to become a successful businessman. When one of the students who had come to meet the then President APJ Abdul Kalam expressed his desire to grow up and become the first visually impaired President of the country and after the end of the film, when it was written on the screen that Srikant Bolla still fulfills this desire. If we are living with it then the purpose of the film becomes clear.
The story of the film begins with the birth of Shrikant Bolla, when his father goes to bury his son following the advice of people that kill him now otherwise he will remain in pain throughout his life and will keep troubling his parents too. His father names him after cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth and he also plays cricket growing up.
The real protagonist of this story is teacher Devika. By combining whose names Srikant names his first institute, Sri-Devi! Devika selflessly tutors Srikant and stays with him till his admission in America. When Srikant returns to India, Devika becomes his biggest helper. If this entire film had been made from Devika’s perspective, its level would have been different.
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In terms of acting, this film could have been a memorable film of Rajkumar Rao, if Rajkumar had shown the problems faced by the blind in daily life in this film. The problems faced in handling important daily tasks become the easiest and most powerful medium to connect the audience with a blind character, but these things are not in the script of the film.
Rajkummar Rao has adopted the same posture while talking throughout the film and after a while it starts looking very one-sided. His efforts are good but before doing this film, if he had seen the acting of Naseeruddin Shah in ‘Sparsh’ or AK Hangal in ‘Sholay’, it could have helped him in improving his acting. Kumud Mishra’s film ‘Nazarandaz’ is also a good reference point.
Overall, the film ‘Srikanth’ is a good film till the interval and an average film thereafter, which has put a lot of pressure on film critics to call it a great film. This film can get good views on OTT.