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Premam
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rating: 3.25/5
Punchline: Love in it’s purest form
Genre: Romance
Type: Remake (Malayalam - Premam)
Banner: Sithara Entertainments
Cast: Naga Chaitanya, Shruti Haasan, Madonna Sebastian, Anupama Parameswaran, Nagarjuna (SA), Venkatesh (SA), Praveen, Chaitanya Krishna, Brahmaji, Srini Narra, Sreenivasa Reddy, Pruthvi, Sathya, Noel Sean, Aravind Krishna, Jeeva, Viva Harsha etc
Music: Gopi Sunder & Rajesh Murugeshan
Cinematography: Karthik Gatamaneni
Editor: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao
Lyrics: Ramajogayya Sastry, Vanamali, Sreemani, Poorna, Krishna Madineni
Art: Sahi Suresh
Fights: Anl Arasu
Story: Alphonse Puttaren
Screenplay Dialogues & Direction: Chandoo Mondeti
Producer: Suryadevara Naga Vamsi
Release date: 7 October, 2016
Theater watched: Prasads Multiplex, Hyderabad
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Vicky is an innocent school going kid who falls in love with a beautiful girl (Anupama Parameswaran). That doesn’t work out. After 5 years, he goes to college and gets attracted to his lecturer Sithara. Then something unforeseen happens. After around 11 years, he is settled as a popular chef and finds another girl (Madonna Sebastian). The rest of story is about if he gets lucky in love or not!
Naga Chaitanya: Naga Chaitanya comes up with natural performances as a man stuck in love at various phases of life. He has given different expressions at different phases of love. He is a complete revelation in the film. He lets his imperfections work for him in a big way as he gets aged through three different love phases. There is a vulnerability associated with his character and he plays that angle to perfection to evoke sympathy among audiences.
Others: Shruti Haasan looks fabulous in this movie. Most of her dialogues are either in Hindi or English in first half. Since it’s not Telugu, she looked very comfortable with lip movement and matching the expression with dialogue (though Chinmayi dubbed differently for her in this film). Anupama Parameswaran looks adorable as a village belle. Madonna Sebastian suited the role and did well. Praveen gets a meaty role of hero’s buddy and does a fantastic job. Narra Srinu (Gabbar Singh fame) is hilarious as a man in love and Brahmaji gives entertaining performance as his love guru. Srinivasa Reddy’s comic time helps and the entire episode of his family trails for his marriage are hilarious. Arjun Kalyan and Aravind Krishna did small yet significant roles. Krishna Chaitanya is good as buddy. Nagarjuna gives a surprise as father and Venkatesh plays it to the galleries as an uncle of Naga Chaitanya.
Other departments: Music scored by Gopi Sundar and Rajesh Murugesan is nice and songs mostly help in progressing the story forward without disturbing the flow. Background music is also very apt. Cinematography by Karthik Gattamaneni is fine. Dialogues written by Chandoo Mondeti are excellent. Production design of the film is authentic. It’s a huge risk for any producer to attempt to remake a classic which dwells purely on director and actor’s ability. Suryadevara Naga Vamsi has taken the risk and succeeded in delivering it without any bad remarks. 
Analysis: I haven’t seen the original Malayalam film (on purpose as it was going to be remade in Telugu). Hence my view will vary from the people who have seen the original. Plus points of the film are casting (especially Naga Chaitanya), beautiful moments and realistic approach by director. On the flipside, there are a few dull moments in second half due to a few forced comedy elements (Sathya teaching dancing etc). On a whole, Premam is a film of moments that explores love in it’s purest/idealistic perspective. You may watch it!