Siddham REVIEW

Film: Siddham

Rating: 3/5

Cast: Jagapathi Babu, Sindhu Menon, Kota, Subbaraju, Siva Prasad, Amit, Dil Ramesh, Mukul Dev, Radha Ravi, Narsing Yadav etc

Editing: Bhanoday

Photography: Baharni K Dharani

Music: Amar Mohile

Producer: Kiran Kumar Koneru

Screenplay-Direction: JD Chekravarthy

Released Date: Feb 12th, 2009

Story:

Inspector Dayanand (Jagapathi Babu) is a sincere and persevering officer who cleanses the society with his gun. He wins Presidential Award as an encounter specialist. There will be envy of fellow officers around him for the popularity he gets among police circles and public. He struggles between his ideologies and apparent politics within his department. But he loses his wife followed by strife with a mafia don. He finds the culprit amidst a popular assumption, and finally puts an end to his life using his intelligence. How he does all that is the main theme of this flick.

Presentation:

Jagapathi Babu forms the center of this film and his silhouette is perfectly in tune with the role he played. The perfection is seen in his body. The dialogues delivered and the expressions used are very well within the limits without any artificial histrionics. Sindhu Menon played the female lead in the movie but there are no routine dances with jatkas and matkas. Everybody in the film has underplayed with balanced act. Mukul Dev needs appreciation for his cunning role. Subba Raju has no dialogue in the film and he played only with expressions for a few moments. Siva Prasad, the TDP leader has been playing interesting villain roles these days and he played one such role in this flick as a guest artiste. Others are well grooved in the subject. Coming to technical departments, music is used only for back ground and there are no dances in it to make it artificial. Back ground music has perfectly suited the requirement. Editing and Camera work are fine and direction is also reasonable although a copy from Hindi flick.

Conclusion:
Dialogues, screenplay and narration style are directly adopted from Hindi flick Ab Tak Chappan and there are no artificial add-ons to that. JD has taken complete liberties to lift it and use as it was. The famous Hindi dialogue with Nana Patekar when pronouncing the name 'Vaishali' is taken here as 'Padma/ Badma' showing the difference between Andhra and Madrasi pronunciation respectively. Apart from this almost all the scenes were taken as they were from the original. Keeping that aside, it's a rational narration with perfect conviction. Chekravarthy has narrated it straight without any synthetic fabrication.