WINNER 2017 MOVIE REVIEW AND RATINGS
Movie: Winner
Rating: 3.0/5
Banner: Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions
Cast: Sai Dharam Tej, Rakul Preet Singh, Anasuya, Jagapathi Babu, Mukesh Rishi, Vennela Kishore, Anup Thakur Singh, Prudhvi, Ali and others
Story: Veligonda Srinivas
Dialogues: Abburi Ravi
Music: S S Thaman
Cinematography: Chota K Naidu
Editing: Gowtham Raju
Producers: Nallamalupu Srinivas (Bujji) and Tagore Madhu
Screenplay and direction: Gopichand Malineni
Release date: February 24, 2017
Winner Review, What’s Behind : After delivering two hits in a row with "Balupu" and "Pandaga Chesuko", director Gopichand Malineni has teamed up with hero Sai Dharam Tej who is also on the track of hits. So their combination for "Winner" created curiosity.
With Rakul Preet Singh playing the heroine and top producers backing the movie, the movie caught attention. Music by Thaman have already topped the charts.
In this scenario, "Winner" has everything to go for it. So has the movie lived up to the promise it has shown before the release?
Winner Movie Story:
Siddharth Reddy (Sai Dharam Tej) hates his father Mahender Reddy (Jagapathi Babu) as he marries another woman after his mother's death.
Mahender Reddy turns busy as businessman of a racecourse and stops caring for Siddharth as he used to do. So the kid Siddharth Reddy runs away from home and develops hatred towards his father and horse racing.
Years later, Siddharth Reddy turns out to be owner of a newspaper. He falls in love with Sitara (Rakul Preet Singh) who comes to Hyderabad to participate in a running competition.
In typical cinematic style, he proposes to her, she says no to him. Then her father arranges a marriage with a horse rider (Anup Thakoor Singh). In the marriage mandapam, Sitara asks both Siddharth Reddy and this horse rider to compete with each other in a horse riding race and the winner gets her.
Siddharth who has aversion to horse riding now has twin challenges - to win the love of Sitara as well as win back his father's love by competing with this Jockey. What happens next?
Winner Movie Actors and Actresses Performances:
Sai Dharam Tej is one of the talented young actors in Tollywood today. He has been delivering what mass audiences like to see in a hero. In "Winner" too, Sai Dharam Tej has given his best in dialogue delivery, dances and mass-action stunts but his characterisation is too weak. Though he shines, his role doesn't pay off well. He has also gone for slight makeover.
Heroine Rakul Preet Singh has not hesitated in showing off her skin, she is just there for glamour show. There is not much strength to her character. Rakul Preet Singh’s skin show dominated glamour in skimpy costumes might be a treat for front benchers.
Jagapathi Babu once again comes up with good act. Jagapathi Babu steals the show in his own style in a sober, stylish father role.
Villain Anup Singh Thakur who was recently seen in Suriya's "Singam 3" is okay for the role.Anup Thakoor Singh has only body.
Anasuya in a brief appearance and in an item song has sizzled and Sai Dharam Tej’s entry time Anasuya item song haven’t got strong lead scenes.
Prudhvi as Singham Sujatha has done routine comedy and Ali's role as horsemen Babu cum Peter Hiens is so boring.
Vennela Kishore as Sai Dharam Tej's assistant is neat.Vennela Kishore in a full length role tickled our funny bone while Singham Sujata by 30 Years Industry Prudhvi is a mere waste Mukesh Rishi is okay too.
Technical Excellence :
The movie is said to be one of the costliest production in Sai Dharam Tej's career. The expenditure is quite visible on screen as production values are full of gloss. Chota K Naidu's camera work is top class.
Thaman has given catchy tunes. Artwork and production values are terrific, as all the frames look very rich. Editing and pace of the movie is okay. Action stunts are neat. Dialogues are adequate enough for a masala movie.
Winner Movie Highlights:
Hero Sai Dharam Tej
Rakul and Anasuya Glamour show
Best Song of O Sitara song
Drawback:
It is very Routine story.
Predictable screenplay and direction and no unexpected twists.
Comedy track is also not good.
No logical sequences
Analysis:
Director Gopichand Malineni is known for mass dramas, none of the movies he has directed so far won critical praise but were money-spinners as they had struck a chord with B and C center audiences. In "Winner" too he has tried to repeat the same trick. Starting from the very beginning of the story, the treatment is quite routine and mass-oriented.
As a hero, Sai Dharam Tej is improving credentials with each film. In his immediate desire to attain the extra commercial stardom, he seems to have picked a proven director Gopichand Malineni and a tested routine storyline which unfortunately isn’t effectively delivered. Many of the episodes and their treatment were forced and illogical. From the very go, it was against Telugu audience emotions to showcase grandpa-grandson relation in negative perspective and horse racing is also not a familiar game to connect with us. To overcome these foundational drawbacks, Gopichand had an opportunity to keep narrative very tight which hasn’t happened.
First half begins on a very promising note before titles when father-son soft sentiment and a destitute grandfather are introduced. Post titles, Sai Dharam Tej’s entry and Anasuya item song haven’t got strong lead scenes. Establishing the newspaper office environment comedy and Rakul Preet Singh’s romantic track were ok. To pass on the time, Singham Sujatha comes and goes without serving any purpose. None of these bombarded tracks worked a magic before the interval challenge twist closes first half on a below average note.
Starting the second half, the plot is widely open and story moves on expected lines. Sai Dharam Tej-Jagapathi Babu bike drive and Rakul knowing about Sai Dharam Tej flashback are clichéd but engaging to an extent. However, Ali’s entry changes the pitch and there are laugh-out loud saving moments. Towards climax, movie ends very crisply with our Winner winning the racing championship followed by a twist in screenplay leading to a happy ending.
In the beginning of the movie it is shown that Sai Dharam Tej is the owner of a newspaper but in the rest of the movie he behaves like an awara than an editor or owner of newspaper. Never in the movie again his job is shown. Anasuya's appearance, Rakul's aim in life, and Mukesh Rishi's back story... all seem forced.
Both the story by Veligonda and narration by director Gopichand Malineni is cliched. What works in the film are Sai Dharam Tej's ease, some scenes post-interval and couple of catchy songs by Thaman.
Dialogues like "Nenemi Gaddipochani Kadu Gaddaparani Digipoddi", "Pattumani Patikellu Levu Kani Pettukunnarante Patikamandi Paine Potaru", "Chooddaniki Chinnappati Chiranjeevila Unnavu" may ring well with the front benchers.
All in all, "Winner" is so hackneyed but delivers what it promises in its theatrical trailer - a film for B and C Center audiences. For methodical cinema lovers in B, C centers, there’s something to rejoice but for A center audience, it’s hard to gulp.
Bottom-line: Little Bit Lost the Race!
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