Panjaa Movie Review

Panjaa Movie Review

Cast : Pawan Kalyan, Sarah Jane Dias, Anjali Lavania, Jackie Shroff, Atul Kulkarni, Adivi Sesh, Tanikella Bharani, Subbaraju, Brahmanandam, Ali, Sampath Raj, Paruchuri Venkateswara Rao, Jhansi and others.

Cinematography : PS Vinod

Music : Yuvan Shankar Raja

Editing : Sreekar Prasad

Action Choreographer : Shyam Kaushal

Screenplay : Rahul Koda

Dialogues : Abburi Ravi

Styling : Anu Vardhan

Art : Sunil Babu

Publicity Designer : Neel Roy

Still Photographer – V Sittrarasu

Story & Direction : Vishnuvardhan

Producers : Neelima Tirumalasetti, Nagesh Muntha, Shobu Yarlagadda, Prasad Devineni

Banners : Sanghamitra Arts & Arka Media

Release Date : 9th december 2011

Story : Pawan Kalyan’s childhood gets disturbed as few goons kill his family and make him an orphan.

He meets Bhagwan(Jackie Shroff), who gives him support and also a gun to survive, and also names him as ‘Jaidev’.

Now Jai grows up with vengeance in his heart and uses the gun given to him and builds a mafia empire in kolkatta.

He becomes a rugged mafia leader his gang has war with kulkarni (atul kulkarni) gang.

In his action packed life, enters Sandhya (Sarah Jane Dias) and Jai gets attracted towards her.

Despite having a target in his mind and leading a risky lifestyle, jai couldn’t help himself from falling in love with sandhya.

Jai gets trapped into a murder committed by munna (Adivi Sesh), who is Bhagwan(Jackie Shroff)’s son.

Munna kills Jhanvi(Anjali Lavania), who refuses his advances and later gets killed in Jai’s hands.

To escape from bhagwan’s men, Jai re-enters his villageleaves kolkatta and meets sandhya in her village.

There he meets local police, Paparayudu(Brahmanandam), who has very bad reputation in the village.

How jaidev changes paparayudu’s image and uses him to finish off village’s villain sambasivudu and how bhagwan’s men trace him down forms the pre-climax.

They kidnap sandhya and Jai returns to kolkatta to release her.

How he faces kulkarni and bhagwan gangs alone is the climax.

Actors : Pawan Kalyan excelled both as mafia leader and lover.

His rugged full beard look, body language, dialogue delivery are impressive.

Especially in few scenes where his voice is used as narrative, he excels.

It is feast for fans to see Pawan’s rocking performance.

Sarah Jane Dias tried to look cute and romantic.

Eventhough she lacks the look, she managed few good expressions, especially in songs and in few romantic shots.

Anjali Lavania has very lesser role and is more of an item girl who has only 1 song.

Jackie Shroff, Tanikella Bharani, Atul Kulkarni and Subbaraju were as usual but new villain Adivi Sesh was excellent.

He showed varied expressions as a psycho villain and seems to have good future as a versatile actor on telugu screen.

Brahmanandam takes care of the comedy part in second half and infact without him, second half would be incomplete.

Especially, Paparayudu song shot on him and pawan was hilarious and is highlight of this movie.

Pawan Kalyan’s steps in this song gets huge response from crowds.

Technicians : This is a directors movie and Vishnuvardhan excels in his work.

His ideas can be seen through excellent cinematography of PS Vinod and art work of Sunil Babu.

In all technical departments, Yuvan Shankar Raja’s background music and PS Vinod’s cinematography standout as excellent works.

Editing by Sreekar Prasad is slick.

Stunts by Shyam Kaushal are thrilling, especially the climax fight.

Abburi Ravi’s dialogues are average and he doesnt use many oppurtunities in screenplay to showcase his talent.

Rahul Koda’s screenplay is gripping, except for few minutes in the begining of second half.

Vishnuvardhan has extracted best possible output from all his technicians in this movie.

Production values of Sanghamitra Arts and Arka Media are rich.

Highlights :

Pawan Kalyan’s presence and performance.

Cinematography by P.S.Vinod

Haunting Background Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Interval twist

Vishnuvardhan’s stylish taking

Comedy in second half

Verdict:

Panjaa is a stylish and sleek film that will probably not be enjoyed by Pawan fans. Regular moviegoers and non Pawan Kalyan fans will find the movie to be good. There are next to no commercial elements that people come to expect from Pawan Kalyan’s movies. But on the bright side, the stylish fight sequences, the subtle comedy and Pawan’s superbly restrained performance stand out in the movie. Brahmi’s episode is good. Watch it without expectations and you might enjoy the film.