It is very tough to make a commercial movie out of real-life incidents. Shankar's Bharateeyudu and Gentleman and Late Tirupathi Reddy's Ganesh are some of the movies that were successfully crafted based on real-life happenings.
Puri Jagannadh, known for his stylized, commercial movies falls flat in dealing with a realistic subject in Neninthe. He is caught between realistic and mainstream cinema. In Neninthe, Puri takes a dig at the movie reviewers, film websites carrying gossips, die-hard fans and a section of audience who watch movies based on the reviews.
The casting is really good and the aesthetics brilliant. Unfortunately bad screenplay, lack of seriousness in prime characters and a few forcefully inserted scenes mar the film badly. He unnecessarily glorified cinema industry, where only a few make movies out of passion. Puri liberally uses native expletives, though muted, yet were identifiable. However, he should be commended for criticizing the fanatic behavior of fans and explaining how their hero-worship acts as deterrent to creativity of directors.
Ravi Teja simply is tremendous and sincere as the struggling assistant director, but one feels that his character was better etched in krishnavamsi's Khadgam. The heroine is okay and Brahmanandam's character should have been a bit more serious. Chakri's music is good in parts and the songs Krishna nagare mama and Oh I miss you are good.
On the whole, Neninthe is a nice attempt gone awry.
My favorite scenes:
1. Interval episode
2. Hero cutting backs of the villain's aides purposefully, and
3. Hero asking villains to scold him and not his mother and sister.
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