Film: Srikanth
Duration: 134 minutes
Director: Tushar Hiranandani
Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Jyothika, Alaya F and Sharad Kelkar
Camera: Pratham Mehtaa
Music: Tanishq Bagchi, Anand Milind
Duration: 134 minutes
IANS Rating: ***
Mumbai: Cinema is one medium that usually educates us about life. All that we see round us, observe, endure, and expertise is translated onto celluloid within the type of tales — fictional or biographical — although the narrative is constructed primarily from the filmmaker’s perspective.
This week’s Hindi launch, ‘Srikanth’, is a biographical movie on the lifetime of Srikanth Bolla, a visually impaired industrialist and founding father of Bollant Industries. Directed by Tushar Hiranandani, it stars Rajkummar Rao within the eponymous function with Jyotika, Alaya F and Sharad Kelkar taking part in the important thing supporting characters.
For Srikanth Bolla and his poor mother and father, life is difficult, extra so within the Seetharamapuram village in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh. His father (Srinivas Beesetty) has a dream and names him after his favorite cricketer, Krishnamachari Srikkanth. His pleasure is aware of no bounds on the time of his son’s (Arnav Abdagire) beginning, however it’s shortlived when he involves know that his youngster has a visible impairment.
Soon, he realises that his son is greater than particular with nice studying expertise, an achievement that makes Srikanth stand out in his class. When kids within the neighbourhood make enjoyable of Srikanth calling him names due to his incapacity, the boy retains quiet and takes all of it mendacity down. Not that Sri cannot struggle the bullies.
Sri’s supreme self-confidence turns into swagger when he’s despatched to a faculty for the visually challenged in Hyderabad. He meets his trainer Devki (Jyotika), who nearly immediately takes him below her wing and goes on to face beside him like a rock all through his life. Devki takes to him and encourages him to face any formidable problem that comes his manner.
The younger pupil confronts many hurdles alongside the journey of his training. The first one seems when his college denies him admission within the science stream. Jyotika hires a lawyer who argues in courtroom that for somebody who can not see, Srikanth has nice potential to analyse Newton’s regulation of gravity — a truth the boy proves in courtroom.
Dropping his strolling follow the ground, he demonstrates that he could not be capable of see the stick fall however can hear its velocity. That places an finish to the defence lawyer’s argument that Newton had seen the apple fall and thus had found the regulation of gravity.
Later he will get admission into MIT within the US, however just isn’t allowed to board the aircraft as a result of he was travelling alone. So he launches right into a presentation with a show of his information of all the airplane, all the way down to its exits and washrooms.
He makes a mark at MIT’s Sloan School of Management the place he stands out as one of many brightest college students of his class. He comes again to India in 2012 to create job alternatives for different visually impaired younger folks like him. He begins a groundbreaking enterprise that gives employment to unskilled and differently-abled people to create eco-friendly merchandise.
The movie chronicles the struggles of Srikanth proper from his childhood and tells us a real story that’s inspiring for certain. It is a unprecedented narrative of perseverance and achievement, from Srikanth’s 98 per cent in class to his getting chosen as the primary visually impaired worldwide pupil at MIT after being denied entry into the IITs.
Rajkummar Rao as Srikanth is unbelievably convincing. His gestures, physique language and speech completely match the character’s necessities and there is not a single exaggerated motion that might make us take a look at him as an actor portraying a job.
The solely side that makes his efficiency a tad compelled just isn’t for any fault of his method, however for the director’s obsession to drive it down on us as a contrived mechanism. By permitting the digicam to seize each twitch of his eyebrow and facial features, the main target is extra on how good an actor Rao is, which he’s. We want it have been carried out organically fairly than being thrust down upon us. As a end result, one pays extra consideration to Rao, the actor, and never the character.
Jyotika as his trainer is nice too. Sharad Kelkar as an industrialist buddy who’s greater than a do-gooder has a powerful presence. He can also be a wonderful actor who’s seen as giving his unconditional help to Srikanth.
There are a few songs performed within the background and thank God for that.
One of the 80s hits, ‘Papa Kehte Hain’, by Anand Milind from the Aamir Khan movie ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’, is used as a recurring theme all through, and although it would not actually encapsulate the lead participant’s life mission, it does sound good as a melody evoking nostalgia for viewers. Pratham Mehta’s camerawork is competently dealt with.
Tushar Hiranandani, whose earlier works as director have been ‘Saand Ki Aankh’ and ‘Scam 2023’ on OTT platforms, appears to have gotten carried away extra together with his actor than with the motivational and uplifting story of Srikanth.
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