Interesting Facts

1) During F2, Anil ravipudi met Mahesh babu and narrated the storyline and he liked it a lot and they said ok. "I was inspired by the real life happenings in the life of a soldier while traveling in a train. The soldier was alone in the train and returning home and we interacted on various topics.

Though he was interacting with me, his entire concentration was on his duty and I understood that though soldiers go to their houses, they will be thinking of their duty. At the same time I realized that soldiers too have similar kind of emotions like everyone of us

2) Jagapathi babu was the original choice for villain but he was replace by Prakash Raj, jagapathi babu gave video clarification konni situations vallla, konni konni jaruguthu vuntayi industry lo, thappavu avvi, part of parcel and life saga teeskovali, aa situation valla aa cinema lo nenu lenu. He rejected two films for Sarileru as well.

3) Sai Pallavi was the original choice for the heroine but she rejected it and went to Rashmika. Sai Pallavi knew before hand that if she did this, the audience would garner more hatred towards her for sure, and as an audience we can’t imagine her in that role as her role in MCA was so irritating.

4) Konda Reddy Buruju set in Ramoji Film City costed 4 crores around 500K USD and then a house set in Aziz Nagar was built for the movie and can see it almost telugu movie now: Lakshya, Bangarajju, Krack, Gaali Sampath, Tuck Jagadish, Seetimaar,

5) First schedule on July 5th and ended on November 8th, so exactly 6 months almost, quickest big film other than Aravinda Sametha which was 5 months April 2018 to September.

6) Marked Vijayashanti’s comeback to Telugu cinema and first time acting with mahesh babu after Koduku Diddina Kapuram so nice to see the legend back.

Story: Combo of Okkadu and Athadu which sounds amazing but it’s very simple and routine. Ajay Mahesh babu goes to Ajay Satyadevs village to relay a message to his family that he has died in battle. Then he realizes that in the village Satyadev’s family is under threat from MLA Nagendra who is a corrupt and evil leader in Kurnool. Then he makes it his mission to make Nagendra realize his mistake and reform him. This is the story in a nutshell

Acting: Mahesh Babu one man show, Vijayashanti is great, Bandla Ganesh funny

Writing/Direction: very amateur level but the mass blocks in the movie and Mahesh Babu make it watchable. Train comedy is worst. and there is no train from Kashmir to Kurnool. Direction is good, you never feel bored, story is routine, Mahesh babu one man show. But overall it’s entertaining movie. Heroine role and family is worst.

Technicalities

Music: Worst

Production design: world class.

Fights: Interval fight is good

Editing: Train scene

Dialogues: Meow Moew Pilli, Milk Boy tho Pelli, Ilanti never before ever after

Yevadu yevadu ni vodilali raa, pave ganta nundi,

What is good: Mahesh Babu, pacing, fights, cinematography and songs

What is bad: depiction of the soldiers and what exactly happens, you actually forget that he’s a soldier other than the beginning, Vijayashanti house, and then climax, but there’s no justification.

Basically the writing isn’t good. Rape comedy and rape jokes. MB and the producers should know better. Comedy isn’t fresh, it’s very forced.

Other than some moments with Prakash Raj and Sangeetha, nothing works.

Weak hero villain conflict. Best example of this is like Singam, hero and villain one upping each other. Here it’s just convos and Prakash Raj is some minister who can’t do anything to a simple soldier. Like in Race Gurram when Ravi Kishan cant do shit to Allu Arjun despite being the CM lmao. Climax makes no sense, to reform criminals, you send them to the army to learn responsibility. If anything should have throw him in jail or just killed him tbh.

Revisiting Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020): Review + Interesting Facts