Sankranthi Telugu Movie
Venkatesh plays as a soft-spoken brother in "Sankranthi", the Telugu remake of the Tamil film "Anandam". Raghavendra (Venkatesh), Vishnu (Srikanth), Chinna (Siva Balaji) and Vamsi (Sarvanand) are brothers. Raghavendra is the self-sacrificing and idealistic head of a joint family. He runs a supermarket, and is reluctant to marry. In a flashback, it is revealed that he broke off with his true love Anjali (Aarti Agarwal) when she asked him to leave his family.
Raghavendra's parents and brothers are trying very hard to get him married. Finally, he marries Sneha.
Raghavendra's younger brother Vishnu marries Anajali's sister (Sangeeta), and she starts questioning Raghavendra's authority. Vishnu blindly believes his brother and even overrules his wife, but Raghavendra starts doubting Vishnu's intent.
Meanwhile, the other brother Chinna falls in love with the daughter of a dreaded don (Prakash Raj). Chinna decides, keeping in spirit with this filmy household, to sacrifice his love when the don threatens to eliminate his family if he does not leave his daughter alone.
The rest of the film is all about how these strong-willed brothers keep the joint family together and most of the time it is predictable, cliched, and quite boring.
Director Muppulaneni Siva's predictable screenplay is monotonous, and sometime it reminds you of many earlier movies. It's a good performance by Venkatesh in the lead role. He never tried to dominate nor underplayed it.
Veteran actress Sarada, on a comeback, performs the mother's role with ease. Sneha is good as an understanding family member. But there isn't anything for her to perform. All other actors have done their part well in this multi-starrer.
Music by SA Raj Kumar is average. There isn't any song that stays with you. Most of the songs are rehashes of old hits.
The movie will definitely attract family audience and it has got an excellent opening.
