Sowryam

Story Shiva Kumar
Screenplay Shiva Kumar
Direction Shiva Kumar
Camera Vetri
Editing Marthand Venkatesh
Music Mani Sharma
Dialogs M Ratnam
Action Vijay
Producer Anand Prasad
Banner Bhavya Arts
Release Sep-25-2008
Reviewed on Sep-25-2008
*ing: Anushka, Gopichand, Dharmavarapu, Ali, Manoj K jain

Noted Cinematographer Sivakumar turned director with Sowryam starring Gopichand and Anushka. Though this is his first film, he proves his potential and gets good marks as director. His takings are pretty good. Sowryam has plenty of entertainment and action and little of sentiment. In short, the film is a typical Gopichand flick directed by Sivakumar in his style.

Sowryam is about a brother and a sister. They - Vijay (Gopichand) and Divya (Poonam Kaur) become orphans when their rowdy sheeter dad is killed in an encounter. Vijay grows up to become ACP with the support of a police officer (Sarat Babu). As a powerful cop, Vijay puts his energy in controlling Sivaram Gowd (Manoj Jain), who runs bad activities in the city. Problems start for Vijay when Sivaram Gowd comes to know the weak point of Vijay, his sister. How Vijay tackled the problems is the rest of the plot.

Gopichand, as usual, delivered yet another macho performance. One of the highlights in this film is the comedy worked out on him. Comedy scenes involving Gopichand, Ali, Anushka bring out good laughs. Also, scenes in the second half where Gopichand troubles the goons are done in a different style. Also, dance numbers are nicely choreographed for him and he did very good. Chemistry between Gopichand and Anushka also worked out very well. Anushka looked much better in the film. She not only looked good but also did well in the comedy sequences.

Even though Poonam Kaur played key role as Gopichand's sister, she did not have much scope to perform. She utilized the one chance in the climax to perform and she did it very well.

Manoj K. Jain as Sivaram Gowd did excellent job. He transformed himself into the character. Ajay, as son of Sivaram Gowd, did the role in his own style. Ali, Krishna Bhagavan, Raghu Babu did comedy in the film and they are successful in generating laughs. Even though MS Narayana's role is short, he is impressive. Thanikella Bharani, Dharmavarapu, Sudha and others are content in their roles.

Technically, even though the story is not new, it is the screenplay and narration that makes it interesting. Sivakumar's grip on comedy seems to have worked out well. Sequences are nicely interconnected and flow is smooth. It is a good job done by Sivakumar.

Cinematography by Vetri is good. Marthand Venkatesh's editing is slick and paces up the film. Mani Sharma's music is good for songs and excellent for the re-recording (background). Especially, rerecording for Ali's scenes add more humour to the scenes. Dialogs by M Ratnam are good but looks like the dialogs had to take censor cut at places. Action scenes composed by Vijay are good. Sets erected by Vivek are so so.

Overall, the chances are good that Sowryam can turn into another Lakshyam. Climax and the story might stand as negative but they will be overweighed by Positives in the film - good comedy, lead performances, excellent re-recording. Overall, Sowryam is a typical Gopichand styled flick.