"SHANKARDADA ZINDABAD" Movie Review
Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local dada. Shankar loses his heart to Jahnavi (Karishma Kotak), a radio jockey, after listening to her sweet voice in an FM channel. Once, he gets an opportunity to meet her through a contest on Gandhi and his teachings.With the help of some professors, Shankar manages to win the contest and meets her. Jahnavi invites him to Second Innings House where there are some old men to give a lecture on Gandhigiri. With no options left, Shankar goes to library and reads about Gandhi.
As he continues to study about Gandhi, Shankar gets hallucination of watching Bapu. It helps him in the other way in giving good messages to the society.Shankar starts frequenting to Second Innings House to meet Jahnavi. Rajalingam (Sayaji Shinde) eyes that house, for the marriage of his daughter. Learning that Shankar's girlfriend Jahnavi is staying with those old men, Rajalingam plans a trip for Shankar along with Jahnavi and the old men and gets the building vacated by ATM.
Shankar tells Rajalingam to return that building and he starts using Gandhigiri instead of Dadagiri. But Rajalingam did not relent. In order to teach him a lesson, Shankar and the old men start staging Satyagraha. At one point, Shankar reveals to Jahnavi that he was not a professor and only a local dada. So Jahnavi hates him and leaves the place.In the climax, when Rajalingam's daughter's marriage was about to be cancelled, Shankar enters the scene and tries to convince the bridegroom's father (Saratbabu). Though he refuses to accept the alliance, his son (Pawan Kalyan) tells his father that he would surely marry the girl, as he became a fan of Shankar through the FM programme. The film ends on a happy note with the union of Shankar and Jahnavi.Chiranjeevi once again proved that he is an expert in comedy timing and did the role with fantastic ease.Debutant heroine Karishma Katak is the main drawback of the film.Srikanth had got yet another chance to work with Chiranjeevi and he had a lengthy role along with Chiranjeevi.
The scene where Chiru says sorry to Srikanth is excellent. Pawan Kalyan, Sada, Raviteja, Allu Arjun, Prabhudeva, Devisri Prasad gave a guest appearance in the movie.The production values of Gemini Film Circuit are adequate.
First half of the film offers entertainment. Second half has heavy moments with emotional appeal.
Starring : Chiranjeevi, Karishma Kotak, Srikanth, Sayaji Shinde, Sada, Rohit, Brahmanandam, MS Narayana, Venu Madhav, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Melkote, Kantha Rao, Sunil, Yana Gupta
Special Appearence : Pawan Kalyan, Raviteja, Alluarjun, Prabudeva, Nagendrababu.
Camera : Chota K Naidu
Dialogues : Paruchuri brothers
Music : Devi Sri PrasadStory : Raju Hirani
Screenplay - direction : Prabhudeva
Producer: Gemini Film Circuit
Released on : 27 July 2007
