Tamil film 96 of Trisha and Vijay Sethupathi, has left a great feel on audiences’ minds and the movie turned out as a classic. Remade as ‘Jaanu’ in Telugu, with Samantha and Sharwanand in the lead roles, the movie is releasing today.
Prem Kumar of the original is directing Jaanu in Telugu and he seems to have made some changes here. While Samantha has got all the applause for her extraordinary performance in Oh Baby, the high expectations on her ‘Jaanu’ are now intact. And also, Sharwa seems to be the best fit for the male lead in Jaanu, we have to see if this duo from Jaanu recreates the magic of 96 or hypnotizes us to forget 96 for Jaanu.
Final Report:
Jaanu is a carbon copy of the original that has different actors who tried to recreate the original.
Jaanu can connect to school time lovers from 90s and it is to be seen on how well the present day youth might connect to it.
Few scenes from School episodes in the first half were etched well and the younger Jaanu did well.
The slow narrative needs a mention though the performances of Sharwanand and Samantha manage to fill it up.
Background music in heart touching scene and few revelation scenes is good while the songs run along the story except the first one.
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Run-Time: 2 Hrs 30 Mins, Censored with Clean ‘U’ Certificate
– Jaanu starts off with Sharwanand at exotic locales around the world, capturing pictures of wild life and tribes.
– The life of Ram song penned by sirivennela.. Blues, Greens and Sands.. song shot nicely.
– Sharwa as Ram, teaches Photography. Varsha Bollamma as one of his students.
– Faded memories come back to Ram when he revisits his school.
– Vennela kishore introduced as Murali
– Whatsapp chat ‘scene’ is interesting, everybody can relate to it
– School friends plan for a meet after 15 yrs. It’s Flashback time..
– Sharanya Pradeep of ‘Fidaa’ Fame as Jaanu’s bestie and Raghu Babu introduced as watchman. Raghu Babu and Sharanya turns to be key roles in the movie.
– The younger ram looks much like Sharwa and is a best fit.
– Gouri G Kishan as Younger Jaanu, she has a great presence on screen and she excels in every frame.
– School scenes, First Love, Classrooms… movie on a slow pace and director going with a clean romantic narration.
– Tagubothu Ramesh gets a good role after long time.
-Samantha Classy entry as Jaanu at school reunion.
– Back from school scenes, Jaanu takes over.
First half report: Goes on a slow pace with most of the scenes from ‘back to school’. Younger Jaanu is expressive. Sharwanand performing well, a cake walk for him too. Vennela Kishore and Thagubothu Ramesh doing their part. So far, Director strictly following the original ’96’ format without any deviation. Nothing much for Samantha till now.
– Tanikella Bharani as barbar, looks like a look changer of second half. ‘Ram gets his beard trim’ scene is nice..
– Lighter conversation between Jaanu and Ram. Slowly Samantha performance leading the show.
– Movie still running at a slow pace with revelations from Jaanu.
– Past Misunderstandings turn the present emotional.
– Samantha does well in emotional scenes
– ItIt’s time for ‘Praanam’ song. This Melody song is very soothing to the soul
Poetic and shows the way how some words remain unsaid, if they did meet.
– Some interesting scenes when Ram and Jaanu bump into his students. Jaanu shares her love story with Ram’s students.
– Oohale oohale theme song..
Ram and Jaanu reminsed about a lot of school memories.
Best Dialogue In The Movie: Padi nelalu mosi kanna mee ammaku nuvvu sonthamaithe, Innalluga manasulo mosthunna naaku kuda nuvvu sonthame.
– Finally Jaanu sings something that Ram always wanted.
– Time to depart after long pauses, tears and no good byes.
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