Director Vakkantam Vamsi has this habit of picking some Hollywood films and removing certain parts out of them and then coming up with his own version of a ‘successful’ story. That happened many times and many of his stories including Oosaravelli and Yevadu have such direct reference to foreign films.
Coming to Naa Peru Surya, many age-old cinema lovers can’t stop themselves about the 2002 biographical drama “Antwone Fischer”. The film deals with the real life of US Navy sailor Antwone Fischer, how his abusive childhood led him to a violent guy and how his violent behaviour led to his sacking from the armed forces. Though he took sessions from a noted psychiatrist, he’s never back in the army and ended up as a screenwriter. The film did considerably well at USA box office.
You might feel shocking, but the story of Naa Peru Surya is also pretty much same. However, the ever-clever Telugu writers team chopped out the abusive childhood part of the hero, as Telugu heroes will never get abused by any. That made audience clueless about why Surya character behaves so violently in the movie. In the original film that might have inspired Vakkantam, hero’s target is all about finding his true parents after his psychiatrist advises him to do so. But here in NPS, the physiatrist himself turned his father.
At the same time, the real Antwone Fischer worked as security guard at Sony Films after getting sacked from army though he took classes from a psychiatrist for his behaviour. Later he wrote his own biography and became co-producer (nominated) for “Antwone Fischer” and then he went on writing books, screenplays and films. But in “Naa Peru Surya”, the hero wishes to go back to the army as if ‘court marshall’ is a small thing and suspension is nothing. Well, that’s the Telugu hero effect and it didn’t work bro!!
In the end, Vakkantam might say that Antwone Fischer has got nothing to do with his story, but people are already watching that old American movie to get their doubts cleared.
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