Main film assessment: Sashi Kiran Tikka and Adivi Sesh’s tribute to Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan is all coronary heart

Director Sashi Kiran Tikka and actor-writer Adivi Sesh’s tribute to Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan is all coronary heart

Director Sashi Kiran Tikka and actor-writer Adivi Sesh’s tribute to Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan is all coronary heart

There are other ways to strategy a biopic of a soldier who was killed on a mission. One can be a scientific strategy that delineates the soldier’s mettle, culminating in a nail-biting end that’s replete with minute particulars of the dangerous operation. The opposite can be by an emotional lens, trying to seize the person behind the hero. Director Sashi Kiran Tikka and actor Adivi Sesh who has written the story and screenplay of Main, impressed by the lifetime of Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan who was killed within the 26/11 assaults of 2008, select the latter methodology. Their try will not be good, however efficient sufficient to go away viewers moved and pondering of troopers who stake the whole lot for the nation. And fortunately, there aren’t any jingoistic overtones.

Throughout pre-release interviews, Sashi talked about how Sandeep’s mother and father recalled reminiscences of their son, in a non-chronological method, with the stronger reminiscences popping up first. Within the movie, Ok Unnikrishnan (Prakash Raj) remembers Sandeep’s (Adivi Sesh) reminiscences in an identical, non-linear method. Everyone knows how Sandeep’s story would finish in the course of the 26/11 assaults. However Main will not be solely about him combating until his final breath, saving hostages at The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, from the terrorists. It’s about Sandeep, the individual, whose loyalty to the nation got here above his accountability in the direction of his mother and father, sister and partner. 

Main

Forged: Adivi Sesh, Saiee Manjrekar, Sobhita Dhulipala

Path: Sashi Kiran Tikka

Music: Sricharan Pakala

Languages: Telugu and Hindi

Sure parts really feel airbrushed, just like the childhood scenes that attempt to set up Sandeep’s fascination for the uniform. And later, when he intervenes in a home abuse incident, unmindful of the danger. We get that Sandeep put others’ security above him, however possibly these segments may have been written and depicted extra successfully. The Military coaching montages are picturised fantastically however don’t present Sandeep’s transformation. Did he fail, face setbacks and study from them? We don’t get sufficient of that studying curve. He’s earnest, decided and aces almost the whole lot.

However these are minor misgivings within the bigger image. As a plot machine, narrating Sandeep’s story by his mother and father Unnikrishnan and Dhanalakshmi helps to present the emotional gravitas. There’s a fragile, delicate method wherein the connection between Sandeep and Isha (Saiee Manjrekar) is portrayed, with its breezy romance, warts and all. At one level, when Isha laments that nobody would know the sacrifices made by a commando’s household, it hits the appropriate spot. 

A deeply shifting phase additionally includes Isha, and later Sandeep, telling one another at essential moments, ‘It’s higher you have no idea’. Abburi Ravi’s dialogues convey quite a bit with out melodrama.

A big portion of the movie unfolds inside The Taj Mahal Palace lodge the place the Mumbai police and the elite NSG commandos must make sense of the maze forward of them. The terrorists have the blueprint of the lodge and the entry playing cards, whereas the protective forces solely have their braveness, aside from their rifles. There are a number of wow moments in the course of the operation, nearly like a mainstream motion thriller. However it’s executed with out diluting the battle that’s on. There may be additionally a terrific phase the place Sandeep manipulates the media which is stay telecasting, unmindful of the hurt it’s doing to the hostages.

Vamsi Patchipulusu’s cinematography is an asset, shifting from the cosy, heat portrayal of Sandeep’s formative years after which shifting to the motion mode. Sricharan Pakala’s music befits the breezy romance and household drama. 

One can both mull over how a lot cinematic liberty and dramatisation was required to make this tribute or soak within the narrative that touches the appropriate emotional chords. What makes this tribute work can be the performances throughout. Adivi Sesh is efficient in exhibiting younger Sandeep’s innocence and later because the soldier who tells his friends, ‘don’t come up, I’ll deal with them’. That is an internalised efficiency and his profession finest. Anish Kuruvilla because the lodge supervisor and Sobhita Dhulipala as businesswoman Pramoda Reddy are good of their temporary, pivotal components. Saiee Manjrekar is sweet as Isha. Murali Sharma is efficient as at all times. A phrase of reward for Prakash Raj and Revathy. Their feelings within the closing moments of the movie may transfer you to tears.

Main lives as much as its promise of paying a befitting tribute to Sandeep Unnikrishnan. Do be careful for the tip credit to catch snapshots of Sandeep’s life.

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