HareRam Review

Film: Hare Ram
Rating: 3.75/5 ***
Banner: Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Arts
Cast: Kalyan Ram, Priya Mani, Sindhu Thulani, Kota, Raghu Babu, Laxmipathi, Brahmanandam, Ali, Venu Madhav, Apoorva etc
Music: Micky J Mayor
Dialogues: Swamiji-Vijay
Story: Gowri Shankar
Art: Vivek
Editing: Gowtham Raju
Cinematography: C Ram Prasad
Stunts: Ram-Laxman, Selva
Director: Harsha Vardhan
Producer: Nandamuri Kalyan Ram
Release Date: 18 July 2008

This is Kalyan Ram's second movie on his home banner. His efforts are seen in big way. He tried to showcase his acting prowess as spilt personality.

Story:
The film is about an IPS officer Hari (Kalyanram) who is busy investigating the murders of a news reporter (Prabhakar) and then a well known doctor (Rajeev Kanakala) and then discovers that these are the murders done by his conjugal twin Ram (Kalyanram).

The story goes that Ram has a problem with his brain and is unable to control his hyper emotions about few things which makes him a beast at times. He would not even hesitate to kill and does not like anyone being praised or belittling him. In this process, he builds a grudge against his own brother who is good at everything and tries to kill him right during their childhood. Their mother (Seetha) is unable to tolerate all this and takes it upon herself to change Ram, so she takes him away from Hari to avoid further hatred but then not much change happens in the nature of Ram even after they grow up. Meanwhile, Hari is often chased by Anjali (Priyamani) who poses as a bank employee but in truth she is actually a CBI officer who comes to arrest Hari since she suspects his hand in the killings of a news reporter (Prabhakar) and a well known doctor (Rajeev Kanakala). Apparently, the doctor happens to be the younger brother of the health minister Siva Reddy (Kota) and from then on the minister is closely on the heels of the killer. Anjali finally manages to arrest Hari successfully through a plan of hers and soon she realizes her folly when she chances upon his mother and understands the entire story of Hari and Ram.

Flashback..

Hari&Ram are conjoined twins.After successfully seperating them Doctor informs the parents (Chandramohan,Sita) that Ram might be a mentally retarded person when he
grows up.As a Kid Ram is irritated when someone points out his illness.His mom takes him away from home when he is aversed to his brilliant brother Hari &attempts to kill
him.

Why does Ram commit the two murders? Does he change his attitude towards his brother? Can Ram get out of the case smoothly? All this forms the rest of the story.

Performance:
Kalyanram has put his heart and soul to come up with a good performance and though he was nice in most of the scenes, he failed out during the intense scenes which required good depiction of emotions and expressions, his dialogue delivery is ok. He portrayed good histrionics in the role of Ram.

Priyamani worked well on screen as a 'Glamour girl'.

Kota was the apt choice for the corrupt politician but there was not much gravity to his role.

Seetha did her role effectively as the unlucky mother, the comedy track was an utter disappointment and despite the presence of highly experienced and entertaining actors like Brahmanandam, Ali, Raghu Babu and Venu Madhav, nothing happened to the funny bones.

Ashok Kumar was hysterical which was annoying.

The others were okay with their performances but could not contribute much to the film.

The director has shown his amateur approach and though the idea was clear in his mind, he messed up narration with some shoddy screenplay and sour dialogues. The saving grace of the film is some good background score and worthy songs along with top notch camerawork and well executed stunt scenes though the fight sequences were quite savage. Costumes were good on the lead pair and editing was alright.

Highlights:

Kalyanram excelled in dual role.Hareram provided the actor enough scope to showcase his ingenuity.
Director Harshavardhan ( Swarna Subbarao) tried to present Hareram as a stylish action thriller and he succeded somewhat.
Priyamani is ok.
Music(Micky J.Meyyer)is good in songs.Rerecording is awesome Mainly background score
Cinematography(Ramprasad) has done good effort.
production values
Action Episodes

Sidelights:
First half is ok with interval bang Twist,Second half is better.
The movie has a decent plot &neat characterisation to thrill the audience.But the screenplay isn't that good.it lacks pace & the director failed to maintain the tempo.Despite the presence of Brahmanandam,Ali,Raghubabu there isn't much comedy.(More care should be taken on Comedy plot)

Analysis:

First Half of the film is decent the interval twist leads the audience to the second half with high hopes.secondhalf meets the expectations of the audience.And the last 15 minutes show is captivating with high value stunts and fly cam work.Director has chosen right story and did his best.

The film is opened with old style of movies and slowly appreciated the momentum and holds audience interest. On a whole the movie has all commercial values to become a decent hit. Technical values are strong. Production values from NTR arts is so rich. Already it

Public Talk :Worth watching
Industry Talk : Tremendous Action Flick Works out at boxoffice