Ugram starring Allari Naresh in the cop role is carrying good expectations among the public. Directed by Vijay Kanakamedala, the film has hit the screens today.Let’s see how it fares.
Story: Shiva (Naresh) is a strict police officer who catches a weed smoking Gang who sexually abuses young girls. He arrests them and later this gang warns his wife Aparna(Mirnaa Menon) in an sexually forcing attitude. frustrated Shiva kills all the three, but misses one of them. Later, he along with his family meets with an accident and his wife and daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances. Is the fourth person in the gang responsible for missing of Shiva’s wife and daughter? How does Shiva solve this missing mystery? How the story takes a social turn eventually, forms the crucial crux.
Performances: Naresh is substantial in the role as aggressive natured cop. His acting during the key developments in the plotline adds realistic texture to the proceedings.
His emotions are captured nicely. For the first time he did an out and out serious role and fitted decently in the given responsible role. As most of the film runs on his character, there are no characters particularly to mention here.
Heroine Mirnaa Menon is beautiful on screen and is convincing in the role of house wife. The child artist who played the daughter role is impressive with her acting.
Other artists such as Indraja among others are fine with their acting skills.
Technicalities: Vijay Kanakamedala has dealt the story in a largely gripping manner. The suspense factor is handled decently but the core point is misleading with some unwanted elevation scenes on the hero.
The screenplay would have been even brisker to maintain the suspense factor in the plotline.Editing work by Prawin Pudi is okay but would have been even better.
Cinemautography work by Siddharth J. is okay as captured the entire film on a lavish note. Especially, his work is visible in fight sequences.
Sricharan Pakala music work registers in parts as his work is largely disappointment.
Production values for this limited budget movie are okay as the case with production design work.
Analysis: Interesting Storyline and initial Setup so far but majority of the first half is filled with a dull romantic track and back to back action sequences that don’t work out.
Though Allari Naresh gave a good performance especially in the climax portions but for some reason his dialogue delivery is non-sync in a few mass scenes. BGM is decent in parts. Film could use some editing especially with random song placements that ruin the flow.
To summarize, Ugram a mystery thriller that had an interesting storyline and good setup but falters in terms of execution for the most part. There were a few good sequences that worked but unnecessary commercial elements and dull writing ruin the flow in places.
Verdict: Mediocre!
Rating: 2.5/5
