Story: A full-time bank employee and part-time kabaddi coach wants to bring national relevance to the school his father built and help young kabaddi players in his village win the national championship. This can be harder than training them.
Review: Festivals would not be complete without mass spice entertainment and Seethimar certainly deserves this Ganesha Chaturthi. The long awaited movie of Sampath Nandi has finally been released and thankfully, it does not end up being a bland watch.
Karthi (Gopichand) trains young women in kabaddi in her village in Andhra Pradesh and Jwala Reddy (Tamanna Bhatiya) in Telangana. The duo landed in Delhi to help win the national championship but the threatening villain Singh (Tarun Arora) is kidnapping the AP team with other plans. Karthi now has to stretch his muscles beyond training and bring his team up before it is too late.
Thankfully every promo item in Seethimar has prepared you to be the Pakka Mass Actioner, the game part of which is the background. However Sampath Nandi also uses its kabaddi part for entertainment. Bodies fly from body to screen, which does not stop until the end. The intro fight erupts and the film takes its own pleasant time to get to the real plot. We have seen many sports dramas where patriarchy does not allow girls to get what they deserve, and there are scenes where the lead actor empowers women with dramatic conversations with a girl and her parents. Sexual feelings have been manipulated by such conversations for decades, but this is not surprising because you were prepared for this in a film with the song Pepsi Aunty. The space chapter works well and is interesting to watch the other half of the film.
Expected Kabaddi bits will be available in a very dramatic manner with the abduction of an entire team. Singh, a UP don controls his area as easily as he can chew pan, giving our hero Karthi time to destroy his entire empire by the end of his ‘South Ka Law’ movie. Sampath Nandi chooses to insert beautiful and sexy duets amidst the fierce conflict that seems to be a different choice. Imagine coaches Jwala Reddy and Karthi taking a break to dance for Jwala Reddy when the team is in danger. Otherwise the song will be well filmed and will be remembered for a long time.
If Tamanna’s character came out better, the film would not be predictable anyway. The actress tries her best to pull off the Telangana accent, but it is difficult to find a clue in managing it. The time has come to try to make some languages identical by lazily placing some words that are supposed to work. The action scenes in the climax are back to the top and it will be interesting even if it is not your favorite genre. The film does not lose momentum until the very end, for which the incident must be appreciated.
Gopichand always gives 100% and he does in Sitimar. He is fit and wonderful as a kabaddi coach and also gives emotional scenes. But it feels like business boundaries are stopping him from showing what a good actor he really is. Tamanna’s charisma is distracted from a testosterone high movie, otherwise her character and team seem irrelevant to the story. Digangana Suryavanshi has nothing to do much for the same reason. Other actors, especially kabaddi players, have professional looks on screen.
Its mass spiciness really makes it possible to ignore many of the flaws in the fungus, which supports a strong script. In this OTT era this film is a penny worth..
