Every film has its own niche audience and it is not right to get moralistic and judgemental on films that have been certified as having adult content. But there are degrees of crass and class in adult cinema too. Guntur Talkies is a crime comedy and such story is relatively new to Telugu audiences and it takes a few more films such as this to grab the attention to such subjects. Extracting strong performances from his actors and giving attention to minute details has been director Praveen Sattaru’s forte. He does an encore, but in the process he fails to engage the viewer for long. There is crime, yes, but comedy is just on paper. The crime after a while becomes uninteresting with an ensemble cast trying to recover a booty of five lakh that goes missing, and this is no comedy. When you watch a movie, you would want to wait and see the fate of the principal characters, here you care less.
Hari (Siddu) and Giri (Naresh) work in a pharmacy and they are frustrated with everything. The money they earn doesn’t suffice, so they resort to stealing at dusk and on one such occasion, they stumble on a bundle of notes. The happiness is short-lived, as each try to outdo the other and in the process are outsmarted by different set of people.
Casting-wise, Rashmi Gautam wasn’t entirely erroneous, the small tube anchor looks sensuous, but she could have waited for a right story to show her talent. She prefers to flaunt her body. Lakshmi Manchu’s appearance in a blink-and-miss role was a joke.
Siddu looks petulant in most part of the film. But the actor who takes away all the attention from everyone is senior actor Naresh. He does a fabulous job even when he is not talking as a sexually-frustrated man. There is no wow factor in the story, the attempt was more at creating a shock value. Cinematography is an asset and music is perfect for the milieu.
– Y. Sunita Chowdhary
Guntur Talkies
Cast : Naresh, Siddu
Direction: Praveen Sattaru
Music: Sricharan
Genre: Crime comedy
Plot: Small-time crooks risk their lives with a big robbery
