Prasthanam

Prasthanam
Directed by Deva Katta
Produced by

Ravi Vallabhaneni

VijayKrishna L
Written by Deva Katta
Starring
Music by Mahesh Shankar
Cinematography Shamdat
Edited by Dharmendra Kakarala
Release date
  • 16 April 2010 (2010-04-16)
Running time
 181 minutes
Country India
Language Telugu
Budget ₹ 3.18 crores

Prasthanam (Telugu: ప్రస్థానం; English: Reign) is a 2010 Indian Telugu-language political thriller film written and directed by Deva Katta. The film was produced by Ravi Vallabhaneni under VRC Media & Entertainment banner. The film received generally positive response upon release with praise for Sai Kumar's performance. It won three filmfare awards and was also selected for screening in the Indian Panorama section at International Film Festival of India, Goa.[1][2] The film was dubbed and released in Tamil as Padhavi.

Prasthanam is being remade in Hindi as Prasthaanam by Deva Katta, with Sanjay Dutt as Loki and Ali Fazal as Mitra.[3]It is also being remade into Bengali starring Arifin Shuvo as Mitra and Ilias Kanchan as loki.

This film is regarded by many as one of the best films of the modern era. Critics praised the depth of the story and lead actors performance.

Plot

Ketti Lokanatham Naidu alias Loki (Sai Kumar) takes over the reins of a rural political power from a dying man, Galla Dasharatha Rama Naidu (Balayya). On his death bed, Galla Dasharatha Rama Naidu requests Lokanatham to marry his widowed daughter-in-law Savitri whose husband Galla Keshava (Ravi Prakash) was murdered by rival political group. Lokanatham complies. His stepson is Mitranand alias Mitra (Sharwanand) and his own son is Chinna (Sundeep Kishan). While Mitra is a devoted and loving son to Lokanatham, his step daughter Valli (Surekha Vani) hates him for marrying their mother and severs ties with them. Lokanatham wants to see Mitra as his heir because Mitra is a thinking man whereas Chinna is hot-blooded with a bad life style. Chinna loathes Mitra because he receives lesser attention than Mitra from his father and is constantly discouraged by his father from entering politics. Mitra's sister's sister-in-law is his love interest. Chinna gets upset on learning that Mitra is the new youth president of the party. That night, he gets high on drugs and sexually assaults Hameed Basha's daughter Nadia (Rashmi Gautam) and she dies when they get into a road accident. Mitra wants to punish Chinna for the heinous act while Chinna unsuccessfully tries to get Mitra killed in a movie theater. Chinna then kills Mitra's sister and her husband.

As a twist in the tale, Lokanatham Naidu sacrifices his political goodwill to protect Chinna. By doing so, he and Mitra are forced to confront each other. Lokanatham has Mitra beaten up when Mitra chases after Chinna to avenge his sister. Mitra leaves the house and moves to his old home in the village and then kills Chinna. Lokanatham orders both Mitra and Basha to be killed. Basha saves Mitra from the goons and tells him a terrible secret from Loknath's past. Loknath had actually killed Mitra's biological father, who was merely injured in the fight with the political rivals.

Mitra confronts Lokanatham with this secret and tells him that no amount of reading puranas will absolve him of his heinous deed. Lokanatham then says "Go beyond the puranas; there are no villains and heroes in this world, there are only ordinary people commiting sins to fulfill their goals". Lokanatham then tries to kill Basha, when Mitra snatches the gun from him. Lokanatham tells Mitra to kill him; Mitra falls down on Lokanatham's feet and says that Lokanatham is the only father he has ever known and even if his biological father had lived, Mitra would not have loved him as much as Lokanatham. With this, Mitra and Basha leave.

The film ends with Lokanatham shooting himself.

Themes

The movie, on one hand, deals with politics at grass root levels that occur in villages of India, corrupt political system and the nexus between businessmen and politicians. On the other hand, the movie deals with themes like greed, ambition and devotion which are driving forces of the lead characters in this movie. A movie-buff argues that the central theme revolves around the quote from the Book of Exodus, Old Testament, –"The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children."[4]

Cast

Soundtrack

The Music Was Composed By Mahesh Shankar and Released by T-Series.

Prasthanam
Film score by Mahesh Shankar
Released 12 December 2009 [5]
Recorded 2009
Genre Soundtrack
Length 28:22
Label T-Series
Producer Mahesh Shankar
Mahesh Shankar chronology
Inkosaari
(2010)		 Prasthanam
(2009)		 Vareva
(2011)
No.TitleLyricsPerformer(s)Length
1."Payanamae"Deva KattaVV.Prasanna, Niranjanaiah Katta3:06
2."Bedaro"Chaitanya PrasadDeepu3:51
3."Evado Vaadu"Deva KattaNarayana4:47
4."Murali Lola"VanamaliKalyani, Saindhavi, Rahul Nambiar, Sriram4:24
5."Naayudochaadoe"VanamaliVV.Prasanna3:34
6."Innalluga"VanamaliSahithi, Mahesh Shankar4:50
7."Nee Rendallo"VanamaliKarthik, S.Sowmya3:50
Total length:28:22

Reception

Despite fierce competition from other big star movies such as Simha and Darling, the movie did modestly well at the box office.

Awards

Nandi Awards
Filmfare Awards South

See also

References

  1. ↑ Suresh Krishnamoorthy (2010-10-22). "NATIONAL / ANDHRA PRADESH : 'Prasthanam' gets a place in Indian Panorama". The Hindu. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
  2. ↑ Archived 9 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Hindi remake of 'Prasthanam' to star Sooraj Pancholi in the lead? - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. ↑ "Prasthanam website". Archived from the original on 10 March 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.ragalahari.com/functions/3338/prasthanam-audio-release.aspx
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