Nandini Narsing Home Telugu Movie Review

Nandini Nursing Home:

The capacity of Tollywood to make good cinema has been in doubt for a while in some sections. Last year when we bagged the nation’s most prestigious award we all did some chest thumping but have since promptly and with vengeance gone back to our old bad ways. The challenge apparently appears to be to translate a simple story (even time tested ones) into a absorbing viewable product. The typical film maker – from the very successful to the debutant (PV Giri) seem caught in an inextricable cobweb where everything except a clear crisp script and skill to tell the story get preference.
Nandini Nursing Home is no surprise. It not only treads the beaten track but so strongly suffers unjustified self-belief that the film keeps you seated for over two and half hours of running time. The dosage is not only unpalatable but strong. Most industries in contemporary times is regulated by some standards of accountability and a verificatory process in place. Not our cinema. The result is all too obvious to see. It appears to be a case of money, a story an assembled cast launched on a scale proportionate to the star in question. Cinema here is not art. It is a misadventure.
Chandu (Naveen Vijay Krishna) is a M Com who is looking out for a job and comes to the city where he meets up with old friend Naidu (Shakalaka Shanker). Though unqualified he finds himself appointed as a doctor at the Nursing Home run by Dr Murthy (JP) and his daughter Nandini (Nitya Naresh). Naidu and Chandu manage to hoodwink all and sundry and begin to live a comfortable life. They also get into the good books of the main doctor Dr Venbkateshwarlu (Jaiprakash Reddy) who believes more in astrology then the medical profession.
Soon things begin to happen in the hospital. Some mysterious deaths, some intrigue and even some conspiracy. Admitted in the same nursing home is chain snatcher Ganesh (Venella Kishore) who feigns coma to escape from the police and another in patient (Saptagiri) who sublets his room for dubious sexual meets.
Nandini falls in love with Chandu but Chandu is yet to get over his jilted love story with Amulya (Shravya) who he believes has left him for money. Who is behind the killings? Is the nursing home haunted as believed and rumoured? Stay on to find out all this in the midst of a few light moments.
The film is told in too much leisure without much style or substance. The comic wingers keep things going to a certain extent. Particularly Vennella Kishore does everything right and refuses to go overboard. The two heroines, like always have nothing to do. Debutant hero is among those who have made it to the cinema screen without going to the gym. However, as an actor he seems to have the genes in the right place and lives up to the family repute. He is promising. Otherwise the visit to the film is as pleasant and welcome as having to go to a Nursing Home.

Rating: 1.5 stars
+ Humour
– Predictable

L. Ravichander.