
KRR blended his brand commercial tinge into this spiritual script offering a complete cinema experience.īeginning with Hathiram Baba childhood episodes and his classes at Anubhavananda Swamy, there’s KRR mark lets for a smooth take off. Those areas when ONV lacks in content or emotions, seniority of artists and technicians level the final output.

After Annamayya and Sri Ramadasu, definitely ONV falls short in striking a similar emotional chord but to learn about a rather not-so-popular Hathiram Baba made the film meaningful. When there’s a successful team like Nag, KRR and Keeravani in it, obviously it becomes much safe. Om Namo Venkatesaya Rating Analysis: Devotional plots dealing with bond between god and devotee are always secure. Brahmanandam, Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, Raghu Babu, Sampat Raj, Jabardast Batch were just ok. Pragnya Jaiswal shined in a song while Anushka’s lengthy Krishnamma character is marred by odd physique. Vimala Raman, Ashmita are fine as Laxmi Devi and Bhudevi. His height, stature and warmth in smile are mesmerizing. One artist who equaled Suman’s majesty as Lord Balaji is Saurabh Jain. His interactions with Lord Balaji and merging into God in the climax are best parts. After gaining lots of experience in this genre, Nag cakewalked as Hathiram Baba. Onto performances, there’s no alternative for Nagarjuna in TFI to take up Annamayya or Sri Ramadasu and now Hathiram Baba. Production standards from Mahesh Reddy are extremely wonderful. Goutham Raju’s editing is mediocre and needs some immediate chopping.

One has to understand the elevation of spirituality while cranking camera in such atypical subjects. S Gopal Reddy’s cinematography is brightly impressive. MM Keeravani’s music is delightful and his RR kept emotions on high. Despite narrative flaws and monotonous treatment is clearly visible, viewers may not complain big as final godliness essence fills the soul and end result is achieved. Raghavendra Rao took this concept to next level with magical handling of every technical department. JK Bharavi does his work incorporating cinematic aspects into a rather biographical film. Apparently, ‘Om Namo Venkatesaya’ appears to have been scripted on the same line of above mentioned two but kudos to the team for keeping faith and sanctity intact. JK Bharavi and Raghavendra Rao have dug a hill out of mole. Except Lord Balaji used to visit Hathiram Baba and they used to play dice, there’s no concrete information available. Om Namo Venkatesaya Artists & Technicians: Unlike Annamayya or Sri Ramadasu, the story of Hathiram Baba is not so popular in Telugu states. How Ram became Hathiram Baba? Why he took to the extreme step of Sajeeva Samadhi is rest. Pleased by Ram’s allegiance, Venkateshwara Swamy begins to frequently visit the Mutt, plays dice with him and loses everything. Saving Tirumala from clutcsmhes of corrupt mediators (Rao Ramesh, Vennela Kishore, Raghu Babu and others), Ram enlightens pilgrims teaching the sacredness of temple, brings new glory to temple town. Ram fails to identify his own creator but once realizes the mistake goes on spiritual path to Tiruamala establishing a Mutt with help of Krishnamma (Anushka). After early education at Anubhavananda Swamy (Sai Kumar), Ram goes into decades of penance only to get disturbed by Lord Venkateshwara Swamy (Saurabh Raj Jain) who arrives on earth in the form of a child. Om Namo Venkatesaya Story: From very childhood days, an enthusiastic Ram (Nagarjuna) is driven by the only goal of contacting with almighty.

After Annamayya and Sri Ramadasu, the popular combination of K Raghavendra Rao, JK Bharavi, Nagarjuna and MM Keeravani is set on to narrate one more story between God and his most loved disciple. Om Namo Venkatesaya Review, What’s Behind: The title of ONV is derived from divine chants of Lord Balaji and so is the story of Hathiram Baba, an ardent devotee of Tirumala Sri Venkateshwara Swamy.
