Generally a war scene means you expect a lot of aerial shots, fast moving shots showing entire war location, but in this film there are lot of close up shots, with a great back ground score and editing the crew created the war environment in theater.
Instead of showing the entire life of the king, director concentrated on his two major wars and the dream of satakarni. The three things that stood out in this film are BGM, EDITING and DIALOGUES...almost entire war scenes happen with out dialogues, there wont be any inspirational speeches in between the war, everything was conveyed using BGM and the editing work in war scenes is excellent. BGM in this film elevated every scene and dialogue to another level.
Coming to the dialogues, there are lot of good dialogues, and the way balayya delivered them is mind blowing. The scene where he explains shriya how important his son is to him, the scene where he tells his dream, the pre interval dialogue, the scene where he explains about the greatness of mother, the climax dialogues, etc...all are goose bump scenes, with his dialogue delivery he created so much power in theater, it is good to see him in a good film....
Coming to the negative points of the film, first thing that comes to my mind is HEMA MALINI, i dont know why they picked her for mother character, she just does not suit to the character....similarly all the side characters who played small kings, their acting is so poor....second thing is make up of balakrishna, i felt they should have taken a little more care on his makeup, the wig does not suit to him at all...
Overall it is a very good film...if you have not watched it...watch it....
