Review of movie Savyasachi

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Rating:2.5/5

There’s a telling scene the film begins with, a bus filled with people who keep talking of Arun, an unseen individual whom all the strangers on the bus seem to know. Right then and there you know that you’re dealing with someone who’s prone to holding grudges and is willing to wait for a long time to extract his revenge, even if it means waiting for them to reach Kulu from Hyderabad. Why exactly does this man wait till there reach there, why now after so many years, you wonder, waiting for a plausible explanation to come through. And when it does come, you expect it to blow you away. But, does it?

Vikram (Naga Chaitanya) is the quintessential youngster with a happy family consisting of his sister (Bhumika), brother-in-law and loving niece Maha, whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his mother. Unfortunately for him, his family also consists of his twin Aditya, whom he absorbed before birth. Aditya is the polar opposite of Vikram, where the latter grabs pens and patiently woos women, the former is prone to to grabbing knives and hitting women on their bottoms – because why not? Aditya also likes to protect Vikram once in a while, when he’s not too busy getting him into trouble.

The love of Vikram’s life is Chitra (Nidhhi Agerwal), an old flame from college who runs an antique store now, filled with nostalgic pieces from the 80s and 90s. After hate-turned-to-love and misunderstandings galore, everything in Vikram’s life seems to be finally in place, except it’s not. Out to ruin him and his family is Arun (Madhavan), the cherubic looking evil incarnate, thankfully steering clear of cliché by making his girlfriend a target too. When it’s revealed why exactly Arun holds a grudge, it unfortunately comes as a fizz instead of a bang.