SP Motion Pictures’ Surya (Marathi; UA) is the story of a brave army captain, Surya (Prasad Mangesh), who lives in a chawl with his police-hawaldar-father, Nana Patil (Arun Nalawade), mother, Vatsala (Sanjeevani Jadhav), and sister, Arya (Gauri Deshmukh). He is posted elsewhere and visits his home during vacations. The chawl owner, Champaklal (Jasbir Thandi), wants his chawl vacated, but Nana Patil instigates the chawl-dwellers to not vacate it.
Naru Anna (Akhilenda Mishra) and his younger brother, Munna Reddy (Harry Josh), are hired by Razakbhai (Hemant Birje) to forcibly vacate the chawl at the behest of Champaklal. In the fracas that follows, Surya’s family is wiped out. Surya now swears revenge. He joins forces with ACP Bhosale (Sandesh Jadhav) to bring the evil men to book. In the process, he kills some of them and also exposes the chief minister who is the mastermind behind the chawl eviction drama.
Mangesh Thange has penned a routine story which does not even pretend to be novel. It has a little bit of comedy, some romance, plenty of action and a dash of emotions too, but they all fail to have the desired impact. The screenplay, written by Vijay Kadam and Mangesh Thange, is replete with clichéd scenes and predictable twists and turns. So routine is the drama that the viewers just don’t get involved in it, watching it unfold as merely silent spectators instead. Dialogues (Vijay Kadam, Mangesh Kedar and Hemant Edalabadkar) are ordinary.
Prasad Mangesh does a routine job as Surya. Ruchitra Jadhav is okay as Surya’s girlfriend, Kajal. Arun Nalawade is alright as Nana Patil. Sanjeevani Jadhav lends fair support as Vatsala. Hemant Birje doesn’t impress as Razakbhai. Akhilendra Mishra (as Naru Anna) makes his presence felt. Harry Josh is impressive as Munna Reddy. Ganesh Yadav leaves a mark as corrupt police inspector Udaysingh More. Sandesh Jadhav is okay in the role of ACP Bhosale. Pankaj Vishnu provides adequate support as chief minister Aabasaheb Deshmukh. Jasbir Thandi (as Champaklal), Gauri Deshmukh (as Arya), Uday Tikekar (as MLA Tatya Patil), Pradeep Patwardhan (as Qasim Shaikh), Deepjyoti Naik (as Qasim Shaikh’s wife) and Pratap Borhade are average. Devshi Khanduri hardly impresses as Riya.
Hasnain Hyderabadwala’s direction is too routine to be true. Dev Chouhan’s music comprises one good song (‘Raapchik raapchik Kolinbai’) and other ordinary numbers. Lyrics (Baba Chavan, Santosh Darekar, Sanjay Mishra and Dev Chouhan) are alright. The picturisaton of the ‘Raapchik’ song (by Umesh Jadhav) is eye-filling. Other song picturisations (by Ganesh Acharya and Rahul-Sanjeev) are okay. Vijay Narayan Gawande’s background music is just about passable. Madhu S. Rao’s camerawork is ordinary. Action and stunt scenes have been choreographed well by Abbas Ali Moghul and Moses Fernandes. Rahul Bhatankar’s editing is okay.
On the whole, Surya is a poor fare which will flop at the box-office.
Released on 6-1-’23 at Jai Hind Mukta A2 (daily 1 show) and other cinemas of Bombay thru AA Films. Publicity: so-so. Opening: dull.