Cinematographer Sathyan Sooryan is overwhelmed with the response to his work for the Telugu film Dasara. Sathyan’s first Telugu film was the Y S Rajasekhara Reddy biopic Yatra and he worked on the recent Ravi Teja starrer Rama Rao On Duty. “The ‘Ori Vaari’ song takes place at night amid coal mine workers and I knew I had to use …
Telugu superstar Nani’s much-awaited film Dasara is finally in theatres. Produced by Sudhakar Cherukuri and Srikanth Chundi and directed by debutant Odella Srikanth, the film also stars Keerthy Suresh, Dheekshith Shetty, Shine Tom Chacko, Samuthirakani and Sai Kumar in key roles. While KGF revolved around gold mines, Dasara’s introduction scene establishes that the film is based in a village where …
Dasara, written and directed by first-timer Srikanth Odela,ventures into a space that mainstream Telugu films do not often dare to. It tries to be a ‘massy’ Telugu film that explores the ugly caste politics in a semi-fictional story set in the coal-laden hamlet Veerlapally, Telangana, with earnestness, and achieves this balance reasonably well. Dasara is also in a zone similar …