Casting : Naga Chaitanya, Sai Pallavi, Prakash Belawadi, Divya Pillai, Rao Ramesh, Karunakaran, Babloo Prithiveeraj, Kalpa Latha, Kalyani Natarajan, Parvateesam, Mahesh Achanta, Kishore Raju Vasishta, Mine Gopi, Aadukalam Naren
Directed By : Chandoo Mondeti
Music By : Devi Sri Prasad
Produced By : Geetha Arts – Allu Aravind, Bunny Vas
Naga Chaitanya is engaged in the fishing business. Since there is no life guarantee for those who go to sea for fishing, the heroine Sai Pallavi does not want her lover to go to sea to fish. So, she tells him to give up the fishing business. Naga Chaitanya goes to fish despite the heroine’s words. Then he and the fishermen who went with him enter the Pakistani border, and the Pakistani navy arrests them. On the other hand, Sai Pallavi is getting married to someone else. Has Naga Chaitanya been released from a Pakistani prison? Did he marry Sai Pallavi? ‘Thandel’ is the answer to these questions by combining real events and imagination.
Naga Chaitanya, who completely transforms himself for the role of a fisherman, has acted well in many transformations. Melting for love, standing up for the fishermen when there is a problem, showing action in scenes expressing patriotism in a Pakistani prison, etc., are all done in a way that does justice to his work throughout the film.
Sai Pallavi, who melts for love but decides to abandon her lover who did not listen to her, fights to save the same lover and solves the problems of the fishermen families from the place of the lover, attracting attention by walking alongside the hero.
Along with Telugu cinema faces like Prakash Belavadi, Divya Pillai, Rao Ramesh, Tamil cinema faces like Karunakaran, Aadukalam Naren, Bablu Prithviraj, and Mime Gopi, they have done the job given flawlessly.
Cinematographer Shyam Dutt has presented the song scenes magnificently. At the same time, the sea scenes are clearly animated and raise the question of whether the hero’s coastal village and the sea are there.
The songs and background music, composed by Devi Sri Prasad, have added great strength to the film.
Based on a true story written by Karthik Theeda, Sandhu Mondeti has written and directed the screenplay, adding more imagination than reality.
Although the main focus of the screenplay is the problems faced by fishermen going fishing from Andhra Pradesh to Gujarat and their being trapped on the Pakistani border and imprisoned by the Pakistani navy, the film’s major weakness is that it is not told closely to the truth, but is told entirely in a cinematic manner and with the hero in the foreground.
Director Sandhu Mondeti, who has tried to express patriotism through those scenes rather than the problems experienced by Indian prisoners in Pakistani jails, mixes too much commercial spice and irritates the eyes of the audience.
