Looked like the actors were merely playing a part for which they were being given a paycheck for rather than actually portraying the characters' true selves. Most of the scenes were clichéd, painfully in-the-face and lacking in conviction.
Raghavendra Rao succeeded on both counts with Annamayya, but with this one it looks like he has made an amalgamation of sub-plots & side-characters which do not piece together to make it whole. Apart from getting a solid cast & crew together, the director has to deal with the complexity of bringing the characters to life as well as depicting a credible picture of the world at that time in history. The life and times of Shirdi Sai Baba of Nashik is not an easy subject to make a movie on, I will give you that.
The former was merely watchable while the latter isn't. But then, he thought that he had already mastered the art of making period films and made a couple more - Sri Ramadasu and Shirdi Sai. Raghavendra Rao should have stopped with Annamayya.
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