#UmamaheswaraUgraRoopasya is a remake with a soul (as @baradwajrangan) said. So how do you sustain a soul? You can do it only when you find another suitable body and @ActorSatyaDev is that one fine vessel that shines. Here are some details that I loved apart from the known story.

I have always wondered if I can find any film maker who starts his film with a proper track not just bgm other than Mani Ratnam, and @mahaisnotanoun did it neatly. The light hearted song did what it's supposed to do - set up characters in 3 mins instead of taking 30 mins. Neat.

There are some extremely tiny things in the film that @mahaisnotanoun got right - say the bride turning her head sideways when the photographer is capturing the moment or a neighborhood aunty wearing a dupatta over a nightie - things that bring the film closer to the realism.

The scene I liked the most is Swathi's introduction as a child. The moment when she takes the whole money Mahesh has collected & donates it as hers, we know the type of human she is. There's also a way forward point when Jyothi reveals what she did with the money late to confirm.

The chain reaction of the fight is interestingly adapted. When two people fighting stopped on listening to Jana Gana Mana or when a Natu vydyam doctor failed to call his sister as he run out of recharge, I literally was in Araku, experiencing these people & their lives directly.

To act humiliated isn't easy. A dialogue in the film says that a person can get anything right only with technique and emotion. @ActorSatyaDev got both of them right in the scene when he's beaten. There was technique in his body language and there was emotion in his helplessness.

Something as simple as 'Odilestunnava' or @ActorSuhas not knowing where a particular jaadi is, since he's a new apprentice might go unnoticed, but on a whole they made the film what it is. I'd take a moment to talk about Ravindra Vijay (the father) & how he landed the film.

I have always wondered why TFI directors have issues with casting darker shaded women until @mahaisnotanoun occurred. Not only did he cast these indigenous women, but he didn't try to make them look extravagantly good even against an established actor like Satyadev. Thanking you.

Roopa Koduvayur is my actress find of the year. The inclusion of a flash mob to display her dance skills, her desire to live in the moment & her contrast with Swathi is terrific! Even the use of Swathi and Jyothi magazines to reflect Mahesh's mindset is as good as it can get.

The only thing that I couldn't entirely absorb is the usage of churches, Dubai immigrants and Christianity. While it was local to Kerala, Araku didn't seem like a place where things like these happen. So these elements felt as if they're borrowed from Malayalam culture.

Acc to the subject, no man can raise his hand without a cause after enduring the pain - the film had @ActorSatyaDev also portray that an average man doesn't have the courage to raise his hand until he's humiliated. It is simple but also complex in it's characters & details.