What happens when someone offers you a 2 days old biriyani when you have been fed starch rice all your life? You love the biriyani so much that you give 10/10 rating. This is the case with the Kannada film industry. All the super stars are busy acting in remakes and originals where they are always portrayed as gods. When such things happen, a little off track feels like some fresh air.
The film has really good cinematography and above average music (Loved the 'Ee sanjege aa bananu..' by the same music director Charan). The opening credit music was really good and so were all the songs but there is a similarity in Charan's music and I don't find him going out into any uncomfortable zones. It's good, but it's very similar and very heard of.
The acting is very average. Rishi is just Rishi. I watched this film for him and Hemanth Rao (who co-wrote a much appreciated 'Andhadhun').
The story is very known. I couldn't find anything valuable in the story to feel it any different from films I see. Yes, the direction is good. But not the story. The first half is very bland. So is the second half except for one major twist. Then another final twist - The final twist which should have made me go 'Oh wow' or for that matter any reaction, I couldn't give one because that twist was completely unnecessary for a writer like Hemanth (others can try that, Hemanth shouldn't have). A very average story. The screenplay was above average though and would have been good if it weren't for the unnecessary songs. It's a thriller cum suspense drama. Please keep it that way.
When there is a movie based on more dialogues than actions, the dialogues need to be crisp and real, not creative or filmy or literature-ish. I personally felt there was a lot of talking. As the film reached it's climax, I felt the characteristics of the character played by Rishi had changed suddenly. There was no escalation to reach the final scenes in terms of his characteristics to such an extent. Unfortunately Roshni Prakash is like every female 'lead' in any Kannada film. She is just made to be there. All she had to do was be teary eyed,at all times, could have given her a little more to act - it looked like she could do more.
I don't watch Kannada films of super stars because they are all the same. The last Kannada film I watched was 'Rajaratha' (which was horrible by the way) because Bhandary's first was quite OK. If such films also tame me with similar stories, am scared of not knowing Kannada films at all.
For some reason, while reaching the climax of the film, I remembered Shankar Nag's 'Accident'.
The film has really good cinematography and above average music (Loved the 'Ee sanjege aa bananu..' by the same music director Charan). The opening credit music was really good and so were all the songs but there is a similarity in Charan's music and I don't find him going out into any uncomfortable zones. It's good, but it's very similar and very heard of.
The acting is very average. Rishi is just Rishi. I watched this film for him and Hemanth Rao (who co-wrote a much appreciated 'Andhadhun').
The story is very known. I couldn't find anything valuable in the story to feel it any different from films I see. Yes, the direction is good. But not the story. The first half is very bland. So is the second half except for one major twist. Then another final twist - The final twist which should have made me go 'Oh wow' or for that matter any reaction, I couldn't give one because that twist was completely unnecessary for a writer like Hemanth (others can try that, Hemanth shouldn't have). A very average story. The screenplay was above average though and would have been good if it weren't for the unnecessary songs. It's a thriller cum suspense drama. Please keep it that way.
When there is a movie based on more dialogues than actions, the dialogues need to be crisp and real, not creative or filmy or literature-ish. I personally felt there was a lot of talking. As the film reached it's climax, I felt the characteristics of the character played by Rishi had changed suddenly. There was no escalation to reach the final scenes in terms of his characteristics to such an extent. Unfortunately Roshni Prakash is like every female 'lead' in any Kannada film. She is just made to be there. All she had to do was be teary eyed,at all times, could have given her a little more to act - it looked like she could do more.
I don't watch Kannada films of super stars because they are all the same. The last Kannada film I watched was 'Rajaratha' (which was horrible by the way) because Bhandary's first was quite OK. If such films also tame me with similar stories, am scared of not knowing Kannada films at all.
For some reason, while reaching the climax of the film, I remembered Shankar Nag's 'Accident'.