You could call me a critic, a sadist who really likes to pass satirical comments on everything he watches or reads, but thats the way I am - I criticise, so here I go again on my criticising spree.
THe details of style were given in the other reviews, so I am not going into those details. A month before the movie was released, I was waiting to get my hands on the tickets. Prabhu deva and Lawrence in a movie! What more could you ask! well I soon found out I asked for more. THe movie was released and as you know within a week all movie tickets in Andhra pradesh are sky high. At prasad’s it costed me 100 bucks. But no matter! I bought two, for my cousin and myself. And guess what! I ran off the theatre in 30 minutes.
The starting was humble with all handicapped children playing in the background. I thought it might be a sentimental movie. Then came each character. Kamilini was very much the dumbo with the expression in her face and her dialogues not matching. She seriously has to know the language. Her acting was like that of those low class dramas - where overaction and underaction are preferred to action. Then came prabhu deva. well he is a seasoned actor so he should know how to act. But he does a mediocre job.
Prabhu deva’s dance is good, but it only shows off his dancing skills and it doesnt match the song.
And then were the introductions of the villians like anthony etc. Well these guys were good dancers but the way they were doing it, it looked they were more suited for being villians. Now dancers exercise for fragility , but they dont BODY BUILD! these guys were body builders. So you dont see the flexibility needed. Its like you are asking a bull to do break dance. Dancing should be seamless, where one step and the other mix but here all this guy was doing was mixing up all body building positions and doing it fast, and so you got ’’dance’’. Kind of looks like the idea of extinguishing the cigerette giving rise to a dance step.
So that was them, and then came lawrence. OH MY GOD! now seriously since when has a mass dance been called a folk dance? he is asked to do a folk dance and our hero goes all about giving all those mass steps. My head started spinning and my stomach started churning.
Ok. so maybe it could get better. Better? of course it got better . The worst just got better! Then came our couple, charmi and then raja. Now this was the breaking point. Raja did a small step. The whole body turned sideways followed by a head turn. That did it. If this was dancing - I am a break dancer, and my dhobi is a folk dancer.
I dashed out. Ran out. I couldnt screem for loss of prestige, but I anyhow dashed off the place, and I vowed never ever to watch movies until I have a word of mouth approval from someone.
If you are planning to watch this movie in a theatre or on CD, then watch out! If you are going to watch it when you girl friend dumps you or you have got bad marks in some exam, then I tell you, you’ll jump off the building and commit suicide. I might have done that, but I have no girl friend and I dont study anymore THANK GOD!