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Excellent watch. This flick is witty, smart, charming, adventurous and hilarious. This movie has it's flaws and plot holes but I loved it irrespectively from the opening scene to the credit rolled.
A must watch, as Rakshith mentioned in one of the interview's this is a beginning of a genre in Kannada industry.
Very happy to see our very own Kannada industry is progressing so well and exploring uncharted waters. This is what our industry needs to make sure kannada movies get the trademark status in the future.
Come on.. Some more of it.
My rating - 7.5/10.
Don't get me wrong by the rating. I loved the movie.. But this is not a perfect movie and if I start watering down I see some narrative gaps (I will talk about these in below extended review) hence 7.5 rating rather than an 8.5
Extended Review(Spoilers included!!!!!) I have a habit of nitpicking read this further ONLY ONLY if you liked the movie so much and wants to know how to make it perfect :
Every other review is talking about how good this movie is so let me mainly talk about the issues i found with the movie that does include spoilers.
Issue 1) The hero is introduced 2 times in the movie. Which could have been totally avoided. This drags the 1st act a bit longer and frankly speaking makes it a little boring as well, If done right they could have easily cut down 10mins of run time here. I think this is the weakest part in the movie.
Hero makes an entry in and bashes some goons..this is the 2st entry.. All looks good and then in next 10 mins there is another very similar fight scene in the bar, this almost reintroduces the hero on to the big screen. It looks like the script could not decide which entry to keep for the hero.
Here is what could have made it better.. Avoid the 1st entry all together, Open the Hero introduction with those 4 goons entering bar with handcuffs, Ofcourse this will make Rakshith lose that mass entry he makes.. But it keep the story free flowing and as far as the fighting and mass scenes are considered, Hero will get it anyways in next 10 mins when the goons of Jayaram enters the bar.
Issue 2) The movie spends 1st 15mins with the prologue (finest part of the movie) but just 20 mins later the hero gives an expedition scene explaining the whole thing again. I mean it was totally unnecessary. Audiences just saw the whole thing no need for the expedition scene, I was knocked out during this scene and found it dragging and boring.
Remember all these things happen in 1st act hence I feel that is the weakest part in the movie.
Once the 2nd act kicks in, where the Hero enters the Aadhira fort there is no turning back. Script is free flowing untill post interval, this is where i have the next issue.
Issue 3) Band master shocking scene in 2nd half. Hero tries to recreate the exact scenario on which the band master became insane and to do this director spends almost 15mins setting up the scene where the hero has to trap 6 goons of Jayram and force Jayram to shoot them, in an exact manner to the prologue scenario. My problem lies here, even after doing all that the band master do not recall his memory or sanity and 10 mins later in the run time the hero catches band master when he is running away from fort. And further into the movie, bandmaster ends up getting his memory back and even with the right memory he does not add any input to the quest of either hero or the villain, so what I mean is the whole attempt by Hero to make band master get his memory has failed and the yet hero manages to crack the quest using the sentence bandmaster was saying eveytime he hears a gun shot even when he was insane, so what was the need of the whole 20-25mins scene in end of 2nd act to try and get the memory of bandmaster back as once he is cought by Jayram again even when sane he has no input to give to Jayram about the treasure.
I think a small fix to this problem could be, let the scenes play out as is, and in the climax instead of heroine saying "I will help u find treasure if you let these people go", It should have been the band master saying that, because it makes total sense.. he got his sanity and memory back and he now knows the damage that him and his friends has inflicted on the families and want redemption. This also gives weightage to all the earlier scenes as mentioned where hero is trying to get the sanity back of bandmaster.
Now it just feels like all those scenes were a waste as it adds no path for story progression.
Issue 4) How did the hero escape from the buring castle in the climax. ? Director gives hero 2 introductions, spends time on unnecessary expedition scenes of the stuffs already shown to audience
but in the climax at the most crucial time he decides to cut the important scene to show how hero who is moments away from death escapes and also manges to save tukkaram ??
Come on you got to be kidding me. I understand the director talks about the escape explicitly when he shows hero coming along with the 4 boys from bar, it is for audience to understand that those 4 boys saved the hero.
I have an issue here : just before the climactic fight these 4 boys saved hero from the grave and told clearly "you saved us, now we saved you and we are even". So if that case why would they go back and save him again ?
It just creates a narrative confusion, let's say they did on good will then also the castle is BURNING to the ground how did they escape ?????
Instead of spending runtime on unwanted scenes the director should have shown this atleast in a 30 seconds scene.
Yeah these were the issues I found with the movie, mostly all narrative ones, which 95% of the audience will not even notice and will enjoy the movie, the way it should be enjoyed.
I have noticed this issues coz I loved the concept, presentation, acting, antagonist but at the end I could not give this movie more that 7.5 rating why ??? What stopped this movie from getting a perfect 10 ?
These thoughts propelled me to break down the movie and think about it's flaws and suitable fixes for the same according to me.
This does not mean I didn't enjoy the movie. It was super fun.
If someone is reading this to the very end. Just want to say thank you for your time :)
score 8/10
vinayk41 2 January 2020
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